Change to UK pensions procedure?
Oct 30th 2013 | 11:42 pm
#16
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Re: Change to UK pensions procedure?
I have received Military pension for nearly 20 years and never had any such letter but then I am only 60. I believe age may be a factor and any contacts i.e. address changes etc which they may use as proof you are living.
A friend of mine who lives in Spain but has a very elderly mother in UK in care. She realised as a result of dealing with council re her mothers care that her mother had not been receiving her widows fire service pension for some years, this turned out to be because a letter had been sent to an old address and never responded to. They did of course once sorted pay back all monies owed.
A friend of mine who lives in Spain but has a very elderly mother in UK in care. She realised as a result of dealing with council re her mothers care that her mother had not been receiving her widows fire service pension for some years, this turned out to be because a letter had been sent to an old address and never responded to. They did of course once sorted pay back all monies owed.
Oct 31st 2013 | 5:13 am
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Re: Change to UK pensions procedure?
You are probably right Lynn. It's great isn't it as you get older they complicate matters, so long as payments keep going in that's the main thing!
Oct 31st 2013 | 5:21 am
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Re: Change to UK pensions procedure?
Can't see age being a factor, I'm 53, and in receipt of a military pension for just 4 years - pretty certain it due to living abroad.......
Oct 31st 2013 | 5:52 am
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Re: Change to UK pensions procedure?
Yes as Lynn said that is probably the case when living out of UK but I believe it is a factor in UK or was as I remember some old boys at a reunion mentioning they had received the letters.
Nov 1st 2013 | 2:15 am
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Re: Change to UK pensions procedure?
You haven't read my post, there are two forms mentioned in there, one for the bank codes and one wanting to check you are still alive.
I beg to differ Fred with what you say about the life check, both my husband and myself get an are you still alive form every single year, this is also true for each and every expat that we know here, so is not random at all.
I beg to differ Fred with what you say about the life check, both my husband and myself get an are you still alive form every single year, this is also true for each and every expat that we know here, so is not random at all.
It IS random-I phoned DWP some time ago, as a neighbour who had not received the requests sent twice by them had had his state pension stopped.
They stated that not everyone receives them, and confirmed that none had been sent to me(I was worried that they had sent them and been lost in the post)
Bit worrying if they have to check that you and every ex pat you know are alive every year!
Nov 1st 2013 | 4:24 am
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Re: Change to UK pensions procedure?
Maybe where you are taxed makes a difference to getting the form or not, we are both Spanish tax resident and pay tax on our state pension here, but we both are obliged to pay tax in the UK on a pension we receive there.
Nov 1st 2013 | 11:55 am
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Re: Change to UK pensions procedure?
It is what happens here and I'm not in the least bit worried by it, it stops those who would cheat the system by not reporting the death of a spouse.
Maybe where you are taxed makes a difference to getting the form or not, we are both Spanish tax resident and pay tax on our state pension here, but we both are obliged to pay tax in the UK on a pension we receive there.
Maybe where you are taxed makes a difference to getting the form or not, we are both Spanish tax resident and pay tax on our state pension here, but we both are obliged to pay tax in the UK on a pension we receive there.
AFAIK the UK still hasn't closed the (Day of the) Jackal loop hole and cross referenced deaths with births.
