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SpanishUK. MP fights frozen pensions policy
Sir Peter Bottomley, a Conservative MP for Worthing West, has tabled an early day motion against government rules which dictate a freeze of some expat state pensions.
The Department for Work and Pensions introduced rules in March that restrict the state pension annual increases in cases where the beneficiary is not ordinarily resident in Great Britain.
Currently the majority of pensioners living in the UK have their state pension increased according to the triple-lock principle, meaning it is by a minimum of 2.5 per cent, the rate of inflation, or average earnings growth, whichever is the highest.
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