Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed there will be a 10.1 percent rise to the state pension from April 2023, as the triple lock returns. The news has been welcomed by many older Britons, but not all state pensioners can expect to obtain the increase.

• The UK
• European Economic Area (EEA)
• Gibraltar
• Switzerland

Countries with a social security agreement with the UK (but not Canada or New Zealand).

Those who live outside of these countries will not get a yearly increase, and are set to miss out on the 10.1 percent boost expected in April 2023.

The issue is commonly referred to as a ‘frozen’ state pension, and those affected as ‘frozen pensioners’.

This is because these individuals will see their state pension halted at the value it was when they decided to leave an eligible area.

Recently, Margaret Ferrier, independent MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, pressed the Government on the issue as it relates to those who have served in the armed forces.

She asked: “What conversations has the minister had with his colleagues at the DWP and MoD about providing support to the 60,000 British military veterans with frozen pensions?

“They live in countries which do not have a reciprocal uprating agreement with the UK.”

Johnny Mercer, minister for veterans affairs, replied: “I regularly have conversations with ministers in the DWP and the MoD about the issue around pensions.

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