End the unfair frozen overseas pension policy

An appeal launched by campaign group the International Consortium of British Pensioners on the Government’s e-petitions website last year will become eligible for discussion in the House of Commons if it reaches 100,000 signatures by September 8th 2012.

Under current British Government rules, Britons in Europe, America and a many other countries receive a yearly cost-of-living increase to their pensions. In many other countries expat Brits have their pensions frozen as soon as they start receiving them.

Tony Bockman, chairman of the ICBP, said to the Daily Telegraph today, “It's time to ask all overseas recipients of the British state pension to understand that if we are ever going to get the Government to pay attention to the frozen pensions issue, then everyone needs to get involved.“

That's not just the current 550,000 plus pensioners overseas whose pensions are already frozen, but all of you who are not yet of pensionable age but might qualify for a state pension later on.

To sign the petition please follow the link:

https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/16387/signature/new

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