Frozen pensions abroad: UK war veteran says she lost out on £50,000

Anne Puckridge says her UK basic state pension is frozen at the 2001 level of £72.50. Photograph: End Frozen Pensions

This weekend, a few weeks before her 100th birthday, a former wartime intelligence officer will set off on a new mission: to meet with the UK pensions minister and persuade her to end an “injustice”.

Anne Puckridge is travelling 4,400 miles from her home in Canada to ask the UK government to change rules that campaigners say penalise almost half a million pensioners living overseas and leave many struggling financially.