Millions of people claiming their state pension will receive a boost this week after it rose by 8.5 per cent on Monday, April 8.
Those on the full new state pension can expect an annual increase of £902, while those on the full basic state pension will see a rise of £692.
Twelve million state pensioners in the UK are expected to benefit from the pension increases. However, many will miss out due to not qualifying for payment increases.
Here’s who and why:
Who won't get the new state pension rates this week?
Nearly 500,000 older people will not qualify for any payment increases — even if they have accrued the required National Insurance contributions before retirement.
Those in this category will have retired abroad and live in a country that does not have a reciprocal agreement with the UK Government. This means some retirees have seen their state pensions frozen when they emigrated.
The "End Frozen Pensions" campaign aims to end the “injustice of pensions for Britons who have moved abroad” who do not receive the annual increase in line with the triple lock policy.
"Anne is 98. She served in the Second World War and worked in the UK up until the age of 76," the campaign's website says.
"She paid her National Insurance in full. But the British Government now thanks her with the indignity of a ‘frozen’ pension. Anne’s pension was ‘frozen’ at £72.50 per week when she left the UK for Canada to be closer to her daughter and grandchildren.
"Her pension doesn’t increase in line with inflation so it falls in real value year-on-year. If she had stayed in the UK she would be getting £156.20 per week."
The International Consortium of British Pensioners runs the campaign for about 450,000 Britons affected by ‘frozen pensions’.
It also has parliamentary backing and support, from MPs including Scottish Lib Dem MPs Wendy Chamberlain and Alistair Carmichael; Scottish National Party (SNP) MPs Martyn Day and Ian Blackford; Alba MPs Neale Hanvey and Kenny MacAskill; and several Labour and Conservative MPs.
