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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sam Barker

State pensioners say ‘cruel postcode lottery' means 500,000 miss out on 10.1% boost

State pensioners are protesting a policy which means 500,000 miss out on a 10.1% increase to the retirement benefit next year.

The state pension will rise by this figure next April after an announcement from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his Autumn Statement last week.

But many British expats living overseas miss out on these annual state pension increases due to an issue called the frozen pensions policy.

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