Petition · past parliament · Department for Work and Pensions

Give 500,000 UK overseas State Pensioners with frozen pensions parity

Closed 5,352 signatures

What the petition asks

Approximately 500,000 of 1.2 million state pension recipients living abroad do not receive increases to their state pension in the same way as other state pension recipients. We want the state pensions of these individuals to be increased to current rates, and to receive annual increases in future.
We believe the need for reciprocal social security agreements has long passed as other countries already pay their pensioners in the UK annual increases. We believe the freezing of UK citizens pensioners is discriminatory, unjust and immoral.

Timeline

24 Aug 2023 Petition opened for signatures
24 Feb 2024 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 5,352
Status Closed
Department Department for Work and Pensions
Opened 24 Aug 2023
Closed 24 Feb 2024

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.