State pension indexation

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If Brexit does go through, countries in which Brits are discriminated by the UK must include this issue as part of any trade deal negotiation.

jamesd

I didn't but from your first link:

"075782 The actual rate at which RP is frozen will depend upon whether the person 1. is absent from and not ordinarily resident in GB when becoming entitled to RP or 2. is outside GB and stops being ordinarily resident in GB after becoming entitled to RP. Detailed guidance is at DMG 075840 - 075984."

Then:

"075790 The general rules for deciding the rate at which RP is frozen where a person is absent from GB are set out in this paragraph. Where a person is not resident in GB on the first day of entitlement to RP the general rules are at DMG 075791 - 075792. Where a person who is already entitled to RP stops being resident in GB the general rules are at DMG 075794.

Not resident in Great Britain on first day of entitlement Personal benefit - own insurance 075791 Where a person is entitled to RP based on their own insurance the rate of RP is frozen at the rate in force on the first day of entitlement if that person is not ordinarily resident in GB"

On returning:

"Visits to Great Britain 075796 If a person whose rate of RP has been frozen visits GB 1. whilst in GB that person is entitled to the current rate of RP and 2. on again leaving GB the rate of RP reverts to the rate that was paid before the visit to GB1 . 1 R(P) 1/78 075797 A person who returns to GB and becomes ordinarily resident here is entitled to RP at the current rate. If that person later leaves GB then the rate of RP is restricted to the rate that person was receiving in GB. It does not revert to the rate paid when last absent from GB... Example 2 A man left GB to live in South Africa in September 1975. The rate of RP was frozen at £11.60. On 17.9.90 that person left South Africa intending to live permanently in GB. It was accepted that from that date he was ordinarily resident in GB and the rate of RP was increased to £46.90, the rate current at that time. However, in January 1995 that person again decided to live permanently in South Africa and the rate of RP was frozen at £57.60, the rate it was being paid at when that person was last ordinarily resident in GB. "


But:

"075850 ... A person reaches pension age on 20.6.90 but defers entitlement until 20.6.95. That person stops being ordinarily resident in GB on 15.10.93. RP is awarded at the rate set out in the 1995 uprating, the uprating before the first date of entitlement."

That appears to be describing the previous rules so I'm not sure that the document is current.