UK Pensions in Thailand losing up to 20,160 baht a year

After months of campaigning, the UK government has just responded this week to the thousands of UK overseas pensioners, stating they are not willing to fork out an estimated £0.6 billion a year.

Many of the UK retirees living in Thailand signed the UK Government petition regarding UK pensions being indexed. This issue ,in a nutshell, is that UK-based pensioners received a sizable increase to keep pace with inflation, and so did expats in various countries including Spain and the Philippines.

But not if they were expats in Thailand, which seemed very unfair to many. So someone started an official UK Government petition a few months ago.

Having reached over 10,000 signatures recently, t meant the UK government had to respond.

Here is their official response received this week…

The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “Give U.K. pensioners living abroad…