Laurence Robertson – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Laurence Robertson on 2015-10-09.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take greater steps to help UK nationals access pensions which have been earned abroad.

Priti Patel

The UK already participates in a comprehensive EU-level system of regulations which allows people to claim their state pension from every EEA country they have lived or worked in.

There are further international agreements with countries outside the EEA and taken together with the UK’s own bilateral social security agreements, the large majority of people are covered for claims to state pension earned abroad.