Lord Jones of Cheltenham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Jones of Cheltenham on 2016-03-23.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for those countries and territories in which those in receipt of the UK state pension are subject to the frozen pensions regulations, what is the process necessary to negotiate reciprocal agreements for pensions to be uprated annually.

Baroness Altmann

There are a number of considerations around whether to initiate the negotiation of reciprocal agreements for pensions and other social security benefits. These include reciprocity between the social security systems in the respective countries, the movement of people between the two countries, and the affordability of concluding and administering an agreement.