What do you mean?
Many Brits on here will receive a Japanese pension and a UK state pension after making voluntary NI contributions.
What do you mean?
Don't really need that, just a national insurance number and three years of residency in the UK. There are people on this forum whose Japanese spouses are contributing to the British state pension.captainspoke wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 2:57 am I wish I could have read a thread like this back in the 90s. It might've been worth picking up british citizenship so as to take advantage of this!
Thx.latebloomer wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 4:03 am Thank you for your response. I am South African and do not qualify (have to be resident) for an old age pension, which is in any case a negligible amount. We both worked for private restaurants for many years which did not have any retirement benefits. So nothing will be coming from that source.(my husband lived and worked in South Africa)
Ah, I see. Yes, need to have lived in the UK / paid national insurance for 3 years in the UK, basically.
Maybe I’m missing something here, but what special Triple Lock applies to your aunt that is not given to UK citizens living elsewhere in the world? I was under the impression the Triple Lock was applied worldwide to the state pension, not just to those residing in certain countries (the USA?)?Wales4rugbyWC23 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 6:16 am
I keep on telling my Aunt who lives in America, who has dual nationality and a national insurance number, she is laughing all the way to the bank because she gets the Triple lock upgrade unlike Brits residing in Canada, Australia or Japan.
Managed to find the answer myself with a bit more Googling - we are talking about the triple lock being applied to “after retirement” increases to the pension here - all citizens globally receive the Triple Lock up until that point.smalldog wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:02 pm
Maybe I’m missing something here, but what special Triple Lock applies to your aunt that is not given to UK citizens living elsewhere in the world? I was under the impression the Triple Lock was applied worldwide to the state pension, not just to those residing in certain countries (the USA?)?
Manifest destiny....smalldog wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:09 pmManaged to find the answer myself with a bit more Googling - we are talking about the triple lock being applied to “after retirement” increases to the pension here - all citizens globally receive the Triple Lock up until that point.smalldog wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 8:02 pm
Maybe I’m missing something here, but what special Triple Lock applies to your aunt that is not given to UK citizens living elsewhere in the world? I was under the impression the Triple Lock was applied worldwide to the state pension, not just to those residing in certain countries (the USA?)?
Any insight why the US is a special outlier in this respect?
https://www.pensionsage.com/pa/500000-B ... p-says.php
It depends on the social security agreement between the two countries.