Nearly half a million older people set to miss out on annual State Pension pay rise next April
dailyrecord.co.ukA 99-year-old Second World War veteran who travelled 4,400 miles to talk to the Prime Minister about the ‘frozen’ State Pension scandal said she was “bitterly disappointed” Sir Keir Starmer did not meet her.
Anne Puckridge is among nearly half a million UK State Pensioners whose retirement pots have been frozen at the level they were when they left the country, rather than being uprated annually in line with payments for those who remain in Britain.
Mrs Puckridge, who served in an air defence unit and decoded messages as an officer in the Women’s Royal Indian Naval Service during the war, currently receives £72.50 a week Basic State Pension instead of the £169.50 she would be entitled to if she had remained in the UK.
She emigrated to Canada to be near her family in 2001, but lived and worked in the UK until the age of 76, paying all her taxes, including National Insurance.
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