House debates

Tuesday, 7 August 2007

Notices

Photo of David FawcettDavid Fawcett (Wakefield, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)
notes that:
(a)
over 242,000 British pensioners living in Australia have their pensions frozen in value and thus not increased when the pensions in the United Kingdom (UK) receive annual increases; and
(b)
this practice of freezing these pensions is wholly unfair and discriminatory: many UK pensioners living overseas do have their pensions increased annually, as expected, given their lifelong mandatory payments into the national UK scheme and in contrast, Australia fully indexes the pensions of its expatriate pensioners living in the UK;

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