Are you entitled to more UK age pension?
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By Jim Tilley, Hon Chairman, British Pensions in Australia.
If you have worked in the UK and are now of UK pension age, [women 60 men 65], there may be chance of you achieving a part UK age pension or even increasing the part UK age pension you receive. This offer of some additional retirement income is limited to women born after 5 April 1938 and men born after 5 April 1933. If your wish to take advantage of the offer, it ceases on April 5th. 2009. Your claim is required in the UK some weeks before that date.
Such extra retirement income is generally considered as worth having because, in most cases, an extra $100/month income from abroad will reduce a Centrelink pension by just $40, leaving you ahead by least $60/month.
Details of this offer are available from the non profit volunteer association British Pensions in Australia Inc, phone 1300 308 353, or write to BPiA, PO Box 524, Campbelltown, NSW 2560, or visit www.bpia.org.au. Email bpia@people.net.au.
BPiA is working towards achieving annual UK pension indexing by way of an International legal challenge and by political lobbying activities.