Ray Hyde, 85, receives just £44.15 a week and his wife Estrella gets £26.42 from the UK state pensionRay Hyde was called up at 18 to do National Service and became a “guinea pig” on Christmas Island in the Pacific as part of the UK’s nuclear tests.“For military veterans, it’s more insulting. They served a country which has now frozen their pensions.”
Mr Hyde retired at 70, but only realised his pension had been frozen a couple of years ago, after contacting the lobby group British Pensions in Australia. Instead, the pension remains at the level it was when the claimant was first entitled to it or at the date they left the UK if they were already pensioners.and the US receive the full state pension because reciprocal agreements have been reached between the UK government and those nations to allow them to be uprated.
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