@Ian **********

The state pension should be seen as a right not a benefit because comparing it to welfare payments "drives pensioners up the wall", a minister has said. You can call it whatever you want. If you want to call it a benefit, well it is 40+ years of deductions from your, as in my case 42 years of compulsory deductions from my salary. Using the word benefit for state pension should be worded as "Payments deductible to benefit you after retirement".

@Ian **********

You've been watching too much media propaganda. Here in the UK your State pension IS NOT OFFICIALLY A BENEFIT. It's a government insurance policy that you have compulsory paid into throughout your working life. So your analogy then private pensions, which is the same only you pay into private pensions schemes as opposed to a government pension scheme, then are a benefit.

@Nick ******

Not be frozen, but you just won't get any increases, 🤔 does that mean it has thawed, but you still won't get the annual increase 🧐 😂 😂 😂

@John *********

correct john

@John *********

I wonder John how many expats on frozen pensions contact MPs? I'm in the UK with intetions of returning to see my days out in Thailand, but I keep on at my MP now and the previous one before the G.E. here. Apparently there are some MPs who are against the frozen pension debacle, but from what I gather it's more the hierarchy of civil servants that keep blocking any new discussions on this discrimination going forward. Have to keep grinding away at the politicians.

@Jenny *****

Well Jenny I don't know about in Australia, but in the UK your State pension isn't a benefit, it's a right that you paid into, in my case for 42 years.

@David *******

Fat chance of that.

There's loads of pensioners I believe living overseas and because of the frozen pension discrimination they don't tell the DWP they are moving and use relatives addresses in the UK as their permanent place of abode, therefore getting the pension increase every year. You have to live in the UK for at least 181 days to be classed as resident, but no one only you know if you fulfill that requirement. The frozen pension debacle is unjust to put it mildly. I have been complaining for years to my MPs about this but successive Governments just bury their heads in the sand when you try get this discrimination cancelled. I've had two different MPs after the last election. Emailed both of them on this, but both not interested, only interested in their own selfish agendas and both of them were/are Liebour MPs. You'd of thought they'd be more in touch with the immorality of this discrimination, but as with most MPs the only time they're interested in voters is before an election, after that as far as they are concerned to can swivel.

@Lena ******

You can get insurance for motorbikes and or car that cover you for hospitalisation if you get injured. You don't need health insurance