@Lee **********

By the way, the freezing of some pensioners pensions but not others is discrimination all day long. I've sent numerous emails to politicians about this and also been in contact with the ICBP, (International Consortium of British Pensioners) on this subject. Also had a to and fro., with a Minister named Guy Oppenmer about this, but falls on deaf ears. In my opinion if you've paid in all your working life you should all be entitled to the annual increase, or nobody living overseas should. Also in my opinion for what it's worth, the triple lock should only be paid to people who only have their state pension as income. Anyone who has other private pensions should get only the 2.5% increase every years regardless.

@Lee **********

A few years back and for three years after the UK left the EU, British pensioners living anywhere in the EU got the annual pension increase. There's probably thousands living outside the UK that are using relatives addresses in the UK and not declaring that they live overseas. Hypocrisy to slack people off for using agents and maybe on the fiddle themselves some of them.

@Lee **********

yes, they'd freeze your pension. I find it ironic that there are some expats that have a problem with guys that can support themselves, but do not have the financial requirements to obtain an 'O' visa extension, but maybe some of the guys that ridicule them are getting the annual pension increase on the fiddle.

@Stuart **********

god some expats have blinkered eyes, agents make part of their living from servicing visa extensions.

@Sue *********

I stayed in Thailand for eleven years previously without applying for non immigrant visas or extensions. Those were the good old days.

@Brook *******

2.5% on 800k gives you 20k THB a year, that'll nearly pay for an agent to do your visa, saving you all the headache of doing it yourself. Waiting now with bated breath for all the replies from the righteous expats who seem to have a problem with guys using an agent.

@Brook *******

If your from the UK., the DWP., which is the government dept., that pays your pension, if you give them details of a foreign bank they'll pay your pension into that account. You don't need to transfer it from a bank in the UK.

@Stuart **********

Well there must be thousands of IO's in jail 😂