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Post by tasjo on May 30, 2017 16:13:15 GMT 7
If a DSPer is traveling to an agreement country (I noticed that Spain is on it) does that mean you dont have to have UP? Is the UK an Agreement Country?
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 16:25:41 GMT 7
If a DSPer is traveling to an agreement country (I noticed that Spain is on it) does that mean you dont have to have UP? Is the UK an Agreement Country? This is what we are trying to determine tasjo. Not sure exactly when but I believe the UK no longer wanted to participate because of savings measures in one of their recent austerity budgets. Below is the list of agreement countries:- Schedule 2—Italy Schedule 3—New Zealand Schedule 4—Canada Schedule 5—Spain Schedule 6—Malta Schedule 7—Netherlands Schedule 8—Ireland Schedule 9—Portugal Schedule 10—Austria Schedule 11—Cyprus Schedule 12—Denmark Schedule 13—United States of America Schedule 14—Germany Schedule 15—Chile Schedule 16—Croatia Schedule 17—Slovenia Schedule 18—Belgium Schedule 19—Norway Schedule 20 — Switzerland Schedule 21 — Republic of Korea Schedule 22 — Hellenic Republic Schedule 23 — Japan Schedule 24 — Republic of Finland Schedule 25 — Republic of Poland Schedule 26 — Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Schedule 27 — Czech Republic Schedule 28 — Slovak Republic Schedule 29 — Republic of Hungary Schedule 30—Republic of Latvia Schedule 31—Republic of India |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2017 17:34:28 GMT 7
"Not sure exactly when but I believe the UK no longer wanted to participate because of savings measures in one of their recent austerity budgets."
Further research indicates the above to be incorrect!
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN01457/SN01457.pdf (copy & paste into browser for download)
Page 8. Published 13 April 2017
The reciprocal agreement with Australia ended in 2001. DWP explains that for people living in or coming to the UK after the agreement ended, the UK Government made special arrangements to allow periods of residence in Australia, up to April 2001, to be taken into account in claims for basic State Pension and bereavement benefits.
The Social Security Agreement between the United Kingdom (UK)and Australia was terminated by Australia and ended on 28
February 2001.
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Post by nomadic on May 30, 2017 18:59:41 GMT 7
I believe that to be the case tasjo. When i was applying for UP years ago i was told you could go a few countries without UP but i thought it was only a handful. Malta and the U.K. the only ones i remember. It was my understanding that you get the local pension though and not the Australian one but that was a long time ago so no guarantee on my memory apart from anything else.
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Post by Banjo on May 30, 2017 19:15:38 GMT 7
The UK is only one way, they can go to Australia, not the other way around.
Strange system, apparently they had a blue a few years back.
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Post by ghostbuster on May 31, 2017 7:04:48 GMT 7
Why is`nt the Philippines on this list?
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Post by Banjo on May 31, 2017 7:27:56 GMT 7
I think that the reason countries like the PI are out of it is that the country of residence pays the pension.
Where the local pension is a fraction of the one in Australia, or non-existent, then that government would be considerably out of pocket on the transaction.
Also, living in the PI is a lot easier for Australians than for Philipinos to live in Australia, subsequently the balance is very one sided.
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Post by ghostbuster on May 31, 2017 7:32:14 GMT 7
Yes totally agree with you Banjo, living in the Philippines is a lot easier than living in Australia.
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Post by Denis-NFA on May 31, 2017 7:35:09 GMT 7
Why is`nt the Philippines on this list? Further to what Banjo says above I can actually tell you that there is an actual prejudice from C/Link hierarchy toward certain countries. Philippines is one. |
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