I've just discovered that the UK pension age is now 66 for people born after a certain date - in my case between 1954-1960. There are also plans to increase the date even further because people are living longer and eventually that age will be 68.

Anyway, there are some handy HMRC pages available for showing your state pension, any shortfall and how much you would need to pay to bring the weekly amount to £175.20.

Also here's a guide state pension age timetables.

https://assets.publishing.serv…/310231/spa-timetable.pdf

UK state pension age increases to 66 – and is set to rise further

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Pretty sure as long as I stay here I'll get bugger all anyway.

That isn't true.

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You can receive your UK State Pension when you are living overseas. If you move overseas after you have started to receive your State Pension, and payment is made directly into your bank or building society, the payments can continue, but you should let the pension service know when you are going to leave the UK.

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https://www.gov.uk/state-pension-if-you-retire-abroad

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Really?

Claim State Pension abroad

You can claim State Pension abroad if you’ve paid enough UK National Insurance contributions to qualify.

Get a State Pension forecast if you need to find out how much State Pension you may get.

It shouldn't affect you or me UK Man or people born between certain dates (50s and 60s for example) because they are now calculating later birthdays due to people living longer.

Mine is due in June 2023 and £700 (the maximum) per month would certainly come in handy down here.

The sensible move is having it paid into a UK bank account in GBP and then doing transfers as you wish. To Western Union for example.

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That's an idea.

Asked the Gov UK site several times for an access code to be sent to my mobile but had nowt sent yet. Might be because it's the weekend or to do with the coviI

I could never get an SMS from them, so I used Google Authenticatorfor two factor authorisation.