Far harder now.Most require private healthcare. spain does.Different if you are legally working.
You're wrong
You can take the pension, whatever amount, anywhere.I don't have a full state pension as I was not allowed to pay for years before 2016 under the old scheme ,only the 3 after 2016,when the new state pension started, & up to when I drew it.
I once went to look at a place that from the estate agent's blurb looked like a nice little country cottage, but was suspiciously cheap.If they are cheap and haven't sold, I'm afraid there will be a reason.
Is it still the case you don't get cost of living increases in state pension if living abroad ?You're wrong
Ah OK.... I was going on something a few folk had said when I'd spoke about pensions before...I think it was Shrimp that had said something about having pension top up or benefit or something that meant you couldn't get it outside the UK but maybe I misunderstood.Far harder now.Most require private healthcare. spain does.Different if you are legally working.
You're wrong
Apparently that's not the case in Portugal if I read that link posted by gpat correctly
https://www.gov.uk/state-pension-if-you-retire-abroad/rates-of-state-pensionThat only applies in certain countries & none of them in the EU.
there is also a simple way around it if you do live i a country with no increases. You just return to the UK on extended holiday.Notify gov.uk that you are living there The pension rises to the correct level. You can go home again.The amount stays at the level you now leave at.
I think that it only applies to South Africa, maybe Canada(?), if the UK gouvernment has an Bi - Lateral Agreement with a country you will get any increase in pension, certainly the case here in France and probably the rest of europe.
Yes I'm aware I can buy the other 5 years required but having previously discussed it on here the general consensus was as I have 18 years yet before I can claim it there was no point in buying those years now as who knows what's round the corner. If I work again in a job I'm paying tax and ni contributions that 5 years will be paid before I retire. At the minute I can't see me being able to not work a proper job between now and retiring so that part I have put on back burner for now as it's not urgent. Nothing is urgent really but I think I will have to start giving some thought around April/may time if I'm going to buy a flat in Scotland then if I see anything that fits my needs I could have my sister view it on my behalf and buy before I got home ...giving me a base straight away.
It's beautiful... I'd love it . Bit pricey mind but compared to a 500 it's a good buy . Especially if the restoration has been done right.
Just up my streetI once went to look at a place that from the estate agent's blurb looked like a nice little country cottage, but was suspiciously cheap.
Got there to find that immediately to one side was a Truck & Bus Garage, with lots of dead & dying vehicles scattered around, lots of garage noise going on.
To the other side was a pig farm, which stank.
The rear garden backed onto MoD land, which was an artillery range
He's a strange dude , he has a lovely dog a husky with beautiful blue eyes but he just leaves it outside all the time. I'm sure it was out all night too and it was pissin it down last night. I've said hello to him twice now and he's completely blanked me. His dog is forever over at my van door everytime I go outside or we go a walk etc it's there. He's moved his van now to where the Austrians were as they left this morning. He's been tinkering about doing things to the van this afternoon but now he has music on lol and that song came on blaring
I had to Google the lyric deutschland uber alles lol as I never knew it was the national anthem I thought it was something from adolfs time ..
The 126 was smaller with engine in the back , my mates mum had one ... I changed the exhaust on it once and nearly lost a finger lol.
Yeah they were seriously quick for their time. I never had mine long ... I went through cars like socks back in those days .I had a new 131 Miafiori estate in bright fluorescent green.
Really quick and very stylish for its time.
Loved the drive and used to turn a few heads.
But the gearbox always sounded like you were rattling a tin full of nuts when idling
It was the first TAX free car I bought a short while after being posted to Germany in 1976.
I traded it after warranty ran out.
Glad gus-lopez has cleared up Tam 's query about drawing UK pension abroad. What he said is exactly what I understood - you can take whatever state pension you've built up, anywhere in the world. However, there are only certain countries (which includes the whole of the EU) where it remains inflation-linked. So I guess not too much to be concerned about on that score.You're wrong
Greeks really hate the Germans after they made the Greeks put in austerity measures before the EU bailed them out. One of the measures was putting their pension age up from 50.
The thought of Tam in a 126 is very amusing!
The Camping & Caravanning Club is a possibility, work as an assistant in season, and book your ferry to were ever, in the "closed" season.What about being a groundsman on a campsite for the summer. Free pitch, regular money then travel when site closes.
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