{"id":51665,"date":"2017-04-12T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-older-expats-facing-poverty-thanks-to-brexit-and-frozen-pensions\/"},"modified":"2017-04-12T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:04:21","slug":"the-older-expats-facing-poverty-thanks-to-brexit-and-frozen-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-older-expats-facing-poverty-thanks-to-brexit-and-frozen-pensions\/","title":{"rendered":"The older expats facing poverty \u2013 thanks to Brexit and frozen pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe fall in the pound\u2019s value coupled with post-EU uncertainty and pension regulations has led to alarm over the plight of many older British expatsAnne Puckridge isn\u2019t scared for her future yet. But thanks to the post-Brexit fall in the value of the pound, that time may soon come.When the 93-year-old second world war veteran and lecturer moved to Canada in 2001, she expected to live in modest comfort on her UK pension. What she hadn\u2019t realised, however, was that pension would be frozen at the amount it was worth at the time she moved to North America at the age of 76. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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