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State Retirement Pensions: Australia and Canada

Asked by Neil Duncan-JordanLabourDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 9 January 2025UIN 21551

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people with a frozen overseas state pension live in (a) Canada and (b) Australia.

Answered by Emma Reynolds

Data on State Pension caseloads that are not uprated overseas are published and this can be found on Stat-Xplore. Users can log in or access Stat-Xplore as a guest user and, if needed, can access guidance on how to extract the information required.

As of the quarter ending May 2024, the number of individuals with an overseas state pension that live in a) Canada are 110,860 and b) Australia are 203,699.

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