Pensions, whether private, workplace or state, are essential to the retirement planning of UK expats all over the world, whether they live as close to the UK as the Netherlands or Norway or as far away as Grand Cayman or the Grand Canyon.
However, around half a million British expats suffer a pensions shortfall of as much as £4,000 a year simply because they have chosen to live in a country or region without a reciprocal agreement with the UK and their pensions have been frozen.
Many of them feel it is unfair that they have no choice but to live on a lesser income or to take steps to redress the situation by consulting their expat financial advisers for inventive solutions. But, things may be about to change as MPs have created a parliamentary alliance to change the expat pensions law.