Dont know if fellow brits know this

[Sal and Jay 2]

I found out that you can be paid your state pension even if you emigrate, you can get a pension forcast here http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/pdfs/ca3638.pdf, thought this might be of interest.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

I found out that you can be paid your state pension even if you emigrate, you can get a pension forcast here http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/pdfs/ca3638.pdf, thought this might be of interest.

Yep and if you have not paid enough NI contributions to get a full UK pension you can ask them to take into account your SSA credits you have earned in the US....

Kez

[Lansbury 19]

I found out that you can be paid your state pension even if you emigrate, you can get a pension forcast here http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/pdfs/ca3638.pdf, thought this might be of interest.

Yep and if you have not paid enough NI contributions to get a full UK pension you can ask them to take into account your SSA credits you have earned in the US....

Kez

Better still if you haven't paid enough SSA credits you can use your UK contributions to top it up. You have to have a minimum of 10 SSA credits to do so. The US pays more than the UK when I looked into it.

Also the UK pension is indexed linked if you live in the US so you get the same increases as those living in the UK.