Retired expats lose pensions discrimination case

Pensioners living abroad have fought an eight-year court battle to stop the Government freezing their state pensions at the level paid when they reached retirement. Some expats are receiving as little as £6 a week, and argued they should be entitled to inflationary pension increases as they had paid into the system during their working lives. However, the ECHR ruled the UK's decision to not index-link pension increases is not discriminatory. The court says those pensioners have chosen to live in societies and economies outside of the UK. "To accept [the] arguments would be to le...