Changes to widows' pension rights are not just a 'Thai Bride' problem

There was an article in one of Thailand's main newspapers last month about what it described as the UK government's attack on foreigners receiving a British state pension while living abroad. Under the headline Thai widows to lose their pensions, attention was drawn to the 2,000 or so women living in Thailand who had British husbands and who would henceforth no longer be able to receive a state pension based on their husband's national insurance record or a widow's pension on the same basis in the event of his death. The article did make it clear that those women already in receipt of...