Dear EuroCitizen Member,
See below a link to a letter sent by the British Ambassador with respect to the ongoing receipt of UK state pensions.
It is particularly critical for those recipients over 80. If the
requested action is not taken then pension entitlement will be lost, if
only until corrective action is taken (which will be highly
bureaucratic).
Could you please make this known to anyone in your circler who receives such a pension and, particularly the over 80s. We cannot ignore that this represents a particularly vulnerable segment of pensioners.
A quick word on the 4 July general election. First, we will be analysing
the efficacy (or not) of the postal voting arrangements in due course.
Given the likely size of a Labour majority, there is no immediate rush
to do so and time to lobby for some serious improvements. Second, we
will do some analysis of what a change in government will have on
British citizens in the EU. Again this may take a few weeks as new
Ministers are appointed and the new government beds down, with a
Parliamentary recess at the end of this month in any case - albeit
likely to be shorter than usual.
With many thanks
Nigel Aston
