The full list of FROZEN and UNFROZEN countries

Some people, including politicians, think that all Frozen Pensioners around the world are fighting to get the full British State Retirement Pension, That is not so, We are only asking for our full entitlements ? in accordance with our individual contribution records.

The amount we can expect depends on the number of years we worked in the UK and contributed to the National Insurance Fund (NIF), We are not entitled to the full basic pension unless we contributed throughout our working lives.

All additional pensions such as the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS) are also calculated according to contributions.

Other factors which can affect calculation of your entitlement are more complex.

Everybody gets the same pension for the same contribution, unless they decide to retire overseas, in which case their pension may be frozen, If the pension is frozen, its real value will decrease every year down to 50% or less of the purchasing power of the pension you would get in an indexed country.

for example:

*Frozen*	*Indexed*
Canada	USA
Japan	Germany
New Zealand	Philippines
Where is the logic in it ?

The following is a list of all the Frozen countries
Also see the non frozen countries European Economic Area Member States
and Countries with which the UK has a Reciprocal Agreement indexed annually

Countries where English is an official, or widely spoken, language are shown in Red.

Afghanistan	China	Iraq	Pakistan	South Korea
Albania	Colombia	Japan	Panama	Sri Lanka
Algeria	Congo, Democratic Republic (Zaire)	Jordan	Papua New Guinea	Sri Lanka
Andorra	Cook Islands	Kenya	Paraguay	St Helena & Deps
Anguilla	Costa Rica	Kiribati	Peru	St Lucia
Antigua	Cuba	Kuwait	Puerto Rico	St Martins
Afghanistan	Djibouti	Laos	Qatar	St Vincent and the Grenadines
Albania	Dominican Commonwealth (Dominica )	Lebanon	Rebublic Of Georgia	Sudan
Argentina	Dominican Republic	Lesotho	Republic Of Armenia	Surinam
Ascension Island	Ecuador	Liberia	Republic Of Azerbaijan	Swaziland
Australia	Egypt	Libya	Republic Of Belarus	Syria
The Bahamas	El Salvador	Macau	Republic Of Kazakhstan	Tahiti
Bahrain	Ethiopia	Madagascar	Republic Of Kyrgyzstan	Taiwan
Bangladesh	Falkland Islands + Deps	Malawi	Republic Of Moldovia	Tanzania
Barbuda	Faroe Islands	Malaysia	Republic Of Turkmenistan	Thailand
Belize	Fiji	Maldives	Republic Of Uzbekistan	The Russian Federation
Benin	French Overseas Departments	Mexico	Republic Of Yemen	Togo
Bhutan	The Gambia	Monaco	Rwanda	Tonga
Bolivia	Ghana	Montserrat	Samoa Western	Tours
Botswana	Greenland	Morocco	San Marino	Trinidad and Tobago
Brazil	Grenada	Mozambique	Sarawak	Tunisia
Brunei Darussalam	Guam	Namibia	Sark	Turks & Caicos Islands
Burkina Faso	Guatemala	Nepal	Saudi Arabia	Uganda
Burma	Guinea	Nevis, St Kitts Nevis	Senegal	Ukraine
Cambodia (Kampuchea)	Guyana	New Caledonia	Seychelles	Uruguay
Cameroon	Haiti	New Zealand	Sharjah	Vanuatu
Canada	Honduras	Nicaragua	Sierra Leone	Venezuela
Cape Verde Islands	Hong Kong	Niger	Singapore	Vietnam
Cayman Islands	India	Nigeria	Solomon Islands	Virgin Islands (British)
Central African Republic	Indonesia	Norfolk Island	Somalia	Virgin Islands (USA)
Chile	Iran	Oman	South Africa	Zambia
				Zimbabwe

A Total of 46 unfrozen countries with about 550,000 indexed pensioners uprated annually
plus over 11,000,000 indexed pensioners in the United Kingdom
An overall total of nearly 12,000,000 fully indexed.

Compare that with the 500,000 British State pensioners in countries where they are frozen.

Austria	Malta
Belgium	Netherlands
Bulgaria	Norway
Cyprus	Poland
Denmark	Portugal
Finland	Republic of Estonia
France	Republic of Latvia
Germany	Republic of Lithuania
Gibralter	Republic of Slovenia
Greece	Romania
Hungary	Spain
Iceland	Sweden
Ireland	Switzerland
Italy	The Czech Republic
Liechtenstein	The Slovak republic
Luxembourg

Alderny	Mauritius
Barbados	Philippines
Bermuda	Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina
Macedonia	Republic of Croatia
Guernsey	Serbia & Montenegro
Israel	Turkey
Jamaica	United States of America
Jersey