Objectives
JUSTICE 
Our Goal
Pension Parity for ALL recipients of a UK Basic State Pension, Worldwide!
Our Campaign
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The Membership of CABP is made up of those increasingly active expatriates who reside in Canada, and support the:
International Consortium of British Pensioners
ICBP
“Book of Heroes” handed to UK Pensions Minister Steve Webb on the steps of 10 Downing Street in December 2010.
CABP is a founding member, of the ICBP, and together with our sister organisations in Australia it forms part of a global consortium of UK State Pensioners who lived and worked for a period of time in the United Kingdom. These individuals expected to receive the same level of pension entitlement as their fellow pensioners, for the contributions they were all equally required to make during that period.
There are approximately 12 million UK state pensioners living in the UK and some 50 other countries and protectorates. All these pensioners have historically received annual uprating of their pensions. Of those, some 600,000 expatriate pensioners receive uprating (indexing) because they happen to live in those countries where pensions are not frozen by the UK. Unfrozen countries include the European Union, USA, Israel, Philippines, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey, etc..
The practice of paying equal benefits to members of the state contributory pension fund, regardless of their country of residence is normal and common to all countries within the member states of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. (OECD) The only exception is the UK, which fails to treat all its expatriate pensioners equally.
Approximately 91% of the almost 600,000 pensioners who live overseas (most of whom live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa), have never received any uprating of their pensions since they received their first pension cheque as a resident of a frozen country.
All individuals who lived and worked in the UK were required to pay into the mandatory state contributory plan on an equal basis. Many of the frozen pensioners unstintingly served their country, both during and between times of war. Many of these received decorations for bravery (many others failed to return to live to see their pensions). They did not expect their government to treat them in this abominable way.
CABP has members in all Provinces of Canada, the Yukon, and in more than twenty five countries around the world. Included in our membership are residents of the UK who, after they retire, would like to join their families living in a non-uprated country. They are prevented from doing so, fearful of becoming a financial burden to their families as the value of their frozen UK pension income dwindles.
MOST of the approximately 600,000 pensioners who have their pensions frozen reside in the four largest of 53 Commonwealth countries. The remaining 9% live in some 114 other countries throughout the world. As all of these members grow older, the financial impact of pension freezing becomes increasingly difficult for them to cope with.
