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Yes they were, reciprocity rules have always been published they date back decades.

We have reciprocity with the Philippines our Philippine members who are drawing a pension get the annual rise, we negotiated a reciprocal social security agreement with the Philippines a hell of a long time ago.

So did we try to negotiate with Canada or Australia and if we did who was it that said no?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...e-pay-an-annual-increase-in-the-state-pension

And now it looks like we will lose all of the EEA nations, the UK has, so far, I believe only agreed to retain reciprocity for those countries until 2023 pending further negotiation.

It was, but we haven't really got a deal yet all we have done is agreed the divorce, I am currently reading the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) to try to figure out if they even mention pension protection for British citizens who chose to live in Europe.

We are not talking about the rights of Brits who worked in Germany or France to receive pension payments from those countries we are talking here about British Citizens receiving their British Pension entitlement

Most of the WA appears to talk about protection of the accrued rights of all citizens who have worked in another member state and are due pensions from that state, indeed much of it is seeking to protect the pensions of former MEPs

For what it is worth, in all the 61 mentions of the word Pension (some of which are the word suspension ) that I can find in the 535 pages of the WA none of them refer to anything obliging the UK to continue to increase state pensions for British Citizens retired abroad, I suspect that will be the subject of individual negotiation with each member state at some point in the future.

You can search for 'Social Security' as well, most of it will just upset you as it appears to deal with former EU Commission and Parliament employees You can find it here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-withdrawal-agreement-and-political-declaration

I somehow think we will find out that our pensioners get their annual increases removed in a few years, it's nothing to do with the EU it is how we treat our own citizens, there are probably not that many British pensioners claiming from the Phils but there are probably a lot more claiming from Canada and Australia and other major first world countries that we don't have an agreement with, freezing pensions saves the government a lot of money so what do you reckon the chances are that increases will be stopped for those in Europe.

edit: I would not normally read a rag like this
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/p...sion-uk-eu-brexit-rising-increase-news-latest

But they state the following at the end of the article.

edit: just adding another link for my own reference, it agrees with the express article.
https://www.moneywise.co.uk/news/20...state-pension-increase-inflation-after-brexit