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

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
Gibraltar	Republic of Slovenia
Greece	Romania
Hungary	Spain
Iceland	Sweden
Ireland	Switzerland
Italy	The Czech Republic
Liechtenstein	The Slovak republic
Luxembourg

Alderney	Macedonia
Barbados	Puerto Rico
Bermuda	Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina
French Overseas Departments	Republic of Croatia
Guam	Sark
Guernsey	Samoa
Israel	Serbia & Montenegro
Jamaica	Turkey
Jersey	United States of America
Mauritius	Virgin Islands (USA)
Philippines