UK Government Pension Starts Next Year

[prem]

I hope someone will be able to assist me. I took my RM pension at 55 years old and will be able to apply for my UK government pension next year (2023). For the last few years I have been living in Thailand and, more recently, in Laos. What I would like to know is will I have to inform
RM pensions that I will be receiving my government pension and will that affect the payments I receive from RM. I have found it difficult to get any response from RM pensions when I email them and I have not received any 'paper' mail from them for the last 6-7 years (No P60 or notification of increase in pension) so any information from this forum would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Richard

[RobertT]

I can't think of a reason why you would have to inform RM pensions about reaching State Pension Age(SPA).

Your RM pension may be reduced if you're in section C, as those members get a supplement until SPA. But I assume they know your age and losing that will be automatic?

As far as I'm aware there are no other possible reductions on reaching SPA.

[prem]

Thank you for your prompt reply.. Not being able to get information fro. the pension provider had me a little worried. I appreciate your hekp.
Thanks
Richard

[heapsy]

Where do you have your pension paid to? If it's a UK bank account then why do you need to tell them? Is your state pension frozen, by that I mean, no increases if you live in your chosen country. Don't you have a UK address you can use for correspondence? Tbh I wouldn't tell them, but each to their own.

[RobertT]

Most European countries and a select number of other countries have a 'social security agreement', which means state pensions will increase for people from the UK living there.

But there a large number of countries where that isn't the case. Laos and Thailand are 2 of them!

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/li ... te-pension
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ement-with