State Retirement Pensions: Overseas Residence

Mr. Andrew Turner
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people overseas receive the state retirement pension; and of those how many receive (a) 100 per cent., (b) up to 20 per cent., (c) 21 to 40 per cent., (d) 41 to 60 per cent., (e) 61 to 80 per cent. and (f) over 80 per cent. of the UK entitlement.

James Purnell
Information that is available is in the following table:

The total number of overseas customers in receipt of state pension in September 2006 was 1,075,860.

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|Entitlement (as a percentage) to the basic state pension|Number of customers as at September 2006|
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|100%                                                    |184,187                                 |
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|80% to 99%                                              |105,489                                 |
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|60% to 79%                                              |137,835                                 |
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|40% to 59%                                              |221,958                                 |
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|25% to 39%                                              |289,743                                 |
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|Below 25%                                               |136,648                                 |
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