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Frozen overseas pensions: WW2 veteran urges Starmer to end 'brutal' policy

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74% Informative

Anne Puckridge is one of just over 453,000 British pensioners living abroad who do not get any annual rise in their state pension.

She has received 72.50 a week since she moved to Canada in 2001 , aged 76 .

Her state pension is now less than half the 169.50 paid to pensioners still living in the UK .

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80

Informative language

81

Neutral language

33

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

44

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not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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