This is my mother, Anne Puckridge.

She served in World War Two and, at nearly 100 years old this year, she is undertaking her greatest campaigning fight for justice in the name of every single victim of the ‘Frozen Pensions’ scandal.

This December, she will make the 7,000 km journey to London from Canada, where she now lives, and she wants to meet with the Prime Minister. 

Anne wants to personally ask him to end the suffering of 450,000 ‘frozen’ overseas pensioners. They are denied yearly state pension increases, which means that their pension remains permanently ‘frozen’ at the level it was when they moved abroad. 

Half receive just £65 per week or less. Most weren’t even told their state pension would be frozen when they moved.

I urge you to please encourage Sir Keir Starmer to do the honourable thing and at least agree to meet with my Mum, just days before her 100th birthday, to explain this discriminatory policy.

By signing this petition, you can help make this happen!

Living off a fraction of the current UK State Pension, many ‘frozen pensioners’ are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living. Every year, they watch their state pension fall away in value, ‘frozen’ in time while prices rise. It would cost less than 1% of the state pension budget to treat them with fairness and dignity.

And to add a deeper layer of hurt and injustice, some British overseas pensioners get the same benefits as in the UK. The cruel ‘postcode lottery’ of the ‘Frozen Pensions’ scandal means British pensioners in the USA, for instance, see their state pension increase year on year, while just across the border in Canada, my Mum and so many more continue to suffer.  
  
My Mum is leading their fight for justice after a lifelong service to her country. 

She served during World War Two. She was in all three of the RAF, the Navy, and the Armed Forces. She lived and worked in the UK until the age of 76 and paid all her National Insurance dues.

But because she moved to Canada in 2001 to join her family, she has been condemned to only receiving a small fraction of her full state pension ever since.

To this day, she receives just £72.50 per week compared to the £169.50 she would receive if she was in the UK.

But my Mum simply won’t give up. And that’s why I’m asking everyone moved by her story to rally behind our request that the Prime Minister agree to at least meet her.  

I’m sure that the Prime Minister has many demands on his time. But I hope you will agree with me that by virtue of her incredible wartime service, her selflessness in fighting for others even worse off than herself, and the approaching milestone that is her 100th birthday, he should find time to meet her when she travels to the UK in December.

Please support, share and sign my petition if you agree with me that, days before her 100th birthday, the Prime Minister should at least meet my Mum out of respect for her military service and her dedication to seeking justice for hundreds of thousands of other affected pensioners. 

Every signature will help strengthen her call for the meeting. And it would mean the world to me and my Mum if you felt able to encourage others to sign up too. 
  
Thank you for your support.