Nearly 500,000 elderly ex-pats will find out today if they have won a legal battle to force the British Government to pay them their full pensions.
They are awaiting a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights over whether their pensions should be index-linked to inflation.
Pensioners living in the European Union, as well as countries which have a reciprocal arrangement with the UK, get an annual increase in line with the cost of living.
But senior citizens who have moved to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa have been excluded.
It means that some have had to manage on the same weekly income for more than 20 years.
via Sky News
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