les Davey de France

 The DW letter arrived yesterday telling me that I am, as I thought, and as the government website informed me, entitled to a full UK state pension from 18 April 2025. It will be paid into our bank account every four weeks, etc. Once we've received the first payment we can reduce further our support from UFM. We're getting there slowly, step by step.

Who knows! However current thinking is that maybe we will not leave UFM completely, but will stay as long as we have some kind of useful service somewhere, somehow.  We'll keep you informed!

The DWP first acknowledged my request to be paid my UK State Pension from April. Then they sent me back my birth and marriage certificates. Then they told me by SMS that they had studied my case and written me a letter. We might be all systems go for the next phase of retirement.