Dela Willmott is 98. After a lifetime paying national insurance contributions, the former office manager from Sussex retired in 1979 and started drawing a state pension of £17 a week. Today, she is still drawing her state pension. For Dela retired to Australia, one of 150 countries where recipients do not get their UK state pension uprated each year to take account of inflation. She is one of 548,000 Britons affected by the weird anomaly known as “frozen pensions”.

Source: The Times November 07, 2017 00:05 UTC