Pensioners resident in Britain, receive an annual uprating known as the "triple lock" – the higher of the increase in CPI (price inflation), average earnings growth, or 2.5%.
Included among the group of older pensioners missing out are Albert Johnson, a 103-year-old veteran of World War II, and his 95-year-old wife, Mary, who now live in Western Australia.
[6] During and since the Carson case, various groups and individuals have been lobbying politicians both in the UK and in the countries in which the pensioners are resident, and petitions have been raised.
[18][6] The APPG submitted a report based on around 800 submissions to Parliament in 2021, stating its concerns about the effects of the policy on British war veterans, former public servants, members of the Windrush Generation who had returned to their country of birth, and many others.
[6] Anne Puckridge, a 100-year-old expatriate living in Canada, and who has twice delivered petitions to Downing Street,[20][21] is the ambassador of the ICBP as of 2022[update],[22] and she has been campaigning since 2001 for pension parity.
[6] In April 2002, writer Annette Carson, a UK pensioner resident in South Africa, challenged the policy in the English High Court under the Human Rights Act 1998, but the judge ruled against her, stating in the judgment that the up-ratings issue was a political one, not a judicial one.