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A state pension perk has been SCRAPPED for thousands of retirees in the Labour Party Autumn Budget. State pensioners living abroad will no longer be able to pay class two voluntary National Insurance contributions system.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Commons: "Taxpayers' money should not be spent on pensions for people abroad who only lived here for a couple of years and may never have paid a penny in tax.

"The Conservative Party allowed thousands of people living abroad buy their way into the state pension for as little as £3.50 a week, debasing the purpose of our pension system.

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"And so I will abolish access to class two voluntary national insurance contributions for people l

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