Claiming Social Benefits While Living Abroad
Whether you are able to claim social benefits during your international life heavily depends on several factors:
the country you are currently living in
which country you are originally from
where you have been or are now paying national insurance contributions
what kind of government benefits we are talking about
The U.S., for example, allows their citizens to receive social security payments worldwide, as long as they are eligible and don’t reside in Cuba or North Korea. In the case of these two countries, payments will be withheld until you have moved somewhere else.
Citizens of the United Kingdom, on the other hand, may only claim their UK benefits while living in a member state of the EEA, Switzerland, or any other country which the UK has a social security agreement with. The UK state pension is the exception to this rule and can be claimed elsewhere, too. However, your pension will only increase annually if you are staying in one of the aforementioned places or come back to the UK for at least six months a year.
So, as you can see, international agreements can play an important role in regard to social insurance coverage and the possibility of claiming benefits across borders.
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