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<p>The UK has seventeen reciprocal social security agreements with EU Member States
which are in use between some or all of the Crown Dependencies and the relevant EU
country which provide for reciprocal uprating of state pension. The EU countries are:
Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. In the event
the UK leaves without a withdrawal agreement, the UK will keep the role of pre-existing
Reciprocal Agreements with individual Member States under review. Whether these come
back into force will be subject to discussion and agreement between the UK and the
relevant EU Member State.</p><p> </p><p>There are ten EU countries where there is
no reciprocal social security agreement in place. Those countries are: Bulgaria, Czechia,
Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.</p><p>
</p><p>The UK government has taken the necessary steps to protect the rights of citizens
through legislation and set out the measures it will take in a no deal scenario. The
measures are based on the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement in the policy paper: “Citizens’
Rights - EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU” dated 6 December 2018.
For social security arrangements, the UK will have retained EU law allowing the UK
to apply the current social security coordination rules to protect those in receipt
or entitled to a UK State Pension or benefit, including where they live in the EU.
This will apply equally to citizens from all EU Member States. In a no deal scenario,
we will uprate the UK State Pension for those living in the EU in 2019-20, with a
view to securing continued reciprocal social security arrangements in future.</p>
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