posts onen to expatriates ? believe more qualifications and experience would have been require! bu long long than coul! have been obtained by that age. Certainly his was so in my case and full pension was ianossible,made ev-n
orse by the fact that 8 years vnsionable service in the gaining the cualifications and experience required by Hong Kong was not transferrable and therefore lost. Fordly a favourable position in comparison with my K counter art.
(b) The lone Mona Covernment has or many years awarded larger pension increases than those amarded by IMG. My increases average out at 8% over the
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years since started to receive version. I find it dificult to belive this is so significantly more to mu k counterpart to place me in a soution which coul be described as oina reasonably well compared with m
counterpart.
(c)"hether or not my salary in lona long was that much more than my counterpart in K is a matter I am unable to knowledgably comment on although ? shout! have thought that the salary of, say, the Chief Officer of the London Fire ricade was not that much lower than mine during my service as Jirector of Fire ervices Hong Kong. However, fail to understand what real relevance this bears to the matter o pension. Pension is awarded according to salary earned and shout! maintain its value. Surely HMG does not believe it is alright for Hong Kona pensions paid in the UK to HRCS to depreciate so much because these
Licers mere vaid more than their counterparts, if this is indeed so?
Jifficult times are being experienced by many: HKOCS pensioners post 1976 because of a seriously depreciated pension income. This is certainly not the case with !! counterparts. Something needs to be done about the situation soon and before this can annarently happen a few beliefs hel by ANG must be dispelled. respectfully ask that you again look at this question after the full and true facts have been established to your satisfaction with a view to changing either the current arrangements of SPOS or bringing in a system for Hong Kong post 1976 pensioners who have returned to the UK to receive their pensions at the Personal Exchange Rate aunded them at their date of retirement, obviously the fairest solution to the problem.
The Earl of Caithness
Minister of tate.
Foreign and Commonwealth Ofice
London S1A 2AH
Yours Sincerely.
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Frederick M. Watson.
Director of Fire Services, Retired
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