We should get rid of it. You're either Aussie or you're not.

Get rid of it?.......There is nothing wrong with holding both.

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

i could be wrong but doesn't dual

citizenship entitle to an overseas pension

effectively reducing australian pension?

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That is correct, income from anywhere counts

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

i could be wrong but doesn't dual

citizenship entitle to an overseas pension

effectively reducing australian pension?

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I don't know about other countries but in England you have to have worked there for at least three years to receive any UK pension. I started work in UK when I was 17 and left when I was 21, but within that time I had spent 12 months working as an "au pair" in France and Switzerland, so I don't quite qualify.

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

i could be wrong but doesn't dual

citizenship entitle to an overseas pension

effectively reducing australian pension?

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I seem to be talking a bit about my father lately - he was never naturalized (a POM by birth) - and he received the Australian Pension - plus a war pension from England.