pommysheila

Thank you also for that, I just wouldn't up sticks without telling the Government but it is a very tricky subject and I do hope a pensioner from the UK will get back to all of us who want to no. xx

Hi I am the same as you but a widow and scared to death of what might happen, if you watch my post you may yourself get some answers. xx pommysheila Australian pensioner returning to the UK

All you have said Marissa makes good sense and I thank you. xx

Thank you Marisa Trouble is since hubby passed my confidence is low and I get nervous if I have to go to places like Centrelink silly I no. This is such a big deal for me to do on my own but I thank you for your letter.

Hi, I was 42 when we came went back for a couple of years in 2007/2009 looking after my Dad but we both worked.

Hi Marisa I think we have been in touch before. Are you a pensioner living in the UK. I am on my own so nobody to back me up my hubby passed 2014. Just me and Chloe I do get the UK pension and have been in oz since 1989 born in 1948 so got my Australian Pension aged 65.

Hello everyone new to site but I am really being supplied so much info about returning to the UK I would like to here from the Pensioners 68 plus who have got back and what happened with the Aussy Pension and all the other stuff that you seem to have to get. I have just had a reply from a UK company called Age UK and after I had read it I got the impression they were trying to put me off. To-day I have had a reply from the assistant to the Prime Minister as I watched her on TV when she became Prime Minister and she came across very caring and although very kind of her to answer my letter it really doesn't make much cense. I don't want to seem rude but a lot of info from people just doesn't add up compared to what I have officially been sent. As we are talking about a final move back I really have to be sure I am not going to end up on the streets. My late hubby and I went in 2007 to 2009 to look after my Dad and work and thing's have just changed so much.

Hello Sue Thank you for your kind letter, I have just got back from Chloe walk. I didn't go into to much but when we first were left here I had a lot of council we had to live with Salvos for a while till my family could get some money to me. The hubby had drawn from the Bank didn't leave anything. He was wanted for a long time but they never caught him. People in the village new who we were that we had just been left here after only 2 years. Eventually I did all the courses that I could do even had a retail course I had been in retail for 20 years in the UK but only could get on a course here.So that really was the big problem I came here not having a clue just a country pumpkin. I am not crying in my milk but people should be aware there is no reason why Australia should give you a job if you don't measure up and it was my husbands skills they wanted not mine. I have had plenty of therapy since still under Doctor but the loss of my husband is just too much at times and I feel that if I went back I may be able to find me because this is not me I am friendly,caring and would help anybody if I could I have quite a good sense of humour but I haven<t seen her for a while. I am not really a fighter but what is the alternative but I do wish I could have a chat with my Mom. I am hoping the doggies win at the weekend. xx

Thank you for your kind words, I do still have some links but not to stay with so I would be flying solo. Yes doggy will be coming she has been left once I couldn't do that to her again. It takes too much to get over. I sometimes think she got a bad deal with me I need her more than she needs me I think. I am not going back because of my son it is me I am drowning. Looking after hubby was so heartbreaking he was on oxygen 24/7 a none smoker all his life like me and had lung disease ipf and died at 62. I watched him fight for every breath and I just put my whole being into looking after him I have just lost me now and maybe I will come back in the UK maybe not but time is ticking.

Thank you for your kind words I don't have any super back in the UK we didn't have such thing's. I have a little from my husband passing but I am scared it will run out and be on the street.

Hello I am in a similar situation and very mixed up very depressed and lonely all being treated by the Doc but when you close the door at night that is it. I came with my son and husband in 1989. No education to speak of left school at 15 went in the factory with Mum. Eventually got my head into gear and had some great jobs working for the National Childrens Home as a Housemother, then a Building Society and finally retail. My husband was an Aircraft Engineer and we lived in Derby he worked for British Airways. In 1989 we came to Australia to work for him not me and there ends the story. I already had a good job and thought it would be easy but my education level was year 10 so they said I had managed to work all my life and I get to Australia and couldn't get a job cleaning toilets. Anyway in 1991 the husband went to work in Malaysia and we never saw him again. So the next few years was school retail courses ,business courses working for the dole you name it I did it still no job offer but I have a lot of certificates. Anyway in 1997 I met a wonderful mad and we were married and lived happily for 18 years. Sadly in 2011 he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and passed away 2014. No I am not over it and yes I miss him terribly what makes it more sad is I haven't seen my son now for 1 year he is 40 but the lady in his life just doesn't seem to want to be friends they have been together about 3 years maybe she think I want to be her Mother like my son said I don't but I can be a bit over caring trying to please I suppose ( my Dad once said to me when we went for a visit back home I took some sheepskin slippers he was 96 and I thought they would be good for the winter (HE SAID YOU ALWAYS WHERE OVER THE TOP ) My son as started to write to me and send gifts which is great but I think I will be on my own this Christmas also. I take my doggy for her walk I see people and we have a chat but that is it not working I haven't been able to make a real friend. When Hubby died a year later we lost our dog Charlie at 17 she just didn't get over him being missing in her eyes, I have adopted a gentle sole of 13 who like me as separation issues from being left even all those years ago. I have my UK pension but only part due to time over here my husband did top it up for me but I wouldn't be able to live on it. I have an Australian Pension but can see that wouldn't be right to be able to take that with me I really get that but does anybody no what happens to people like me who don't have enough to live on when you go back. I am 68 and just feel I can't live like this anymore I really am a people person but never got the chance to show it, I will miss hubby going back if I do but he wouldn't want this for me. Well Keith and Linda I bet you didn't think you would get my life history all in one go but I am a Lancashire lass and we are a bit chatty. xxx Good luck if you go home.