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There have been several comments in the thread related to immigating back to an old country with a US (or other) spouse, as well as various comments on cross boarder SS. Some need to be reviewed. For example, this previous post:
Originally Posted by Alan:
"DW is not eligible to her own UK SS because she didn't work and pay into the UK system long enough. She left work 4 years after graduation when we had our first child, and by the time the younger of the 2 was 4 yrs old we had moved to the US. She will be getting US SS because she paid into it for 18 years."
If DW paid UK National Insurance contributions during those 4 years of employment in the UK, and due to her 18 years of SS contributions in the US, she IS entitled to a reduced UK State pension thanks to the Totalisation agreement between the US and the UK, even though she would normally not qualify under UK rules. But, if she were to go this route, her US SS would be WEPed. (It's time to do the math.) The same applies to the other 24 countries the US has an agreement with, as well as agreements that may exist between other countries.
