Pension options for Vietnamese spouse on 10 year route

[jojo77m]

Hi
I'm a UK national about 6 years through the 10 year route with my wife.
I have a pension that gets a 25% contribution from the government, can my wife get that? she's got NRPF on her visa but I think tax relief is not a public fund.

She's also a fulltime mother to our toddler so not working at the moment, she owns 50% of a house which we rent out so her pension deposits would come from there.

thanks

[physicskate]

Hi
I'm a UK national about 6 years through the 10 year route with my wife.
I have a pension that gets a 25% contribution from the government, can my wife get that? she's got NRPF on her visa but I think tax relief is not a public fund.

She's also a fulltime mother to our toddler so not working at the moment, she owns 50% of a house which we rent out so her pension deposits would come from there.

thanks

Are you sure this isn't just given as a tax refund? If she is not paying tax, she wouldn't get a refund. But no, this is not a public fund, as it is based on your making contributions...

[secret.simon]

I have a pension that gets a 25% contribution from the government

From the description, it sounds like you have a private pension and you get a refund to the pension of the income tax that you would have paid on the investment into that fund (i.e. the contribution from your net income is upscaled to being a contribution from your gross income).

So I am not sure that any public funds are involved at all.

And as it is a private pension, your wife would be entitled to the appropriate payout to spouses.