Just read the article. Of course my dependent wife, has never paid into the UK system, but then it is not she who is claiming the additional pension but me, and I like most others, paid in all my working life, and still pay income tax in UK on my Government pension. Of course I don'`t get a vote there to say how my taxes should be spent.

When I die my wife gets I believe a last payment and then nothing.

Maybe we should all go to live in UK. We would then get the heating allowance and possible other bits and pieces and when I die if my wife does not have enough to live on the Gov will keep her. If we all did that the pittance which we now get as our dependents allowance would shrink into insignificance.