If you are a women who was born on or after 6th April 1951 you will most likely be aware of the increase to the State Pension Age (SPA). Hundreds of thousands of women have had significant changes imposed on them with a lack of appropriate notification and a campaign has been set up to challenge these changes and to ask the Government to make fair transitional arrangements for all women.
Although there had been talk of a compromise solution, the new Work and Pensions Secretary has told MPs that will not be possible.
“I don’t see there is a do-able policy solution,” said Stephen Crabb MP.
Members of the campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) said they were disappointed, but were still hopeful that a solution could be found.
Many of those affected say they have been left without enough money to live on, and not enough time to make alternative arrangements.
Under the 1995 Pensions Act, the government decided that the pension ages of both men and women would be equalised by 2020.
Previously, women retired at 60, while men retired at 65.
In 2011, state pension ages were raised at an even faster rate.
The government has said that everyone was told about the changes, but many women say they never received the information.
Posted: 27th May 2016