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WOMEN should not be forced to pay for the government’s “bad housekeeping,” pensions campaigners said yesterday.
Thousands of women will be worse off thanks to the government’s rushed changes to the state pension age, the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) group told assembled trade unionists at Congress House.
Women born on or after April 6 1951 face a later state pension age but the changes were made with little personal notice, giving insufficient time to make plans.
Teachers union NASUWT branded the policy “daylight robbery,” describing women with caring duties as the backbone of Britain.
The union’s Jackie Hucklebridge condemned the “blatant disparity” between men and women’s pensions age, with an extra seven years suddenly added on for women under the guise of making pension ages more equal.
She asked: “Why us? Why should we be forced to pay for this government’s bad housekeeping?”
The National Pensioners Convention is calling for a transitional payment to be made to those women affected by the 2011 Pension Act, saying that any further attempt to raise the age will have a disproportionate affect on women with the lowest incomes and the poorest health.
