Revealed: The £271 billion “rape” of the National Insurance Fund that deprived 50s women of their state pension

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Guy Opperman – the current pension minister who says it is too expensive to pay the 50s women.

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The fact that 50s women  were robbed of their pensions  by raising the pension age is undeniable. But the biggest argument against putting this right has been the cost – a fact perpetually used by the present pensions minister, Guy Oppenman, who quotes the £70 billion plus figure.

Recently I discovered that successive governments had taken a decision  NOT to top up the fund as originally proposed by William Beveridge when the welfare state was set up in 1948.

What I did not know was how much money was lost. Now thanks to an extraordinary paper prepared for the National Pensioners Convention by a social security expert Tony Lynes,and still on the web, I now know. And it is staggering. You can read it here.

The paper written 12 years ago by a man I personally knew as a fount of all knowledge on the benefit system  when I was social services correspondent on the Guardian. He sadly died, aged 85, in a car accident in 2014. There is an appreciation of him in The Guardian here.

His calculation from beyond the grave is that for every year that the government decided not to contribute to the fund it was deprived of £11.3 billion. As he says: “Restoring the supplement at its pre-1981 level would bring an extra £11.3 billion a year into the Fund, enough to meet the gross cost of a £109 per week basic pension.”

We now know that virtually no money was paid into the fund by the Treasury for around 24 years from 1990 to 2014. I calculate – and this will be a conservative estimate – because it doesn’t count the reduced contributions post 1981 – that an amazing £271 billion  yes billion  extra would have been in the fund.

This would pay  more than three times over the money due to the women – and even allowed higher  state pensions for everybody else now.

Why this didn’t happen is because politicians of all three major parties took a decision not to do this. They took the decision knowing that their Parliamentary and ministerial pension pot would mean they would be some of the wealthiest pensioners in the land when they came to retire. And the taxpayer would foot their bills.

They decided the pain should fall on the electorate instead. In 1995 they knew  all the arguments about people living longer and that money paid out in state pensions would go up.

They  could have changed the rules and informed the Government Actuary  Department that they would deliberately build up a surplus in the fund – so it could pay out as people lived longer without changing the pension age.

Instead they chose the cheapest  route – raise the pension age so they won’t have to subsidise the fund- but try and keep mum so the women wouldn’t realise what they were doing.

The villains are the late Lady Thatcher, John Moore, Kenneth Clarke, Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Steve Webb and Guy Opperman. There are many others who stood by and did nothing. That is why 50s women have been left in this situation today.

 

 

896 thoughts on “Revealed: The £271 billion “rape” of the National Insurance Fund that deprived 50s women of their state pension”

  1. No doubt the robbing government will hope all of us will die before reaching and enjoying our retirement it’s criminal what they have done although for the majority of us 50’s women have worked 46 years plus doesn’t seem to count for much…

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    • Disgusting, I had paid full contributions by 2012, should have had my pension this May, and trying to get a job at 60 is almost impossible and do their wives have to work at 60+. All my plans are now ruined, and until age 55 I expected my pension at 60…..they don’t know the despair and upset this has caused!

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      • Same as me,worked from 16 years old and paid in for 35 years, paid up in 2010 – due to retire in December, made redundant, can’t get a job at 59 years old. Now they tell me I won’t even get a full pension when I finally retire at 66.

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      • It’s not that they don’t know – it’s that they don’t CARE! We are only drones and not to be mistaken for people to these leeches.

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      • I agree. I’m 61 and only found out on Facebook when I was 58 that I couldn’t retire at 60 but would have to work 6… yes 6 more years. I’d taken a low paid job in my 50’s as my health was failing, believing I could manage until 60. I’m now struggling to walk but I have no choice, my plans to relax and look after my health are in tatters. I dread waking up in the morning…as do more and more women.

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      • They do Jayne….they just don’t give a stuff that they have wrecked our future for which we have worked and contributed towards since 1974 !!…Faceless pension rich politicians….disgusting across all Parties.
        Mo.

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      • So the government put the pensions regulator in place to ensure schemes are managed properly and receive contributions and yet they have squandered our money as though it was their own. Just a load of thieves and as its been so many years we can’t blame one party its all of them!

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      • In this day and age of equality how do you think males felt when women got their state pension 5 years earlier than them purely because of their gender

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      • Yes the same for me I am 63 in October I have just been made redundant but got to look for work as I cannot retire until my 66th birthday.
        Absolutely demoralising having to go to job centre at my age……….But what can I do………

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      • Plus we were legally paid less than men for doing the same work. I was paid £14 and week working at Hotpoint while the man next to me got £21. I was raised in poverty because my dad took ill when I was 7 and mum’s female wage then had to keep a family of six. Imagine if she’d had the same pay as a man. We would have been much better off. So we lose our pensions for 5 years or more after being paid unequally when we started work.

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      • Hi I’m 64 and 2 months I was made redundant on 24th april2019 but didn’t get redundancy pay as I had been there less than 2years, having to go to universal credit has been terrible and the strain of looking for work has seen my health take a nosedive, I think I’ve succumbed to stress and haven’t kept my diabetes in check, went to a walk in centreyesterday (((because when I rang the doctors on the 19th June I was given a appointment for 9th July))).where the triage nurse asked what was wrong, long story short glucose in my urine and my blood sugars were in the high20s, as I live alone I could be in serious trouble. Had to see doctor today 20th my blood sugars at 21.4 which means it’s going in the right direction, also had to jump on the scales and I’ve lost 8kg , actually I’m pleased with that, I’ve been signed off for 4 weeks because I have to get it under control and keep stressing about a job will exasperate my situation. How many of the 1950s ladies are breaking down and becoming ill, not to mention the lovely ladies who’ve passed on. I’ve just found out about back to 60 and I’ve joined the group and now I’m a lot more clued up, the DWP are so arrogant, I just hope the high court judges find in our favour, DWP say it will cost the government £300 million to administer and take 20 years to pay out ,they’ve just given £600 million to a company that assess how ill Disability-oclaimants are, that was done on the quite as well.I would love to slap the snot out of the absolute arsehole that is IAN DUNCAN SMITH, to all 1950s ladies stay well and positive, because thanks to the amazing people who’ve took up the fight on our behalf, look how far they’ve come,regards to all SYLVIA 4/5/1955.

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    • Disgusting . I’m fuming . these people are all in it for themselves they are all Vampires sucking the life out of us 50’s women ,while they are getting greedier and richer ,most of us are getting poorer . Where do they get that we are living longer from ,i lost my husband 5 years ago at the young age of 57 since then the cemetery on the side where he is buried is full ,some are younger and the few that are older are in their late 70’s .

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      • I also lost my husband at 58. He had worked all them years and paid into the pot. Where has his pension gone because it won’t come to me so where will it go. I myself have worked since I was 15 and still can’t have my pension until 2020. It’s called fraud. Thought you got sent to prison for this . It’s illegal.

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      • Mine was 52 when he died in 2006 now l find that you don’t get 100% of his contributions now gone down to 50% . And it not automatically given s before you have to apply. Like begging

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    • There is a solution, move somewhere like Canada and take your UK Pension which will be worth double there. So its a win win, you get your pension and the UK loses all its Retiree spending taxes. Its the best way to Screw the Government over for what they did to all those women.

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      • The only issue with living in Canada (and other countries where there is no mutual agreement on pensions) is that your UK pension will never change even when those in the UK and other countries with an agreement get an increase. The slump in the pound since Brexit doesn’t help either . However I should not complain as it is worth it to live here!

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      • Really, you are not very bright……did you know that by living in Canada your pension is not index linked – hence no rises . Also that you will be hit with Canadian Taxes on it?

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      • Unfortunately, you won’t get double any more thanks to the folly of Brexit that has heavily devalued the pound.

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      • But trying to get into Canada, Australia or anywhere decent is hopeless – they won’t let you in. And why would they when we are ageing and having health problems. Not the best.

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      • Wait until the EU falls apart – the EU will take a big hit then, that is if Germany and other major EU countries haven’t gone back to their former currencies by then. The EU won’t like our exports being cheaper so the pound will get stronger again – just like magic!

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      • Be careful!! There are a number of countries (Commonwealth) which include Canada, Australia South Africa and others where a UK pension will be frozen in the hands of the recipient at the amount first granted. Mike Uk pensioner living in South Africa

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      • I have just returned from living in Canada for the past 12 years, it may seem ones pension is double but it goes no further as the prices are higher and you have to take into account the exchange rate and just to add to your woes your state pension will be frozen at the amount first paid to you when you arrive there. No annual indexing…..ever. So it’s worth less with each passing year. Across the border in the USA you will still get annual indexing each year. Read up on the frozen pension scandal, some countries are frozen some not. Another injustice perpetrated by the UK government and this one has been going on for decades.

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      • You could move to Canada, and yes your money would be converted to Canadian dollars. If for instance you had £400 a month UK, it would at the moment amount to $680. However, that would be the amount, subject to conversion rates, for the rest of your life in Canada. The UK government refuse to give annual increases to mainly Commonweath residing UK pensioners!!!

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      • Sorry; your British Pension, if you move to Canada, is set at the amount it was on the day you left the UK; it will never be topped up as folk who retire to some other places get it. If you move to the USA you get the annual Increases though! My late mother used to commute between the UK and Canada; where her permanent home was in retirement; she had no blood relatives left in the UK; her grandchildren and me; her daughter, had already come to Canada. But she had an old friend of her late mother’s that she felt duty bound to care for as best she could, so since he paid her fare she would spend 3 months or so in the UK twice a year keeping him company and generally treating him as the “”Uncle”” he had always been to her since early childhood. While in the UK her pension was topped up to the amount of the day, but on returning to Canada; back down it went. My mother had worked from a week after her 15th birthday; as the child of a widow from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic the allowance for her stopped the day she turned 15. My father dropped dead aged 60, leaving her to shift gears from being simply another Shop Assistant in his business and providing secretarial support in her “spare time” to running it totally; not only continuing to serve customers but doing the ordering, the books, the taxes and all. As for me; I have NO BRITISH PENSION despite having worked in my father’s business from age 16, then later working full time as a Teacher and paying into a superannuation scheme. All because the rules were changed. Thank goodness Canada gives me a basic pension then tops it up since I have no other income and thus qualify for a Supplement to bring me up to a poverty level income.

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      • Only your pension will be frozen and will not receive any Cost-of-Living adjustments. That was because Harold Wilson was strapped for cash, so he froze all out of country recipients out of their annual upratings. Don’t go to a Commonwealth state but go to an EU member country, or the US, where pension freezing does not apply!

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    • It is so easy to steal from women, they are used to be second class anyway, they don’t matter, they don’t need the money as they have a husband to look after them, if not they can just stop eating for six years. I had made my plans and my pension forecast said I was to retire in 2014 and then someone said “I’ve heard it’s been changed” News to me!!! So I have managed on my savings. Like so many others. And then it changed again and postponed my date by another year and a half . Not fair!!!

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      • It breaks my heart to know while struggling to buy a house bring my children up as stoic citizens who all have worked and paid never need benefits that these people who I know through media all my life, just did it for their own fame & fortune while acting like they cared. My mom & dad would be so let down after struggling after the war and teaching us how to behave and trust our governments . Now I just feel used and do not know how I can trust anyone in politics now to care about services that need more money/staff etc. What do I tell my grandchildren and my children that people in government don’t care x

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    • I SO agree with your comments Carolyn Watson – the Governments have stitched us up good and proper – meanwhile securing their own future

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      • My husband has multiple sclerosis and cannot walk. I have to feed him and I had to give up work at 51. He had to retire from rolls Royce aero engines at 48 after leaving school and undertaking an apprenticeship there at 15 and doing an hnd certificate through his apprenticeship. He is unable to live without my caring for him. Where is the proof that we are all living longer when there are so many deaths through cancer, motor neurone disease. etc. I am paid £64.50 per week to cover my caring efforts!!! What would it cost for me to still be working and have someone come in and ‘CARE’ for my husband. I also was a Carer for my mum till she passed away 9 years ago. What the hell is going on for us women who take on the ‘BURDEN’ of being Carers because it usually falls on the woman to take on the caring role. I am so tired mentally and physically and can’t believe that us women are being treated in this appalling way when we are saving the national
        health service so much money because they cannot provide a proper service to look after our loved ones. 😞😡😢

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      • None of my immediate family members have lived past 65. Mum was 64 when she died, Dad 65 and my brother 61. I’m 61 next month and unable to claim my pension for a further 5 years ….. I’ll be lucky to make it to retirement! All my family has worked and paid NI tho my mum only paid a half stamp which meant she couldn’t retire till dad did … she never made it! So out of my whole family the only one to have claimed any pension at all, after years and years of contributions, was my dad…… he claimed for 2 months then he died. Not sure how the politicians believe were all living longer!

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    • My husband passed away in 2011 at 62 years old, he never got a penny of his pension. I was born 1956 had cancer 4 years ago but cant retire, not sure i will ever get mine as well. We both started working and paying into the system at 15 years of age.

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      • So sorry for your loss, my Husband passed away too aged 58. My blood is boiling, I found out via Facebook about having to work until I’m 66 when it was announced. We had plans, but all taken away. I too got nothing, was informed when my State pension is due a calculation would be made which includes his pension. I’m certain the government want us to work until we drop dead so all win situation for them, 2 lots of pension money unclaimed should I die before 66 – millions of us in the same boat. Like yourself we both paid in since we were 15, it’s criminal what they have done to us. What about our time for us and family, we brought our kids up working full time, missed first’s of everything as they were growing, I’m 63 and have missed my grandchildrens first’s Something / someone needs to be held responsible for this theft and unfair treatment of us born in the 50’s.

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    • IT is nothing more than culling as many of 50s born women as possible before they get a chance of retirement .. So many of these women have already worked 46 years , raised a family , there was no equal pay when 50s woman started work & they are still having to pay into a corrupt system . Absolutely shameful , .

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      • Hi Jan

        I was born in 1954, have worked since leaving school at seventeen and according to my pension forecast will not get the full pension which I can’t understand why. I took voluntary redundancy three years ago as had I not, I most likely would have been made redundant due to a reorganisation in my then workplace. I have had two periods of six months work since through an agency but have now been unemployed since October 2017 and have applied for numerous jobs since to no avail – I am sure that this is due to my age, now 64+. I have received job seekers allowance which was paid for about 6 months and am now just signing for national insurance credits as I have been told that I have to continue to pay national insurance to reach my maximum pension of £155.72 until the end of April 2019!!!! I can’t understand this when I have already 49 qualifying years. My girlfriend is 4 years younger than me and was made redundant, she will get her state pension in 2023 and has been forecast to receive £175 per week. I can’t understand how there is such a difference in our forecasts. Also, she does not need to pay any more contributions. I did ring the Pension Advisory Service and asked them to explain but I am none the wiser though I think it is to do with being contracted out. My friend’s COPE is £47 and mine is £49 so there is not a lot of difference there but there is a difference of £90+ on the monthly forecasts!

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    • We should all be out protesting at this atrocity. Did these ministers think we wouldn’t notice or care? We should have all of them who know or knew stripped of their titles and their pensions stopped or confiscated to make up this massive shortfall and our pensions given back to us with interested added.

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      • All the hardworking women especially those campaigning under Waspi and Back to 60 have been robbed to build a 200 million ton of royal shit, the unelected scrounger of the country.

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    • I feel your pain, I was 60 in Feb 2018 and when I went to work at 16 the government told me if I paid tax and NIC for 35 years I would get a pension at 60, so much for that lie but the annoying thing is that if a private pension company had told me the same and did not pay out the Financial Ombudsman would be all over them, double standards or what?????

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    • Yes. Just ask me why I’m downsizing my house. Should have started receiving my pensions last January now to release some money I’m selling my house. Thieving “B@@@@@@@“. Absolute disgrace when I’ve paid full contributions since the age of 16 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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    • Its not only the way they brought this in (should have been more phased) we lose all other benefits.. bus pass etc. I worked from age of 16 and no company offered me a private pension, then we were dumped on and pension age went up leaving no time to put another plan in place! I worked until 62 (the job wanted me out after age of 60 and bullied me out) so I now have no job, no pension. I do have a husband who worked 2 days a week and has now been given 5 days a week (thanks god) but travels 3 hours each day just to pay the bills it costs over £300.00 a month in petrol, long hours, some unpaid at times (needs to be done to keep a job) We should be compensated and things put right…. We are also blocking jobs for the young. The government say unemployment has gone down but its because they have kept the kids in school until 18 when they come out in a few years there will be even less jobs. Some people are happy and physically fit to continue until 66 but give them the choice. Its all unfair and badly planned!!!

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    • whats even worse is….i asked because i have paid full contributions? for like over 45 years – can i now stop paying as i’m not going to gain any more pension. My answer?…certainly NOT – you’re topping up someone else who hasn’t got enough for a pension!!!!!….You dont want to know my reply.

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    • Maybe we could ask for the support of the wives of these so called ministers!! or even the Queen could come down off her throne for a minute and see what her successive governments have done to the women of this country. Absolutely disgraceful and shameful.

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    • It seems that if you don`t work, won`t work, want to sponge off our tax money, you can live like lords, especially if you live in a council house. I know of somebody on benefits who go abroad each year, have a car, and copies her sister when she has something new in the house. Likewise, if you come here from foreign countries, and are not able to work, there`s a house, phone, car, and food on the table ready and waiting for them. Those of us that have worked all our lives have to get by on a government pension that doesn`t even cover the basics. I was born in 1949 and fortunate enough to have collected my pension from the age of sixty, and I`m so sorry for those who have to work until they drop. The system needs to be reformed, and a fairer system put into place. Unemployment benefit to those who genuinely cannot get work, but regardless of what the job is, even if you are a teacher who cannot find work, should be made to do anything on offer, until the government gives them help to find what it is they are qualified to do.

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      • so people in council houses don’t work? sweeping generalisations get people into trouble. I live in social housing and our entire road is full of working families. not one house has people sat on their bums doing nothing.

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    • I was born in 1954 I am now 64 and still having to work until the age of 66 yrs, 9 months and a few days. This is disgusting !!!!! So where has the money gone , if it hasn’t been put into the pension fund, who’s had it!!!!????? The bloody government they are ALL as bad as one another!!!,

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    • This was not anything to do with Margaret Thatcher. She resigned as Prime Minister in 1990 after being stabbed in the back by her own ministers, namely Michael Heseltine who wanted her job but still didn’t get it. She was a patriotic, loyal, English woman and no way would she have agreed to not topping up the Pension Fund for citizens She once said “There is no society, There are men and women and their families. She would not have stabbed them in the back.

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      • Are you joking?!!! Thatcher did absolutely nothing to help women or families – she imposed the council tax regime on us FYI its the only bill you can go to prison for not paying !!!! She broke down mining and industrial communities. and sold of much of the countries wealth – I am pretty sure she was a psychopath which is why she was finally ousted out of power

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      • Totally outrageous what the Government has done. Yet they can support other countries. Yet Rob their own.
        I’m one of the many women unjustly treated with no ever communication from the Government to myself … raising my pension age 6 years … age 66.
        They are hoping a majority of us won’t live until then. They should also take into consideration a lot of us started work ..age 15

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    • This needs to become an election issue. .My wife has worked all her life and is 60 in October. I have had two bouts of cancer and so I wonder if I will see the retirement we planned. With so many Parlimentary seats being marginal,you Ladies have never had a better time to make MPs take notice

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      • So true Clive 3.8million women with the support of there family and friends I don’t think these political parties realise we voted them in and we can vote them out, there is strength in numbers. The DWP are so arrogant, they really believed they would win at the high courts, at that stage they lost,now there on the backfoot that’s why there trying to get people against the 1950s ladies and their cause using extortionate claims about how much it would cost to pay us our pensions, that we’ve payed in, if we’ve paid in and they haven’t paid out then where the hell has that money gone. Somebody’s misappropriated the funds, they claim that if they have to payback then it will cost £300 million to administer it, worse than that the filthy lowlifes are saying it will take 20 years to bring it to its conclusion, many are ill and becoming ill and so many have passed away, plus the suicides( saddest thing of all). If we owed the DWP money they would hound you for it back, people need to get involved and sign the backto60 petition, we all need to stand up and stand together and show these robbers that we mean business. There is also another group called WASPI, and some amazing people who are doing amazing work for the 1950s women , I do hope your health has improved and maybe just maybe your wife will get recompense and you can have some fun spending a few pounds on yourselves, I wish you both well regards Sylvia 4/5/1955.

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      • I know what you mean my husband died 2 years ago I still have 18 months until I get my pension. They stopped widows pension 100 pounds per calendar month is what you get after keeping his pension and robbed me of 2 years of time I could have spent with him cancer took him and poverty on universal credit will probably take me, while the MP fill up there pension pots on the theft of pensioners.

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    • So very true all of us don’t sleep in parliament all day or push pens around some of us have heavy jobs that are getting too much for us it’s a disgrace worked since l was 15 and still going on we should get what we are entitled too but they get away with it always my opinion England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 or Great Britain 🇬🇧 disgraceful too all our people

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    • And to add insult to injury, for mixed age couples, the entitlement to Pension Credit (around half of pensioners are eligible to claim this) will be based on the age of the YOUNGER partner (usually the woman) after 19 May 2019 this year. Previously it was the age the older partner that determined Pension Credit entitlement., Which means that pensioner “mixed age” couples who were regarded as a unit claiming State Pension with the top up addition of Pension Credit will revert to Universal Credit in cases where the younger partner has not reached State Pension qualifying age, Exactly the 50s women who were short changed/frauded on their entitlement to State Pension at age 60, by up to 6 plus years at a ridiculously short notice period. And governments of all colours have always encouraged us to PLAN for retirement years ahead !!???
      I hope the Judicial Review on 5/6 June 2019 come to only one decision – to revert those women effected, back to 60 as their retirement age rather than a “compensatory payment”. The expensive administrative complexity of doing that will caution any government in the future from insulting “pensioners-to-be” citizens who were made promises throughout all their working years.

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    • This is downright theft, they should be in jail the bloody lot of them for not only stealing from the people who were working and paying in all their working lives but also for ruining people’s lives. It’s absolutely disgusting and they should be made to pay it back 😠

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    • Born in 1956. Sex discrimination throughout my life. Life belt of retirement at 60 taken away by those who prospered under the patriarchal system. Cynical delays to reconsidering the delayed pensions. Waiting for us all to get to 66 so they can say there’s nothing to reconsider. My MP has not signed. When I asked Gawke to support us, he said it was a question of equality. With such dunderheads in power what chances have we.

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    • There seems to be a theme here in this country of allowing pensions to be stolen. Robert Maxwell and Philip Green as well as the government. And this all sounds familiar to the Sheriff of Nottingham in the Robin Hood legend dating back to 13/14th century AD. So nothing has changed.

      If we get ill in our final years, in particular suffer with dementia they takes our homes.

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    • on reading this information justice should be done for these 1950’s women because the person responsible have no conscience they are financially ok don’t worry about those that this injustice has affected

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  3. Absolutely disgraceful if this was another employer they would be charged with theft and deception they have no shame the 1950s ladies have worked hard paid their dues and they expect to be treated fairly to be told the truth not to told a pack of lies.

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    • Old age pension is not a benefit …we have worked most off our life for the government to take it from us…I’m 63 and have to till I’m 66 for my pension

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      • Mary cameron Exactly! How dare they start calling our pension a benefit as if we are welfare scroungers. How dare they call people on benefits scroungers anyway when they are the worst scroungers in the country

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  5. We knew it thanks to David Hencke former Guardian Journalist for 33 years. What an absolute gift this article is and so sad the gent that exposed passed away in a road accident.
    we will all retweet this over and over Thankyou
    A 1950’s women who had no notice found out at 58 extra 6 yrs and not because I was informed but on grapevine

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  8. Then they need to be finding it to pay myself and the other 50s women the money which is rightfully ours It is not a benefit its our due. We paid in the money so they need to be paying out.

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  9. It is hard to believe that just a handful of inhuman humans have caused such trauma to so many millions, but…sadly, it has always been thus. It’s been thus because we, the 99% have ALLOWED it to be so, for centuries. The internet’s exposing them all…and for the first time we are being made aware of their ruthlessness and pure evii. THANK YOU for exposing them, yet again, David…and here’s to a Whole New World being created where every govt has to obey The People and not the other way around. They all need to take an Oath Of Office, staring with ‘First, do NO harm to The People’….and those who DO harm can then be removed instantly, BY The People. Together, we are so, SO strong and it is only in recent times that we have started to realize that. To quote Richie Havens “They Can’t Hide Us Anymore”…and neither can ‘they’ hide FROM us either. We are coming for them, every lousy, cruel, self-interested, lying, cheating politician..

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    • Unfortunately they are about to pass a law saying that those who fiddle expenses will not have their names published as it’s not nice to embarrass them. Poor poor rich wee souls.

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    • Paying national insurance towards your state pension in theory is similar to paying for a private pension. If this were the case people would be suing them for miss selling ,Isn’t this just what it is because we’re told 60 age of retirement when our children were young no child care like there is today. It was us that it fell on to cover childcare plus we paid the married woman’s contribution which was less but we were advised to do this. How could this be equality. Yes now women pay same as men. Women can work full time with help with childcare so it’s understandable equal rights but wasn’t for women born in 50s. Totally unfair, the government should be ashamed of themselves. They just cook the books and used this to save money. What happened to legal rights?

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  10. Less than 2 years, or in some cases NO notice given and they knew back in 1995!!, no excuse for this….,and its not 18 months added as the government keep spouting its a WHOLE 6 YEARS, they will have stolen over £48K from my meagre pension which is the lowest in Europe, nothing but out and out theft £70 billion to put this right seems a drop in in the ocean considering how much they have stolen over these years

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  11. This is a national scandal !!!! These people should be hung for what they have done to us. Alternatively they should be arrested and charged with deception and fraud. Cannot believe what I am reading but knew there was some collusion between governments. Ashamed of this country and it’s dishonest governments.
    Prior

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    • I think that this Government are trying to gradually get rid of the welfare system altogether.
      I know they are selling off the NHS little by little.
      All this they have no money is crap, they can do d money when it suits them.
      I actually they think we are perasites grrr.
      A lot of them are not from the real world, they don’t know what it’s like to struggle day to trying to make ends meet.
      And this Universal Credit is just typical of there absolute cruelty.
      They treat the people of this country as the enemy, they are supposed to help their people not make their lives a misery.
      Their main objective is privatisation , that is what they stand for.
      Anyway back to the pension issue

      I was born in 1956, I left school at 15 to start work full time.
      I have always done care work which when I was younger didn’t include much health and safety.
      In 2016 I had surgery on my spine due to two herniated discs compressing my spinal cord.
      I was forced to go back to work before I really should have as I only got £72.00 to live on to pay my bills and buy food.
      This was ESA. I came off work again last September due to further herniated discs in my spine and neck.
      I have been treated like a criminal because I have applied for Universal Credit
      I received a letter in June 2013 telling me my pension would be 65 raising to 66 by 2020.
      I don’t think that is plenty of notice.
      I am struggling with my health and struggling to pay my bills after working for 47 years.
      I feel like I am being punished for still being alive and may live to draw my pension.
      I think the pension age should be 60 because a lot of people that age can’t do the jobs they use to do.
      Eyesight gets worse, you feel more tierd and most people I know have some form of arthritis. I know there are exceptions to the rule.
      They say people arriving longer but I don’t feel a lot have them have proper quility of life.
      Surely peoeople should be able to enjoy some years of retirement before their bodies or minds fail them
      Always their are some individuals who have good health into old age but I don’t know any.
      Sorry for the rant but I was on a roll.
      And what about the billions of unclaimed pensions , those people javent had anything out of their pension pots.

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  13. We all suspected that this is what happened ! Stealing from the pension fund ! May they all never sleep again at night !

    So many of us have now waited 3,4,5,6, years from our pension age. It’s a disgrace. Women , all women and men included are now verging on poverty 😡. Even more so the widows and widowers that were denied Widows pensions as well.
    It’s an absolute disgrace.
    We won’t go away, we want what we paid in for, working from the age of 15 years old , and having to work still now, many in I’ll health, and tired !
    WE WILL GET JUSTICE. !!!!!.

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  14. Working from age 15. Us 1950s. Paid up full national insurance. Pension should go to next of kin’s. Not government. We be dead before we get . Disgusting

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  15. They are all in it for themselves lining there own pockets and sod the rest of us they all should be brought to account for what they have done sooner rather than later And stripped of there massive pensions And don t worry (that’s if anybody is) they won t have to go to a food bank they can live of the rest of the money they have fiddled

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  18. Daylight robbery …. malpractice wrongful administrations…thieving… blatant wrong doing …..call it whatever you like … just goes to prove that it does not matter which party is in Government they are all the same …. Sgame on then

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  20. Absolutely scandalous. We were not given anything like enough notice to cover ourselves for this shortfall even if we had been financially able. Many women in their 50’s are really struggling. My sister who is chronically ill should retire in October. She will have to work at least another 8 yrs before she gets a penny. Many of us will be d ad before we claim a single penny of pension 😔

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  21. I think it should be given back to us we have paid in all our lives and now find we have to work until we’re 66 I will have worked 51 years while young girls are having babies so they don’t have to work and will never contribute plus all the immigrants who come here and get benefits the system is so unfair I personally will have lost £53.728 that’s if I live to be 66, I am very very angry as we were never told about it he change we should have received a sing for letter with a apology attached

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  22. As well as having defrauded women of their pensions Another nasty decision has been taken by a number of firms and this is it.Having worked for a number of years sometimes decades a woman now in 60s, is, due to age, unable to continue producing what they had years earlier, you would expect some sympathy from the company considering their long service.Nothing could be further from the truth, if the worker is unable to carry on then they will be sacked, being unable to work like a slave any more. No redudancy just job seekers. At 60 plus. Caring government we have. We are all right jack.Chris FaganPs Maybe someone should start compiling a list of companies having this policy

    Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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  23. I am one of these 50’s ladies.
    who will have to wait an extra 6 years for my state pension. Which, when l started work, at 16. Was promised to me on my 60th birthday.
    When l get my pension, my husband will be nearly 80…
    Shame on them.

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    • I am 60s child (October) and until all this was thrashed open i expected to have the option to retire at 60. Now they day it is 66yrs and 7 months! I have been medically retired from my workplace for nearly a year now and so have my company pension to live on. Luke others i started working at 16 and expected to retire at 60 with full pension.

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  24. A number of manufacturers have adopted the policy that if a woman/worker is due to age unable to carry on producing what they had years before, they will be sacked. No redundancy just job seekers

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  26. Thank you at last someone realises we have been robbed not just robbed but they sneaked up and mugged us from behind no warning thank you once again for highlighting this

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  27. I’m absolutely disgusted with all that were and still are involved in robbing us 60s women .. and yet again line there own pockets with no one thought to those that should be getting what is rightfully theres … 😠😠😠😠😠

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  28. It was and still remains Theft by The Government. Its an absolute disgrace these politicians can retire early because of the past n present Government decided to literally RIP these women born in the fifties off big time. Shame on a those who decided to take this thieving action against women.

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  29. Perhaps now we know that they purposely and systematically robbed everyone of their pensions to protect their own, now would be a good time to remove the generous pensions they all receive and leave them with the same as everyone else…..at the same age. To say I am disgusted that ministers, who are voted in by people of this country to protect our lives and our rights, could rob from the fund we all have no choice but to pay into, doesn’t even scratch the surface. The people who made these changes and have since fobbed us off should now be made to leave their seats and forego the pensions they robbed us to obtain.

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  30. Thank you for exposing this most awful reason why we cannot have our due. This together with the deliberate policy of not telling us in 1995 shows the contempt they have for hard working ‘get on with’ 1950s women.

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  31. This is absolutly disgusting..daylight robbery..im a 50s born woman 6 yrs added to my pension age..i still have to work as im single now….looking at equity release to free up money so i can at least have some things i expected at my age…..i was given NO NOTICE from the DWP regarding these changes….only in the ladt 3 yrs have i realised…i hzve paid in full for 48 yrs….and still paying…and i will get the same state pension as someone who only has to have 35 yrs NI….to say im angry about the way i and 2.5 million pther women have been treated is an understatement!!!!

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  32. Thank you David, for this information, which distresses me even more knowing the real Facts! So, My burning question is – is there nothing can be done to correct this Biggest Robbery ever from the Government? How can this be possible for the Government to have committed a Crime of Robbery And getting away with it? Who in this Country can support us – 50s women to put this right?
    3 groups are Campaigning for a good few years but nothing Constructive is happening. These women are working so hard in their own time/money and it is very very sad indeed! People are dying waiting for their pension. If this is not the biggest Robbery then worst to come. The Government Must not get away with this!!!!

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    • They speak of great train robbery the gold bullion robbery these people have been imprisoned yet we have the great government robbery these people still free and never have been help accountable for there actions why are they getting away with this because it’s the government and they do what the like and still stealing from us cheats and thieves we should all get together and demand justice

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  33. As long as the government keep getting away with lies, thief, deception and lining their own pockets, they will keep doing it. There is no one in this country that can stand up to them, they are a law unto themselves.

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  35. it is pure robbery life givers care givers …women will die working along with everythinglelse we do which cannot simply be stopped care for everyone and get shafted yourself by those who should know better shame on you all..

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    • I think people are wakening up to British governments, so here are a few more facts on pensions.
      Here are the words of a person who worked in the treasury. ” Back in 2000, I worked at the Treasury on the Myners Review of Institutional Investment and discovered that the so-called Minimum Funding Requirement for UK defined benefit pension funds was not working properly. Firstly, the Government had itself assured pension scheme members that their pensions were completely safe and protected by law. The reality was that the MFR did not ensure there was enough money in UK pension schemes to pay all members’ pensions”.
      Article 8 of the EU Insolvency Directive requires member states to properly protect workers’ pensions. Britain had said the MFR would do this, but that was not true. source Money Marketing Ros Altmann 2016.
      This leaves us with a problem, we send people to represent us and make decisions on our behalf, I accept that. But surely they have no right to tell us down right lies, and take our pensions and make laws that guarantee the pensions of directors. Can we really trust our MP’s to act on behalf of the people/pensioners, sadly I am afraid not.

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      • Baroness Altman is a joke! She was supposed to be on the pensioners side. Until she accepted a ‘title’. Then all her views and opinions changed. I wonder why. Of course she was bought out by a title. So angry.

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  37. How can they blatantly steal hard earned money we have all worked so hard for and we should be entitled too!!!
    None of us 50s women agreed to for go retirement at 60 to work even longer after working since the age of 16 …. bloody disgusting

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  38. I have said from the beginning that the so called government have robbed us. This is theft, fraud, robbery and they should be prosecuted and made to pay us 50’s women the money we all paid over the past 40 years plus. They are all a bunch of crooks and out for themselves. No faith at all in any government. PAY UP you robbing B******ds……

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  39. It is our money that we have had to pay in during our working lives! Basically you the Government has stolen it from us the hard working people! You have squandered it irresponsibly ie paying Northern Ireland £billions as a bribe in order for you to stay in power! You discust me with your thieving hands and ways! The soonet our Jetemy Corbyn is Prime Minister the better!

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    • Jeremy Corbyn is the same, if you read the article you will see it was all political parties who agreed on this theft to fund their own pension, he is no different

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      • How can you compare him to Blair’s Labour? 🙄 Blair was NEW Labour, 25% Labour + 75% Tory and should be in jail. Corbyn is a Socialist. Why accuse him of something, when he hasn’t even been in power. The Tories would probably shoot him before he taxed their wealth or uphold the new EU law, to tax foreign heavens.

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  40. What a set of complete w⚓️s not only do we have the worst pension in Europe the political elites are raiding the coffers. We need a new party who are willing to put this right as none of the popular parties give one shiny shite about us as long as they and their friends are ok. In other countries civil war would have broken out how can they get away with this ?

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  41. Well I think each and everyone of them should be made to pay money out of their own pocket as they gave stolen our money if we did that we would be in trouble why not them this is stealing

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  42. This is nonsense and you know it. If anyone is owed that money, it is those who were pensioners in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Their pensions did not keep up with earnings. Many of them spent their final years in poverty. How DARE you suggest that that money should have been saved for 1950s women, and even for the rest of us. It should have been given to those pensioners. The triple lock at least attempts to restore what they have lost – if they are alive long enough to receive it. But for those who have died, or who will die before their pensions catch up, that money will never be returned. I have told you all this already, and yet you repeat it again in this post. You are a despicable excuse for a journalist.

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    • ….says the woman who stated just a few days back that “Govt is made up of liars and cheats.”
      Odd that govt goes to financial/private pensions sector for advice on State Pension, eh? And pray, are you not PART of the financial/private pensions sector, Frances?
      The UK State Pension has been DELIBERATELY created (by your ‘profession’, surely?) to be AS complicated as possible, so that only the Financial Crooksk within it know how it works…and even some of those now struggle, SO complicated and crooked has it become.
      Yes, it’s appalling that State Pensions do NOT remain the same for all of us, throughout our last years, regardless of when we were born…and it’s a crime that many older people are still struggling on the even greater PITTANCE they were given as their State Pension.
      Oddly, you are perfectly CONTENT though, to see generations of women left without ANY STATE PENSIONS at all for 6/7 YEARS, because, going back to the conversation you were having where you stated govt made up of liars and cheats, on Twitter….because, EVERY GOVT since 1995 “DEFAULTED on their bond”, that ‘bond’ being their WORD, as in, for those not aware, “My word is my bond.”
      THEIR bond was that WE would have our State Pensions AT 60, same for every other woman given 60 as her State Pension age.
      Govt, made up of Liars & Cheats, as you say, has DEFAULTED on their BOND, Frances, as WELL YOU KNOW.
      You, madam, are a despicable excuse, even for a hypocrite, for no other hypocrite, save for those in government, has appalled me to the depths you have these past few years….
      “Govt is made up of liars and cheats.” – Frances Coppola
      INDEED, Madam, just such a shame that YOU stand RIGHT beside those LIars & Cheats, backing them all the way in sending us into Poverty and Suicide.
      They do say that Like Attracts Like………………….
      “Govt is made up of liars and cheats.” – Frances Coppola

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  43. What about the Uk pensioners living in in South Africa and robbed of any increase adjustment from day one. That is a nice catch, Winston Churchill’s son fought for it to be corrected without success, is Winston’s grandson aware of this theft. I am a 84 yr British pensioner domiciles in SAR

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  44. What about the Uk pensioners living in in South Africa and robbed of any increase adjustment from day one. That is a nice catch, Winston Churchill’s son fought for it to be corrected without success, is Winston’s grandson aware of this theft. I am a 84 yr British pensioner domiciles in SAR

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  45. After finding out 6 months before I was 60 that I had to wait another 6 years was gut wrenching. Also my sister who hasn’t worked for nearly 28 years will get nearly as much pension as me!!!! Why the hell have i worked all my life!!!!!

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  47. Nothing surprises me about all the politicians and their their leaders in the years past and present every party be it Tory or Labour have not got their constituents interests as the main priority they seem to forget we employ them to do what’s best for us all in Britain, its as if they are the chosen few that can do what they like to suit themselves maybe we need to make them answerable to us for all the mistakes and rediculous rules they have made

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  49. this is daylight robbery this is a crime commited against women and men as i am sure they will have raided mens pensions as well 😡more men need to be involved as they have wives sisters aunties who are being ripped of by the narcisstic elites that are running this country and getting away robbng us blind 🤬

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  50. No money has been saved because 50s women can no longer help care for elderly parents as they have to work to provide for themselves so social services are now pushed to breaking point trying to provide care the 50s women would have been able to give to their loved ones.

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  51. The extra money in the fund, if contributions had been kept-up, would have gone to pensioners at that time……and you forget that the money going into the fund is money being taken from people, thereby reducing economic activity. There are no winners here, just varying degrees of losers. The state pension is kept low so that those needing more (because of no savings/no extra pension) can claim means-tested benefits. A higher state pension basic would benefit those whose income is such that they regard the state pension as “pocket money”. So nothing much is going to change. And WASPI, at best, can only ever expect a means-tested solution. Whichever party is in power.

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  52. They should be charged with theft and fraud. It wasn’t the governments money to play about with, cheating , lying , thieving, baskets 😡😡

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  55. Richelle E. Goodrich in ‘Smile Anyway’ wrote “There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don’t yearn to reach out, but because they’ve tried and found no one who cares.” I am 64 this year, I have worked from the age of 11, I was never notified about the change in pension age despite living in the same house for many years so I’m not hard to find. I have written, attended meetings, marched, met with my MP, gone to two Parliaments but found “no one who cares” about us who has been able to make a difference. Those in power had their needs met by robbing us of our money, self-respect, dignity, security and happiness – there surely has to be criminal or civil law which can be relied on to address the all round contempt which we women have been treated with by the various Governments which colluded to back-foot us. Given that all Prime Ministers regularly meet with the Queen I do wonder if she was aware of the situation or maybe they hid their financial deviance from her too?

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  59. Disgusted at why they did this, all my plans went completely out the window, have to carry on working when planned to retire. I have paid national insurance contributions since I was fifteen and a half so to me more than entitled to it at sixty years of age.

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  60. It’s so wrong! Even as a conservative estimate, I’ve lost around £35k! Luckily, I’m fit and able, and successfully self employed. Others are not so fortunate. It’s not the principle of the raised pension age I have a problem with, it’s the suddenness. Women couldn’t prepare. And this is not equality!

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  62. These thieves should be jailed. End of. If we stole that amount of money we would be sent away for years and years. Double figures at least. Why should they be allowed to steal from everyone who trusted them. It was a case of I’m all right and have secured my future, self everyone else. When are the British people gonna stop sitting back and allowing these scumbag thieves to tread on us like we are nothing. JAIL, JAIL, JAIL THE BODY LOT OF THEM.

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  63. I am one of those women. This does not surprise me at all unfortunately. I have had to use my savings as I couldn’t work past 60 because of I’ll health. I am now going to be living in £164 per week thanks to these vile, greedy people. Our government shows more thought for immigrants and sustaining foreign aid than looking after it’s own pensioners. Shame on every one of you.

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  64. This is disgraceful , the pond life that took this from us will never have to worry about their pension, because we’ve subsidised it !!! Makes my blood boil , I am 64 now and still having to have to work full time as I am the bread winner as my Husband has Cancer . I hope they rot in hell selfish pigs all of them always overpaid for doing nothing for us!!!!

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  66. Dig deeper find out the ministers who actually authorised the refusal to pay into the fund and if there is a criminal basis recover from them or their estate as you would any other thief or criminal because that is what they are COMMON THIEVES !!! The concept of personal liability has been introduced into law apply it !!!!!

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  67. They just want us to die before we get any pension. I stated work 14/8/72 my 15th Birthday the deal was I work pay my tax and could retire 14/8/17 I kept my part if the deal. I may not live to 66 like many others who have been worked into the ground.

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    • Aye,I fully agree ….but the money to pay for the migrants and illegal immigrants had to come from somewhere… why not steal it from the British public!!!!

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  69. We have been robbed of our pensions. I wasnt informed in any way that my retirement age was rising to 63. When I found out from a work colleague I didn’t believe her I hadn’t received anything from the government! I changed my job to something less physical only to be told by another work colleague (again no letter from the government) that my retirement age was rising to 66!!! I am now nearly 64 I have paid my dues and have paid in enough to claim a full pension. Who is my money going to now then. It’s disgraceful and wouldn’t be allowed to happen to any other minority group of any colour or creed.

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  70. I worked since i was 16 . I have copd. Glucoma an 2 degentive disc . No way can i work till im 67 . I was bo5n sept 1960. I think i put enough work in to retire at 60. Put the 17 to 30 year olds off jon seekers and into work and put retirement back to 60. Manual workers cannot carry on to 67 . Office workers push a pen they dont hod carry with bad backs knees etc. Warehouse heavy lifting . Road workers the list goes on. Bring retirement age down. Let us enjoy a bit life before we die

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  72. If they were ordinary people they would be put before a judge, how can they be allowed to get away with this? Robbing us of what we paid in for years? Seems to me the rich can do what they like and get away with it, in this case leaving millions of 50’s women like myself without the pension we worked hard for, and paid in for.

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  73. Well it should be taken out of their pensions and put it back onto our funds. As usual they can have good pit of money and relax where as for us working extra 6yrs and why so the fat cats that run the country can sitll and enjoy our rightful money.

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  74. All this complaining will get us nowhere. If this was any other country, they would be out on the streets protesting. If you all feel so strongly, make a stand, do something that is going to make the government listen or shut up.

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  75. And ladies don’t forget not only are they stealing our pensions, as we are NOT pensioners until 66 we don’t get any of the benefits pensioners get, like free bus passes and cheaper travel, prescriptions and probably lots of other stuff – its a lose lose for us.

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  76. We need our pensions we paid in for. Bad management to save money had made this happen. They should be ashamed of themselves and pay us what we need. Ministers retire early and recieve pensions far exceeding our needs all wrong. Give us our money now and stop wasting money on overseas aid and railways we do not need.

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  77. Disgraceful they should all be held to account they even sold the lottery to the Canadians for their pension fund they will be alright while we have nothing for working our whole lives the stress people are under worrying about heating bills food etc I hope everyone remembers this when they are looking for votes.

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  78. This reflects the lowest state pension rates in the G20.A Properly funded pension scheme was made unattainable through lack of investment leaving our pensioners living in penuary with little it no chance of making up the shortfall

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  79. Thanks for highlighting this.
    Absolutely disgusted that I have to work till I am 66 due to the fact that there had a shortfall in funds. I have raised 4 children who work and contribute to the system.
    I feel very let down and my husband will be drawing his pension before me.
    Not his fault of course but successive governments wriggling out of their obligations
    As I said disgusting

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  80. So how can we have justice? How can the Treasury be brought to book? We 50’s women are still out of pocket to the tune of £40,000+.We did what was right, NI contributions paid at source, we had no say in the matter, so where is our money. It is criminal that this has been done to us.

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  82. So what should we do now this scandal has been exposed
    Are government pensions safe anymore
    How will this affect future generations
    Is there any point of paying money into a government pension when we cant trust them to deliver
    Will successive governments just keep extending the pension age for both sexes
    Maybe pension policy should be managed as a cross party issue and not left to the government of the day
    The tory governments austerity policies have been used as an excuse to wipe out the welfare state
    If we dont have enough money to live then we dont have money to buy and the government cant tax what we dont have
    Its a downward spiral.and wont work

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  83. Thieving bastards, there ALL at it cant trust any politicians today, THERE DESTROYING GREAT BRITAIN TO LINE THERE POCKETS AND THERE PENSIONS, GREEDY BASTARDS. GREAT BRITAIN WILL TURN ON ITS HEAD SOON, CIVIL WAR HAS ALLREADY STARTED YET PEOPLE ARE BLIND.
    REMOVE THE. ” C” CERTIFICATE.

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  84. Thieving bastards, there ALL at it cant trust any politicians today, THERE DESTROYING GREAT BRITAIN TO LINE THERE POCKETS AND THERE PENSIONS, GREEDY BASTARDS. GREAT BRITAIN WILL TURN ON ITS HEAD SOON, CIVIL WAR HAS ALLREADY STARTED YET PEOPLE ARE BLIND.
    REMOVE THE. ” C” CERTIFICATE.

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  85. I was born March 1954. The date for my pension has been changed four times that I have heard of (never received any letters), for us ‘lucky’ few, born between January and April 1954. I am now 64 and still working, but should have retired four years ago. By my calculations, with 40 years paid into the system, (and that was by 2009) I will have lost over £28,000 by the time I actually get my pension, calculating on £100 per week. Doesn’t sound a lot to others but it means a lot to me!

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  86. Using “rape” to describe the “stealing” of pension money is awful. Why do you see that as your “shock factor” to intice people to read the article when it’s a disgusting and horrific act that mentally scars both men and women. It’s rather disrespectful of all victims/survivors of such horrible events.

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  87. By raising the pensionable age of women from 60 to 65, the government has deprived me of five years of pension to which I was entitled. At a very conservative estimate of say £100 per week multiplied by260 weeks, Ihave lost over £26,000.This is aggrevated by my giving my time to be an unpaid volunteer at my local library, archive point andpark.Itmakes one wonder what the money that I have saved the govetnment (or of which I have been robbed) has actually funded something.

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  88. Disgusting worked since 15 and am still working and still paying national insurance. Not only robbed me of my pension but are still robbing me sickening.

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  90. Disgusting behaviour from the people we voted in to power to provide a “true” government to look after our country and the wellbeing of this countrys pensioners. I have worked since the age of 16, never lived on benefits and now have to wait until the age if 66 to get a pension I should have received when I was 60. I am absolutely disgusted.

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  91. Thank you for this…its he first time I have understood how and why they conned us from our pension rights… cross party collusion all well paid pensioned MPs

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  92. This post makes me absolutely worthless to my country I have worked full time from the age of 16. I took 10 months out to have my 2 babies. Then the childcare was shared by parents and granDarenth. I have recently had breast cancer hip replacement and spinal surgery. The latter not receiving any sick pay. I am 61 years old still working 30 hours a week and one full day caring for my grandchildren so their mums can work and I still 5 years to work on minimum paye of £7.80. The government are greedy and shameful. What a corrupt world we live in 😢

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  93. This is an outrage. The financial rape of 1950’s women is outright daylight robbery by a few who seem to think they are above the law. Are men’s pensions to be tampered with next? If they can get away with robbing women there is no justice and the law is an ass.

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  94. I have worked since leaving school at 16 took 10 months out to have my babies then returned to work sharing childcare between parent and grandparents. I’ve recently suffered ill health breast cancer hip replacement and spinal surgery the latter two caused from heavy lifting at work and now I have to continue to work for another 5 years because I can claim my fully paid up pension. All lost to the greedy corrupt government whom we have no choice but to trust

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  95. The first 15yrs of work I worked full time for one employer and they didn’t pay in my stamp. I don’t have proof 60 years on.
    The rest of my life has been on short term contract and zero hours. I don’t have a pension. I feel like a third grade person in the country. Why have companies been allowed to get away with this? I feel robbed of my rights.

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  98. But the voters have kept them in power I’m at a loss that the richer get richer and the working class get poorer and we as a country vote to keep the status quo. We can’t complain about what has been done but need rally around to stop it from continuing

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  99. It is theft! They stole our money! Why has nobody taken out a police charge and gone to court? One single person. How would they answer that charge? My pension is fully paid up. I have been medically retired since 60and yet they still keep my pension. This is my money! They live in hope I die before I get it at 67. Thieves crooks and nothing else. Meantime they have huge private pensions paid from their huge salaries paid by us and can retire at an average age of 55. I wonder what they will do with the pittance of a state pension when they get it. I just want to have mine so I don’t have to live if my husbands small private pension that he had to take early to look after me!

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  100. We have continually been raped and ignored by government who will not put tax up to gain votes. Norway and Denmark copied or NHS System and enhanced it. Yes they pay more tax but are looked after in later life

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  101. I retired at 60 due to ill health of my husband 4 years ago he died 18 months ago..
    Not only do I not get my state pension until 66 yrs I have paid in since I was 16
    I no longer get widows pension as that’s stopped now just 52 weeks payment
    I am also not entitled to any of my husbands state pension as the rules have changed in that too.. he only managed a months pension before he died just turning 65 and he paid in since he was 16 yrs old
    Triple whammy!!

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    • Oh Karen, it’s so unfair for you. And how many other women give up jobs and lives to become unpaid carers, either for partners or aging parents. It all leaves me sickened and ALMOST speechless. I’m 65 and still having to work, even though I received my pension last year, as you couldn’t possibly live on it. We all have a story to tell, and we need to harness our anger to demand reparation.

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  103. Absolutely appalling I won’t get my pension till 66 lost my husband when I was 57 he never got to claim a penny of his pension and worked all his life now I’m living on saving because no one want to employ you at 61 plus I’m not physically fit enough to do the kind of job that are available worked hard all our lives to end up scratting to get by they should all be ashamed but because we are women no one gives a damn 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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  104. Can we not use ‘rape’ unless we’re actually discussing sexual violence. It’s an incredibly triggering word even for those lucky enough not to have been raped (yet)

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      • I wrote to my MP asking for help as a woman born in 1956 who had no notice of the pension changes etc, and at 62 am still working full time as my husband died at 56. Now I realise why Bernard Jenkins would do nothing for me!!! He basically told me people were living longer deal with it!

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  105. It’s the unfairness which gets me. So people in same year as me at school have been collecting their pensions since March and I have still 2 years to wait. I am of course Aug 1954
    Justice and fairness

    Scenario 3 school friends in same year and class of grammar school

    Birthdays
    6th Sept 1953
    3rd Jan 1954
    23rd Aug1954

    Started school
    Sept 1958
    Jan 1959
    Sept 1959

    Left school July 1970. Time in full timeeducation
    12 Years
    11 years plus 2 terms
    11 years

    Started work
    Aug 1970

    Retirement date
    6th March 2018
    6th March 2019
    6th July 2020

    Age at pension date
    64yrs 6mth
    65 yrs 2mth
    65 yrs 10mth 13 days

    Not sure of fairness and justice here.
    Youngest person receives 1 less year of education
    Youngest person works 2 years 3 maths longer

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  106. I was finished from a well paid job at the age of 61. I studied , worked sometimes over 60 hours a week. I now have to work as a cleaner, but what you forget is that the company pensions that the 60 plus still pay into is also lost. This so called goverment for the people have robbed us. They expect us to vote for them . I don’t think so.

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  107. Well it’s ok for them. I’m in a situation where I’m 60 this year. I look after 4 parents with varying conditions from physical to memory disabilities, copd and a heart complaint. I also look after a granddaughter 1 / 2 days a week. I myself have cll a form of blood cancer of the white cells. Perhaps I should put all parents into homes. It would save me a lot of time and cost more money than my pension!

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  110. It’s really disgusting what the gov have done. I’m not in my 50’s but my relatives are and I’ve been asking for years ‘what have the gov been doung with that money- prob putting it in their own pocket?!’ Seems i was right. It’s not a benefit, it’s an investment via tax in to a pension plan & perhaps if the gov cannot manage it correctly or be trusted then it should be taken away from them, taxes should be lowered so people & employers can use their extra cash to invest into a private pension plan and manage it by themselves, at least then individuals will not be having the rug pulled from under them.

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  111. I’m one of the women who has not received my pension at the correct time and am very annoyed by government actions The people making the decisions have not had their pensions affected It is disgusting

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  112. I.m 63 still working. Got 40 years stamps.i.m told I have to pay N.S.all my working life. Then my money is taken away. All us women pass 60.find it very difficult and hard to keep working. We may live longer. But our bodies. Joints etc still deterate at the same age.35/40 years working is truly enough. We’re tired.getting up and facing another day. I.m working part-time. No way I could do full time in the job I do.x

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  113. I’ve always said it would be cheaper to pay us our pension and give young ones our jobs than to pay out a fortune in benefits to younger couples with 2 or 3 kids

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  114. Absolutely appalling, I don’t think any MP can be trusted or believed either past or present. They tell us what they think we want to hear and nothing we should and are entitled to know. 50’s women are thousands of pounds out of pocket because of these greedy fat cats, not one of them are worth the effort of putting a cross on a piece of paper. The ones responsible should be sued by every affected woman.

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  115. It is such a shame to read this and realise I could have retired with my husband instead of having to continue working, I’m so tired now I’ve had to reduce my hours so have a pittance to depend on but I’m not as poor off as some of my friends. Just shows how the government needs to be more transparent and why should some benefit more than other it’s scandalous & was it legal?

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  117. Unscrupulous selfish people, it’s time they were taken to task over this and may other actions they have taken over the years. They are not for the British people, only in it for themselves!

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  118. I’m struggling to follow the logic in David’s article. The Lynes article it references makes a deal about the National Insurance Fund surplus at the time, and potentially using this to pay benefits. However, the principle is that the fund builds up a surplus during periods of economic growth, as during the recession cycle payments will exceed receipts and the fund will reduce. This was borne true by the recession that followed shortly after the Lynes article, where the surplus was significantly reduced and has had to be topped up by treasury grants. If it had been spent as Lynes suggests this would have placed a greater burden on taxpayers at a time when this really wasn’t needed.

    David then links this to the present day, and arbitrarily ringfences 1950s women as the “victims” of the abolition of the treasury supplement in 1981. It’s a leap that isn’t substantiated in the article, and it isn’t clear what should happen now? Should we seek to recover (plus interest) the tax payments foregone by individuals and companies since 1981? Is David arguing that state pension ages should remain fixed at 65 for men and 60 for women?

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  119. It’s not just 50’s women who are loosing out I was born in 1960 and now have to work till I’m 67 that’s 51years of paying in I think the government should be made to pay this money back and let us have our pension both men and women should be able to retire at either 60or 65 both the same 😠😠

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  120. Disgusting and disgraceful, to blame this on poeple living longer, it’s been a total mismanagement of the pension pot and do the politicians care? No, because the politicians don’t need their state pensions to survive on, they are rewarded with massive private pensions, all politicians make me want to vomit, they are interested in one person, themselves

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  121. This needs to go public we need all women to strike to make government aware we are not putting up with this !! I am 64 worked for 42 years will not get my pension until 1 week before my 65 th birthday !!
    Approx £42,000 I am owed
    I have friends who have died
    Friends who are having to still work through sickness and I’ll health !
    We where supposed to be enjoying retirement
    Yes we all worked hard give us our money back NOW !!

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  122. Also this is why they say they will not stop the discrimination inflicted by the government on seniors who have their state pensions frozen based on where they live in retirement. Pensions frozen in Canada but not in the USA etc it’s a lottery, some seniors pensions are frozen some are not even though ALL state pensioners are entitled to cost of living increases.
    Manage

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  123. Absolutely disgusted to think that these people have been able to get Away with what they have done to us women born in the 1950’s

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  124. It’s not just the pension not received, it’s also the extra National Insurance contributions paid out over that period of up to 6 years transition from 60 to 66. For some unexplained reason my last 9 months of NIC will make no difference to my state pension – and no, not because I’ll have reached maximum pay out

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  125. Elephant in the room! Stop the foriegn aid budget 10-13 b£ /yr pay it to the 50s pensioners who have paid in for 45 years +

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  126. I have worked all my life since I was 15 and looking forward to my retirement, now that has been ripped away, I am 63 now and have to work another bloody three years, for a pathetic pension at the end. The government are all cons, they make sure they are sitting comfortably though.

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  127. This is so so wrong we have been robbed… And no one cares have to work beyond what I had planed. Which is extremely painful. Due to injuries caused by nursing… Rather give what’s rightfully ours to so called refugee who pay not a penny disgusting

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  129. I don’t know how the government has got away with it…we must be mugs but so long as these politicians have got their big fat cat pensions they don’t care.
    Surely to Change the retirement age for women with little warning is some form of breach of contract. It has caused me financial hardship because I retired owing to ill health at 55yrs because I thought I’d get my pension. Originally the deal was we all pay money in towards our pensions to access at 60y so how could they just change it suddenly? Although some might live longer there will always be a ceiling on longevity …there are not many living beyond 90y and many die before like my husband who died at 62yrs who paid into it all his working life. What happened to his contributions? It’s true politicians are only good at feathering their own nests. It ought to be challenged in the courts….cant believe they have got away with it. It’s bad enough for our generation but for our kids they will increase the age to get your pension hoping folks will drop dead at their desks.
    Also while we oldies are sitting taking jobs the younger generation who are enthusiastic and full of energy will be waiting for someone to die to get a job. …dead men’s shoes. There will be high unemployment of the young and so the government will end up paying out benefits instead of pensions because there are only so many jobs.

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  130. Therefore why can’t the government be taken to court for stealing from the pension pot in order for MPs pensions to increase?

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  131. had to finish work before my pension was due..robbing me of 30 odd thousand..because my daughter needed help with her premature twins. it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know THAT ALL politicians are out for number 1..( with the exception of Andy Burnham) I have worked hard for 45 years of NI stamps and am treated very badly. Widowed 18 years ago have never been in debt or asked for any help. things will NEVER change some of us are intelligent enough to know that..

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  132. Absolutely disgusting. I can now have state pension at 66 and 5 months. It should be lowered to 60. I like every other woman have worked since I was 15. Jobs are not what the used to be. More is expected. Worked hard all my life. It’s a slap in the face.

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  133. I always believed that OUR N H S money was to go into an Untouchable Pot along with Pensions ! Have we been deceived ? ?

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  134. As long as politicians pension are ok it’s the attitude of ‘bugger the plebs’.
    Would not expect more from the shisters that govern this country.

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  135. An absolute disgusted BRITISH CITIZEN. AND NOT A PROUD ONE AT THAT.

    The way our government has treated it’s women citizens is appalling. Plus what about the people who have died and not been able to claim their pensions. Where has and did all that money go. Thatcher, Blair, Major etcetera etcetera are and were corrupt bastards. All they are and where interested in was power, greed and finally their back pockets.

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  136. Thanks for the explanation but people living longer is now a myth given that so many elderly and disabled are being euthanized by the NHS to free up beds and reduce care costs. This is a reality folks and people need to wake up.

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  137. It’s time to sort this injustice out, there is a swell of information & knowledge & now action is building . You are not getting away with this , you may grin, but you can’t hide any more. All the groups are uniting together to fight for our Pensions. Support grows from every corner, the Unions & the like. It’s just going to get bigger & bigger!

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    • So annoyed I am 63 and should be retired now .
      I would work full time if I could but on chemo drug 4 days a week and need to sleep.
      So if I want a life in work 16 hrs a week.
      So I live on my NHS pension which was intended to give me extra in my later yrs.
      I had a small private pension which has now gone. Quietly passed off with government.

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  140. Scumbag politicians and ministers who never go without!!!

    Enraged pensioner who has worked all her life
    Now 60 and should have be receiving my state pension.

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  141. I was born 1948 so could retire at 60 I married had 1 child and went back to work full time uk gov put me on married woman reduced pension contribution no internett then was not told it effects pension in later life, when I was 32 women born in the 40s were told about this I then paid full contributions until I was 60 so could not qualify for full pension of 39 years working- pension claimed was £84 .50 week so I am still working at 69 years to top up my pension my point is they were not the only ones who lost out by the government at least they did not need as many qualify years and could get a larger pension Do the Maths no one makes a fuss about us.

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    • You do the maths I have lost over £ 40,000i have to wait till I am 65 . 3 months I am still waiting I would rather have something than nothing and I am still having to work at 64 . 7 months

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  144. Based on statistics of life expectancy of men/women in West of Scotland is the decider in these age thresholds for state pension age. Contributions we have all made over the years fund the benefit system, some many deserving cases. How dare elected MP’s, who will retire at 60 (or before) with large lump sums and gratuities rob hard working people. Most working 40 years plus with an expectation now of anothet possibly 10. Disgusting!!!

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  145. Shame on all of them. We paid for over 40years to be robbed… If this was any one but the government they would be in court for embeselment.. We won’t let this drop.

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  148. Folks, check out your water pipes.
    If they re orange , it means they re made of copper and you will get dementia.
    The government will make you sell your property to pay for your care, there by robin your children further,
    Plus they re probably working for crap wages too, welcome to great wonderful Britain.
    Oh by the way everyone else still get full benefits, while you continue to work till you drop.!!!

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  150. What a disgrace, how can we have any confidence in politicians when it is apparent that each and everyone of them are just out to feather their own nest. I also understand that woman paid a higher contribution than men to take into account an early retirement date. The government have kept very quiet about that too!

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  151. Polititians with a few exceptions (Denis Skinner) are all self serving crooks who couldn’t care less about the people of this country. They have broken the pensions contract. My wife has had her retirement date changed twice. Making a mess of our plans for the future.

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  152. This is no surprise. Looking forward to the judgements of ICE and parliamentary ombudsman on the maladministration cases for WASPI women

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  154. Absolutely shocking! I have worked all my years paying my national contributions for what!? Government hoping I will pop my clogs so they don’t have to pay out for my pension! I strongly believe I have been robbed by the very people we elect to protect us from inequality yet it now looks like the politicians are the corrupt beings out to get the ‘working man’. No wonder politicians have got such a bad press…. they bring it on themselves. WASPI is an organisation that is standing up for women’s rights to their pension. The Government should have been up front and let the public know what was happening to our pensions so we could have been more prepared for the £48,000 or so that I am now missing out on due to the government moving the goal posts and making me work longer before I see a penny of my pension, if God spares me that is! Shame on the politicians!
    (Born 1959)

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  155. There must be equally between men and women. It cannot be right that women receive state pension five years earlier than men. This is the real issue, especially as men on average live three or more years less than women.

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  156. It’s criminal that us 50’s women have to suffer. My pension now would make our lives to much better and after all I have got 45 years plus paid in in full but that doesn’t count for much

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  158. What a disgusting lot these people were/are. Nobody in this country should have to struggle. Yet here we areSTRUGGERLING. EVERYTHING has to wait until we are 66. Thats a lot of money to loose. Im so sorry that we of a certain era a living longer. God help the youth of today. They have nothing to look forward to. Nothing but hard graft and disappointment. WELL THANKS FOR NOTHING.

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  160. What a scandal!! Thsnkyou for the information. Us 50 s women just want to know what to do next. 6 years and more than £40,000 lost! This wouldn’t be tolerated by other different groups of our society. We need action!

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  161. My giddy aunt there truly is not an excuse for this. Dismay at such travesty. We voted unknowing how our lives would be effected. Those who were fortunately not young enough so escaped truly are sorry about our sisters misfortune.

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  165. Rob a train and you get shut away forever. Kill a child and you are repeatedly given a new start with a new identity. It’s no surprise that successive politicians think it’s morally acceptable to steal women’s pensions without giving them a chance to prepare for it. Not only did they do this once, they did it twice. I hope justice will be served…..

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  166. I’m totally disgusted at the way we 50’s women have been conned. The government made the banks and lenders pay back missold endowment policies and PPI. Who’s going to make them pay back our missold pension.

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  167. I started work at the age of 16 have worked in the same
    Place so far for fourth years and it’s manual work I was hoping that I only had four more years to go but now I have 11 years can’t see me managing in my job for 11 more years so will be paid off through capability then what I am owed my whole pension it’s not a benifit it’s my money not a handout from the robbing government

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  168. Disgusting. 50s Women deserve their pension now. I could do with it now. Instead having to do more hours as my husbands health has declined.

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  169. This is part of the price of the so called democracy….the main parties take it in turn to be in power….and it is never in their interest to pay into something when they can avoid to as this in turn either means taxes have to go up or they take the money from elsewhere. Both of which costs them in the amount of time they stay in ‘power’…..

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  170. They should hang there heads in shame how do they sleep at night knowing they are cheating women most of who would have worked since 15 thinking as they reached there 60 th birthday they may be able to retire. to then to be told it’s changed it’s shocking ,our pension is low any way compared to other country’s .

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  171. David, the government doesn’t need a ‘fund’ of taxpayers sterling to pay for pensions, it simply keystrokes the money into existence. That’s how a modern monetary economy works – we don’t need tax or NI surpluses to ‘fund’ anything. The government can, and does, create money out of thin air, we can never run out of money to pay for anything – ever. We can run out of real resources and labour – and that is where a government has to be careful not to induce inflation. As noted previously though, the people who have lost are those in the 80’s/90’s etc whose pensions weren’t rising in accordance with earnings. The ability to increase pensions or reduce the retirement age now is a political choice, it’s not and never will be a shortage of money.

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  172. Too right!
    Politicians of all parts of the spectrum just fill their own boots and us lesser mortals to suffer
    Make all politicians have an austerity cut equilivant to our own and watch for the outcry

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  173. No surprise there then…meanwhile some of us are killing ourselves trying to make ends meet…what sort of retirement do we have to look forward to? Me personally? A crippled painful one!! Thanks very much you theives and robbers!! My mother died at 63 where did that pension pot go? I’m suer there were others too!! Oh I forgot…you only care about yourselves!!!

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  174. Yes, born in 1956 and working full time from age 16, paying full national insurance towards my state pension at 60. That’s what I was led to believe anyway. Not true though because the pension age was changed by Government! The other joke is that my NHS Superannuation pension is being held until I can retire. I have worked in the NHS paying into my pension for 42 years come September and should have been able to go at 40years service. There is no financial benefit for me working more than 40 years but hey . . .the thieving government have said I can’t get my state pension yet and I’m still paying off my mortgage. And working full time. With any luck I might get to retire in another 3 years maybe. Thanks for nothing by the way!

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    • You could still retire and receive your NHS pension that is what I did at 60 and I will receive my state pension this November

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  175. It’s our money at the end of the day paid in from working hard. I was looking forward to my retirement at 60 but now it’s 67 that’s if I make it. So all of MY money just melts into government funds. It’s scandalous if anyone else but the government stole this amount from hardworking people it would mean prison. Nothing but rotton thieves .

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  176. Its theft. Its fraud. Its lies. Simple. Those responsible are criminals. This is not a benefit. This is MY savings. I had no choice whether to save with the government or elsewhere. I worked from the age of 15. Never ever claimed a ‘benefit’ in my entire life. I had a contract with the government with every payment I made that I would receive my pension from age 60. I got my first letter to say I would not get my pension until I was 62, just 3 years before I turned 60. A year later another came, informing me I would not now get it until I was 63. The year before I was 60, another letter informed me I would have to wait till I was 66! Apparently, we are living too long. I was sadly invited to attend 4 funerals last year. Only one of them was for someone older than me. The rest had never lived long enough to collect their pensions. So where is their money? These politicians are criminals. They have robbed me of approximately £36,000. Why are they not being arrested, tried and sentenced??? They think they are untouchable. I think they are about to find out they are wrong.

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  177. Disgusting!!! Women’s ’ pension age should be reinstated to 60 years of age & all payments refunded as appropriate.
    These ministers should be exposed as the greedy fraudsters that they are and be forced to contribute to the deficit.

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  178. I was never in any doubt that successive governments Raped the pension funds but did not realise the extent of their corruption every 1 off the above named fkrs should be jailed its because off them that women like my wife who has worked since the age of 15 is still bloody working

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  179. These are the governments who took our pension contributions for all of those years. People who were voted in to protect the rights of the people & in whom we put our trust. How appalling that they looked after their own pensions & decided that 50s women would be a ‘soft touch ‘ in this despicable pensions theft. How dare they!.
    This was a blatant, heartless act, which, if people had known was happening when it began, would have been branded , criminal.

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  180. That is absolutely disgusting & as a 50s woman, I’m appalled that we have been duped this way. The politicians are just con men in suits & should suffer the same consequences other con men get!!! Daylight robbery with the working classes paying the rich. Bring back Robin Hood!!!

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  181. I should have retired in july 2013 at 60, but the Dirty Thieving Tories decided to tell me in December 2012 that I wouldn’t get my pension until I was 64years and 10 months, giving me 7 months notice to find 5 years lost income, my plans for looking after my grand daughter went haywire, I had then to work an extra 5years. Seeing they’re all sorted to receive their big payout on retirement. Grrrr it makes my blood boil.

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  183. The SNP have worked tirelessly for the WASPI women only to be shut down by the three main parties. Check out Mhairi Black or Ian Blackford for more details on how to campaign against these policies

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  184. disgusting i’ve worked since I was 15 years old was expecting to retire at 60 have NOW got to work till Im 66 that’s if I live that long
    SHAME ON YOU

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  185. I am gob smacked by this story and so disapointed in my country. I have always believed our country would look after us in our old age with the money we have struggled to pay in. I was 62.8 years old before I could retire. I struggled to work in a stressful job to get to 62.8. Bad health and a genetic disorder meant i didn’t quite make it. I have just been in bad health since. I know lots of women struggling to work in there 60,s that should be retired enjoying some retirement.

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  187. When you reach your State Pension Age, DWP still drag their feet. Having been affected by both the 1995 and 2011 Pension Acts, I finally reached my SPA in July, having replied online to their invitation letter to apply for my State Pension. Didn’t hear anything, called them twice, but for whatever reason couldn’t pass their security, they sent someone out to my home to confirm my identity, then received an email to call them as they required further information – guess what – I couldn’t pass security! One question they asked was the mobile number I had over thirteen years ago!! So the frustrating situation I am in is that they want me to contact them, I want to contact them, yet I am prevented from doing so because I can’t pass their security questions, so how on earth I am supposed to make contact with them – crazy!
    So having waited until I am almost 65 to get my pension, and my first payment due next week, I am no nearer getting it than I was a few years ago. It appears to me that they make life as difficult as they can for you, and even when you finally reach your SPA, don’t count on getting it.

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    • Annette, this is ridiculous – I might not be able to remember mobile numbers from 13 years ago myself. if I were you get on to your local citizens advice bureau or ring Age UK for help or even contact your MP if he isn’t already sunning himself somewhere.

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  188. The purputrators of this major dereliction of duty to ensure the rightful money due to all retiring pensioners including the 50s Women should be sued until the pips squeak. They are selfish individuals who feather their own nest and care not a hoot for the hard working people who are now suffering.
    SHAME ON YOU. …..I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL

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  189. Politicians just don’t care. Mad long as their money pots are being filled, to hell with the rest of us. Apart from it being almost impossible to get a job in your late 50’s, there are also people like me in poor health, and also the ones who have to give up work to care for elderly relatives. This whole country is a disgrace!

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  190. Done in secret as they knew this would undermine our welfare system including pensions and people would object

    Not true they can’t repay 50s women -they can share this problem with everyone and dock all pensions -by affecting everyone slightly rather than causing great harm to one group of older women- the pressure to sort this mess out would grow

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  191. We all feel that successive governments have acted unethically, even fraudulently. I am furious to have been cheated out of 6 years of pension, and will continue to struggle financially until Sept 2019. However, what is really eating me up is the feeling that I can do NOTHING about it. Signing petitions gets us nowhere; lobbying MPs to argue on our behalf gets us nowhere; media coverage highlighting this injustice gets us nowhere. The feeling of impotence is even more harmful to me than my fury at what they have done to us.

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  193. There are a lot of names in that list who were in power and it has come to pass that all that was written about them was true. Tony Blair Margaret thatcher were from the same cloth. He was a Tory in a labour overcoat. He was vile as was all of them. Some are dead but those who remain live in total luxury with pensions they don’t need because of their wealth. But us those of us who have worked damn hard all our lives will never see that bit of luxury because the greedy inept corrupt bastards who led this country robbed us of our rights. No matter who’s in power do not trust them. This is clear evidence of it.

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  194. Absolutely disgraceful. Justice must prevail!
    Please, this must be taken to the highest level of enquiry. We cannot allow Elected Governments of any persuasion to undermine the Electorste.

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    • Nothing new, we have all had our pension ages extended and company schemes robbed. The age should have been 60 for all. Likely of course the money didn’t go directly to politicians but was spent on demands of other more vocal groups.

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  196. Robbed of six years pension, robbed of interest on my depleted savings. My planned retirement ruined by politicians . Was told I would receive full state pension as 30 yrs contributions. Now rumour says it’s 35 yrs .

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  197. I am one of these women. Nearly 65 with now a year to go. My health is compromised. I’ve paid 47 years into this fund to enjoy my retirement. Absolutely shocked & disgusted that all 3 parties have deprived me of a happy & healthy retirement.

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  198. Disgusting they took my money with a promise i would get my pension at sixty we don’t all have the money the politicians have justice should be done

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  199. A shocking read which clearly outlines the offensive decision made by our elected members of parliament. This needs to be picked up again and the present government made to respond !

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  200. This was disgusting for us women born in the 50s our pension taken from us with no time to plan, and no notifications, we have paid into the system working, we have been let down and something needs to be done this was unfair justice and action needs to be taken let’s get this sorted please.

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  203. Typical look after themselves at our expense. That is theft no matter what way you look at it. Governments rotten to the core. How many other countries are guilty of this.?

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  204. Theft. Pure & simple theft from many women who have never claimed any other benefits as they’ve worked lower paid jobs whilst brining up children

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  205. Join the WASPI Campaign ladies, (women against state pension increments).
    The more we shout collectively the better.
    I am 61 and shan’t get my pension till I’m 67. Despite paying and still paying national insurance since I was 16 years old. I have a rare cancer that is incurable and I may not even see that pension at all! So so unjust!

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  206. If all were alive they should be tried and treated as criminals. We went through life hard working for our pension, we believe was ours from the age of 60. Do you think we would have voluntary given our money to the government to squander. I have found out in the last couple of days that I’m not getting my pension now until I’m 66, this is out if order big time. We need all of our pension owed which we know is highly impossible but done recompense for being robbed. I am outraged and I should think government parliament mp’s with their wages could club together and pay us. Where is our sovereign in all this? who should be looking out for her subjects …..

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  208. Born 1955 worked since I was 15 and paid national insurance ,, hard jobs nursing🤱 and lifting patients when no hoists and manual handling in force to protect us, now osteoporosis , arthritis , painful joints dragging myself up to still go to work at 63 and got another 3 years to go !! Still paying NATIONAL INSURANCE but my pension will not go up !! Estimated £43, 000 Iv lost ??
    yet my his husband who was born in 52 has retired at 65 with full pension ,, we had planned to retire together but no Iv got to continue working till I drop !! I’m not against equality and equal rights but how can anyone say this is equal rights ?? I have written to DWP requesting copies of any correspondence they sent me informing me of the change to my retirement age ,,, needless to say they don’t even respond by acknowledging my requests ,, I have made official complaints no reply forthcoming , someone really needs to sit up and listen 👂
    Or it will cost the government more in the long run as people in these situations will end up long term SICK 🤢 on benefits !!! Come on
    Waspi woman through and through

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  209. Absolutely appalling. There should be some way of redressing this. It is calculated robbery of those of us who were led to believe that we would be looked after. Instead, we are left to fend for ourselves. Immoral!

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  210. Daylight robbery and done without any consultation of the electorate they robbed. We must continue to fight this. It was not for reasons of equality but pure selfishness. Carried out to line their own pockets.

    I’ve worked all my life and contributed for many many years and my retirement age has been put back until I am 67. Who wants their child taught by a 67 year old? Really? Teaching is a stressful profession anyway – made worse by successive governments.

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  211. It is disgusting that our government are getting away with this – what happens if you suffer health problems or are in a physical demanding occupation – please don’t say there’s help out there cause that’s all reserved for ???

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  212. Utterly disgraceful. I have lost 2 husbands through cancer, both hard workers who died pre-retirement age so they will never receive their state pensions and I worked 44 years full time and still have to wait till age 66 before I get a penny. They talk about people living longer and how expensive it is but what about the money they save with people who never get to pension age. It’s absolute daylight robbery. Don’t know how they can show their faces in public.

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  213. We must keep fighting for our pension. Which is not just for 50s woman. It is for everyone in the future. The government has been involved with making us suffer. Due to thinking of them selfs. With the way we have been treated. I will not stop supporting this group. Even when I finally retire in three years time. At the grand old age of 66yrs. God willing I will still stand up against the government. For my son and my daughter, grandchildren’s futures. They will not be allowed to destroy our lives. We must go on fighting for our right to our pension. Which we have paid in to all our working life. Not work to pay our pension for until 66yrs or 67yrs, it just keeps going on and on. Which is suitable for the government me or you.

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  214. What can I do to complain and campaign to get what is rightfully ours? Please tell me and I will do it as I’m sure many others will.

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  215. What the government have done should be classed as illegal and they should be compensating all of the women affected by this decision They did not send official notification well in advance that this was going to happen and like others I found out in conversation There should be laws to protect people from being cast aside when they have worked all of their lives for this pension The government are not looking after the people that have worked all their lives They are not looking at the fact that a lot of women look after children for their families that saves the government millions and they carry out other caring roles that go unpaid Something needs to be done about this

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  217. Love the way they blame Thatcher a women herself and the only one dead who can’t defend herself. More likely the other lot who are still alive in there bought & paid for houses. Shame on them all. I bet all their wives are sorted! Off with their heads in times gone by . I now have to work longer because they stole from me

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  218. It has become very evident over recent years that people don’t stand for election to serve the people but to serve themselves . First we have them claiming ridiculous expenses then we find they allowed this to happen deliberately to our pension fund meanwhile ensuring their pension is safe as we have to pay it . Born in 1954 the government has moved the goal post twice initially I should have retired at 60 now they tell me I must work until 2021 in order to claim my pension which they now call a benefit . As a nurse caring for elderly people I currently have to look after patient only a few years older than myself . Nursing is a hard job how when we were told all those years ago that we must constantly lift heavy patient causing untold damage to our bodies do they expect us to work eventually until we are 71!!!! Trust me I am struggling now . Yes people are living longer but the illness and disease are still prevelant today we still get arthritis people are still having strokes I can only assume they want us to die before we retire . An honourable government would look again at this situation .

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  219. Well as I expected. All politics are bent and only line there own pockets. They do not give a dam about ordinalry people. I have worked for over 48 years and now have to work for 16 months before I can get my pension that’s if I survive

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  221. What really annoys me is that the government presumes everyone has a private pension. I have only been able to work part time as I have a son with additional needs and I couldn’t afford to pay into a private pension.

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  222. This is also why those of us older pensioners who paid in for over forty years have the lowest pension on Europe yet we are supposedly the 5th richest country in the world!!

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  223. Where are the lawyers in all of this.Its a major scandal. A lot of us fifties women are in ill health doing hard manual jobs , some women are living in sheer poverty, living on the streets, and how many have passed away.Why can’t the courts be challenged at the highest level. Compared to the Europe pensioners our state pension is a pittance. Someone has got to carry the can for this.

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  224. Can’t this disgusting state of affairs be put before a court of human rights?

    No wonder so many people are leaving the U.K. Like me they are disgusted with the way they are being treated by a corrupt government and they get away with it!! 😡

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  225. This is disgusting. I was lucky that I was born in 1951 and got my pension when I was 61. We were all working at age 15 and it’s a scandal that the women born just after me have to wait till they are 64—67.The government has saved a fortune not paying out pensions to these women. I agree the pension age had to be raised but not in this way.

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  226. It’s a disgrace I worked from the age of 15 until 56 when I took redundancy as I had had 2 back operations and could not continue in my job. I have a very small pension but will now not get my state pension until I am 66. I am now trying to work part time to supplement my pension as I have no other income. I am more than sure that the people who were involved in making the decision to change the pension age for women in my age group are having a a wonderful retirement without any financial worries SHAME ON YOU ALL

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  227. Corruption from the highest, its time we were given back what is owed to us, they give foriegn aid to other Countries, bring in thousands upon thousands of gimmigrants while us pensioners struggle to survive, ABSOLUTLEY DISGRACEFUL WHAT THESE TRAITORS HAVE DONE TO US BRITS.

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  229. By the time I retire at 66, I will have worked for 50 years 6 months. Deduct from this the seven years I did not work due to looking after my children and that’s still over 43 years.
    This is a lot more than the pensioners who live around the corner and have been receiving pension for over 25 years and the benefit cheats who will receive a full pension when already cheating the state.

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  230. All of them are hand in glove together you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours all of the above vallians are a gang of jump up liars and don’t deserve anybody’s vote. I have worked from the day I left school and a few months off when I had my two children. So from Fifteen years to sixty I think I deserve my state pension at sixty. I am now looking after my grandchildren so there parents can work

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  232. I have to work another 3 years 11 months and 3 days to get my pension at 66 years of age, I am so tired now, they are hoping we all die off and wont have to pay us. many will do through sickness like cancer. and out poor children wont even get a state pension when they hopefully reach their pension age.

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  233. Disgusting . And I don’t suppose anyone in government right now will bother to put any of this right . Typical that they keep themselves safe and leave the rest of us paying the price . I bet not many of them still work at 67. We thought we could vote in and trust our chosen candidates ….what’s the point if you can’t ?

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  234. Furiously sick! Breathe. How cunning & cruel.
    Just felt the blood drain out of my weary body.
    Need to take some action against these theives.

    Thank you for the truth.

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  235. THIS IS THEFT out and out stealing and then trying to hide the theft by moving 50s stats pension age without notification to hide the theft. THIS needs acting on now . I’m Feb 54 Have lost £35,000 plus of my contributions and still waiting my state pension they should be named and shamed all of them action is needed NOW!!!!

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  236. I think it is day light robbery to the 50s woman l am 64 and due to ill health l am now living on my private pension they did not think you can become ill due to working in care and work and not being able to work passed 60 its all right for them sitting in goverment behind there desks

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  237. This is plain and simple theft they should be forced to pay the people born in the 50s there pension and have it backdated they keep.saying ahh but we are living longer but how many are dying before they get the pension you are not talking about a year here they have added 6 years on absolute joke

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  238. OK, so is anyone gonna do something about this? They r all disgusting and immoral robbing bastards – so long as they r OK, screw the working class eh!

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  239. This is shocking we have worked all our lives and deserve our pension I don’t get mine till I’m 67 I should have got it next yr

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  240. It’s about time these government pensions were brought into line with normal state pensions. If they want more let them pay towards it themselves and let those 50’s women have their due rights or at the very worst some transitional payments on their pension.

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  241. I think they should be brought to account for their criminal fraud. They have brought despair to thousands of people. How can I vote for criminals. The only party I will vote for in the future are the party that is going to rectify this criminal policy, there will be millions more like me

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  242. Shameful !
    How do these people sleep at night!
    We need to start a petition to get answers in Parliament ! Heads should roll across all parties . Fuming doesn’t describe it 😡

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  243. I had breast cancer 5 years ago! List my business as a sole trader due to my illness and treatment. I’m unable to work as I suffer mwith mental illness. I live alone have no income, and are absolutely in the brink! I so need my pension to live and survive! U am now 64 and have another 3/4 years to wait! I will have to sell my home as
    I cannot afford the bills. I live alone as was divorced in 1992. Children have grown and fled the nest. They cannot support me as they have their own lives to pay for!
    I have worked hard in my life paying tax and national insurance have been a law abiding citizen. And you the government are ruing my life, as I should be retired claiming what is my entitlement to a State Pension now! You have put me in debt if at least £40/50,000! By your dispickable behaviour towards us Women born in the 50’s! SHAME ON YOU

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  244. Not just 50s women , it’s men as well and the future generations to come . This needs to be taken to court they have looked after themselves and shafted everyone else 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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  245. There all thieves as far as I’m concerned should been hung for what they’re done to other 1950’s women. Me being born in 1954 I worked since I was 15 years old brought children up doing jobs in unsocial hours to care for them. Last job in dementia care home working 20 years at this job on nights until my own health stopped me. I was on walking sticks told to sign on and get a job cleaning. Bloody laugh I’d say why the hell should they get so much pension when if they done a job as I did it would probably kill them

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  246. I too am in the same boat. Years ago when I met my husband we planned my retirement at 60 so that we could spend quality time together. He is nearly 70 and I’ve still got to work for another 6 years. I feel robbed of time. None of us were consulted just told this is what we are doing. How come they can afford to send money to other countries it’s our money they are wasting.

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  247. I had to work until 63+ and retired in dec 2016 and I’ve just worked out they’ve stolen £24000 from me that I’d actually paid into pensions. Disgusting

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  248. Why am I not surprised. Yet more poor treatment of women. We are the easy targets and yet without us there would be no men in politics! This is absolute robbery and treachery against those who do so much, working, raising a family and caring for elderly relatives. Thank you for that.

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  249. I was expecting to retire at 60 as I have rheumatoid arthritis but in the last year of retirement I was informed that I had to work until I was 63 and a half before I got my pension so that was £28,000 that the government had off me they owe me big time but I have decided l am going to spend all my money when I get old and I am going to live until I am at least 100 years old so then they will have to keep me that way I get my money back from the thieving government. So we will win in the end.

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  251. I now have to work till I am 66 before I can get my measly state pension . I have worked since I was 15 years old . Am still working , although not 100% fit but as no ofher income , needs must . I am entitled to that pension but have been robbed of 6 years mobey . Shame on you all who agreed to this .

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  252. This is sacrilege. We have all worked hard all of our lives believing that come 60th anniversary year we would at least have the option to retire. Many of us have health problems but our dignity meant we continue to work. In the long run you are driving us into poorer physical and emotional health, all of which will have a negative impact on the services we will eventually overwhelm! I’ve worked in the voluntary sector, poor pay, invaluable work I love, but no works pension. You would have been lost without us, we’ve already saved the country a fortune, and enabled and enhanced the lives of our communities. Please give us the respect we deserve now!

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  253. Refund us every year you failed to contribute and brhng our retirement date back to orignal state age oe 60 i dont want to work anymore seen 4 of my managers not get past 65 so had no enjoyment of their large final salary pensions!!!

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  254. Disgraceful worked all my life so looking forward to enjoying my retirement with my husband ( who is 8years older than me ) to now wait another 6years…bloody shame on you…

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  255. So have we paid for your pensions to allow you to retire early in luxury. I am disgusted and will think twice before I vote for any off you again.

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  256. Surely the robbing of pension funds is illegal. I have worked since I was 16 years of age. I have paid my contributions to that pension fund. Has anyone actually explained where the money went to? Basic pension I am entitled to – since they “amended” the weekly amount, sorry that should say “lowered”, is £156. That’s multiplied by 52 and then by 6 equals the grand sum off – £48,672. To date the government have withheld £12,792 approximately of my hard earned contributions. I think they have committed an illegal act. Heads of privately run corporations were liable to prosecutions were they not? Somebody should be held accountable. Simple.

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  257. If a private company were to steal money from the company pension pot they would be prosecuted. It begs the question how many mp’s are liable for prosecution for stealing our pension fund money without our permission

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  259. It’s a disgrace. If I had known when I was 16 I could have had the same numbers of years to plan, as men did. I have not been treated equally or fairly. I also did not receive any letters of notice. I found out , just fou d out, not written to! , . I have paid 42 years of full stamps, The Maximum Required is 35 years . I now have to wait six more years for my pension… So why have I also got to pay another 6years of stamps? I should be receiving my pension, like all the 1950,s WASPI women, NO LETTERS, NO NOTICE, NO PENSION, we paid. The DWP are also to blame with a complete shambles, no letters, can’t answer our complaints… The government needs to admit, by here has been a huge, miscarriage of justice here.. 3.5MILLION women have been robbed.

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  260. Corruption again. We are supposed to be able to trust the Government. The NHS is the next secretly privatising it all . Ambulances and such. Sold off a lot the virgin who know how to get money back by failing the targets . It’s all around us. Sick of it.

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  261. I have been denied the ability to plan accordingly by not being informed of these changes. I divorced 9 years ago after 33 years of marriage to a man who never provided for me and our children. The courts gave him half of everything (but he got more) plus a quarter of my pension because he didnt work and had none of his own.
    I calculated payments on a new mortgage based on retirement at 60 but could not afford it so was forced to rent. Had I known that I was to work another 6 years I could have bought myself a house. I have been cheated of a secure future abd will probably loose my home because I won’t be abe to afford it when I retire. I feel I have little to look forward to.

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  262. Politicians should be made to account for their failings us women have worked damn hard for our country to no avail
    They should hang their heads in shame
    I have never seen a poor politician yey

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  263. Disgusting how they have treated women re the SRP some are having to keep working although they are unfit as the cannot afford to retire

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  264. I’ve paid in 42 yrs so far & got another 8yrs to go,, that’s 50yrs of paying in. It’s nothing short of theft what they have done to us. I’m still working now but not in good health, how I will cope for another 8yrs is beyond me. There must be some way to get what is rightfully ours,, before we all pop our clogs.

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  265. I have contributed to the economy of this country by working Full Time for 45 years. This year, my 60th I should have been able to retire gratefully. But no, due to the increase in pension age I will need to work until at least age 66. Robbed and disappointed. Politicians are all corrupt and just look after their own interests. Thieves! That’s what they all are.

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  266. Absolutely disgusting I bet they retire when they want and have a big fat pension not like us hard working people who have been working since 16 years of age and at 63 still working till I am 67 doing a job that a young person should have disgraceful

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  267. Disgrace.They are also happy to let me be a carer to my husband in my “retirement” and when he requires residential care will be happy to take the money from our home which we have both worked hard for !!

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  269. I was born 1945 and always worked, I payed full NATIONAL INS then was told to pay married woman’s stamp and it wouldn’t make no difference to my state pension but it did.i now receive £70 a week

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  270. The only letter I have received from the government was to tell me that when I was 60ys I would receive a full pension in my own right as I had paid enough contributions and now 11 years later I cannot have a full pension unless I go back to work and pay mire contributions make me feel physically sick

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  271. Then take away the colossal sums MP’s are getting when they retire at 60 and give it to us who have worked for it. Ill health now puts me in a position that I probably won’t be able to work until I’m 67 and will land up with next to nothing for a few years. Absolutely despicable 🤬🤬

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  273. We have all been conned by various governments which have pillaged our pension funds and national insurance. Nrxt time I get a phone call from company chasing mid sold pensions I am asking them to sue the government on a no win no fee basis… Any takers?

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  274. I left school at 15 & have worked ever since. You are told to work hard and contribute to society. Now the goal posts have been moved and we have to work even harder! Why? I don’t believe we are all living longer. Tell that to my Dad that died 6 months before his pension.
    Age 64

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  275. I bet it didn’t effect all those ministers through the years either. If it did, they’d hardly feel it with their payoffs and fat wages anyway.

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  277. It’s fraud. They have taken our money and are not giving us back what was agreed. Anyone else would be locked up. Hate all government ministers they are useless make horrendous decisions and most definitely do not live in the real world. How about they all stop robbing us with their expenses claims and their high wages they allow themselves and pay out what is deserved to the hard working women who deserve it more than any if them.

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  278. Arseholes an likes of him can claim for 2nd or 3rd home’s, claim humongous expenses, let’s face it that’s all the Tories have done since they were formed is rob the working man 1 way or another and will continue to do so while they are in power, the public need to stop being sheeple.

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  279. This is worse than I thought it was. The biggest robbers are the MPs, they have made sure that their very large pensions are ok. Don’t know how they sleep at night. Sack the lot of them. I’m now sixty two and without a pension until I’m 66. Living off my husbands pension and our savings, which won’t last long.

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  280. No matter how much parliament is lobbied against the attrocios theft of women’s retirement we will never win. I have worked since I was 16 and was so looking forward to an easier life. I hope that the parliamentary workers enjoy their pension stolen from me and others born in the 50s. At 62. I still have to work. My friends of 66 / 67 now are enjoying golf and ladies who lunch and voluntary work. I will be too old to enjoy it by the time I get there. Thank you to the government for taking away part of my life.

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  281. Absolutely despicable. 50’s women should be reimbursed for what has literally been stolen from them. I have had to stay at work an extra 7 years to support myself.

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  282. Absolutely despicable. 50’s women should be reimbursed for what has literally been stolen from them. I have had to stay at work an extra 7 years to support myself.

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  283. If only someone had the wealth and the knowledge to take the government to task over this, cases where won when it was discovered that endowment policies were mis sold, through the same reasons, i.e not enough money in the kitty due to bad investments etc surely the people have been mis sold a pension , paying into national insurance will guarantee you a pension of x amount when you reach 60yrs for women and 65yrs for men. It’s blatant lies.

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  284. They should everyone one of them hang there heads in shame They say karma is a bitch I hope I am still around when she comes looking for them.

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  285. I think the time has come that the Queen should step in and call an emergency meeting and reverse the age back to 60.
    She should also close parliament and make a new committee pay back the pensions owed.
    The pensioners of Britain should bring the country to a standstill through strikes and demand justice for bad management and misrepresentation.

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  286. So yvette Cooper you was supposed to have fought our corner!! Are you happy with what you see or are you just grateful you have retained your seat?? You are more interested with what happens to refugees than your own electorate don’t expect to be voted back in I’m years older than you don’t have pension money to reap after working since I was 16yrs stand down or stand up for your election promises

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  287. Also, not only have women been robbed of their pension, having to work longer, when for most of their lives they’ve planned for 60, but also the government, hoping that most won’t make it to 66/67 years of age, will make on these pensions. If you die, before you reach pension age, they will rob your pensions, (which has been paid into from your wages, for most of your lives) but the government will only pay a small amount to a husband/partner. Surely this money which they have paid in, should be included in any estate that is left in your Will – not put back into the treasury!! Maybe I’m wrong – but if bank were made to pay back mis-sold PPI, surely the government should be made to pay back, what doesn’t belong to them!

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  288. I think its totally immoral of any government to do this to working class poor.because that’s what we are going to be poor.having worked frim the age of 15 paid my tax and national insurance brought up my children while still working I might add.they also contribute tax and national insurance so why should we have to live our lives out on the breadline .prices for everything has gone up so the little pension we will get wont go very far.we won’t even get any extra for the six years more that we have to work still putting our money into the system.i was less than a year from retirement when this was forced on me like many others .we had no say in the matter.the government are hoping we die before it has to be paid out.its unforgivable..

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  290. We send billions of aid to other countries. Why oh why can’t we look after our own pensioners. The Government should be ashamed of themselves.

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  292. Sorry, but I’ve seen this posted a few times on Facebook and it is seriously wrong. Some of this is courtesy of Paul Lewis’s Money Marketing.

    Let’s bust some myths.

    There is no pension fund, it’s a myth The notion that NI contributions pay for your pension or that there is a pot labelled “state pension” in the Bank of England is not real. Taxes have not been earmarked for anything since the Gladstone reform. All tax take goes into the Consolidated Fund. NI itself is not a fund and it is not insurance, though a fiction is carefully woven around it to make it appear as if it is both.

    The “fund” makes contribution rules, which link paying enough NICs to getting a full state pension, confuse the public into thinking that, somehow, the money in the fund is theirs – saved up to pay for their state pension. But the fund does not exist except outside a set of accounts.

    Myth 1: The fund is used to pay benefits. No. The money used to pay benefits comes from the Consolidated Fund. This is one of the government’s account at the BoE. It gets topped up from the National Loan Fund.

    Myth 2: I’ve paid for my state pension: No you have not. People believe that, because they have paid their NICs, they have somehow paid for their state pension. That confusion is caused because each year of contributions counts as a “ticket” towards your pension. You need 35 years of tickets to get a full pension and at least 10 years to get any pension at all at the reduced rate of 10/35ths. Fewer than 10 years and you get nothing.

    But that system is no more than an assessment of entitlement. Even when 35 years have been paid, most people work another 10 years and still pay NICs right up to state pension age.

    The fund deceives people into thinking there are certain benefits that are good – because they have somehow been paid for by the recipients – and other benefits which are bad – because they are a burden on taxpayers. It is all nonsense.

    Myth 3. Taxpayers fund government spending. No, and this has been the case since 1971 when the U.K. came off the gold standard and the £ became a fiat currency. This means there is no quantity of a commodity (gold) that limits the amount of money the government as access to. The U.K. govt can create as much money as it needs. If it chooses to pay a decent state pension it can do. There is no fiscal constraint.

    Please find out more by learning a bit of economics here: Modern Monetary Theory for an Independent Scotland:
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/1466864300089196?view=permalink&id=1477825302326429

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  293. British government – Greedy, Corrupt, Shortsighted, Deceptive, Morally Criminal. I was born in 1954 and have been robbed of 6 years pension after working in the NHS for 35 years.

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  294. If any bussiness had done this he would have been done for fraud. There are always means of crucifying Joe blocks whilst the government’s make sure their pensions are fine and Joe blogs can’t do a thing about.

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  296. I received nothing in writing advising me my pension age changed. When I was 59 I called to request a pension forecast and was told if I retired in 2015 I would need to have paid 30 years national insurance contributions to receive a full pension, however, if I retired in 2016 I would need to have paid 35 years national insurance contributions to receive a full state pension. I asked how many years contributions I had accrued and was told 43 but I could not get a state pension until I was 66 at which point I will ( if I live until then) have paid 49 years contributions. I asked if I could stop paying Contributions now and was told no. I asked how much my pension would be increased by due to paying 14 years more contributions than required and was told no increase. One would have thought with the totally inflated salaries earned by government ministers and high level employees that they would have managed to employ someone who could actually balance the books.
    I feel cheated and disgusted at the way the government has abused the women born in the fifties.

    When a defined benefit pension scheme goes bust The Pension Protection Fund helps in some cases by taking over the company assets in the scheme ( read the conditions) and in many cases pensioners will receive the same amount of pension they were due prior to the company going bust. It appears to me if the government are incapable of basic maths and investment strategy they should be looking for a similar group to manage them properly rather than making the women of the fifties pay the price for their arrogance and indifference. This is essentially theft – stealing circa £42,000 from each of these women. The ministers who mismanaged the state pension scheme should be made to pay back funds ( like the proceeds of crime act ). I am disenchanted with the people in government who are running this country into the ground.

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  297. We should all be out protesting at this atrocity. Did these ministers think we wouldn’t notice or care? We should have all of them who know or knew stripped of their titles and their pensions stopped or confiscated to make up this massive shortfall and our pensions given back to us with interested added.

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  298. The journalist/editor of this article needs re-educating.
    I can’t read beyond this headline because of the use of the word rape to denounce a financial crime/scandal.
    I am absolutely outraged.

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  299. Now i understand that at age 31 this doesnt pose as much a problem as it does for others on here but, i dont understand why if the government are screwing us over the way they are why do we still pay them with OUR taxes to do it. (Poo i.e but) if a shop ever treated u like that ud never use or give them money again but thegov cn keep bending u over n u all keep paying for the privilege. Ever since Thatcher smashed the unions you have all seemed to of forgotten what people power actually is n how the gov is ment to SERVE us not rule us. Please seriously some one answer my this question, if everyone and their families effected by this refused to pay any tax untill the gov listened n remembers they are public servants n not master, really even if just 1 million people was to do this what could they do?? Remember guys we are the ones with true power because WE are the ones bringing the money to the table, we the people are ment to be the masters of this country n we the people are ment to be the ones who profit from our hard work n of u dont u get rid n put a new gov in that will serve the people, that is the way democracy is ment to work. But in my short years i cant say ive witnessed much democracy in our so called “Democratic” state. N a little off point but concerning the 50s generation, didnt millions of ur perants generation die in war to stop this kind of careless authoritarian type of system being forced upon us it just makes no sence to me.

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  300. I found out age 55 when I was made redundant from the bank that it would be another 11 years before I received my state pension, not 5 years.
    Consequently I am still working albeit part time and on minimum wage aged 61. I feel I’ve been mugged by our governments.
    Trust none of them, it could be you next!

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  302. I had to work another 2 years despite having over 40 years full time national insurance contributions to receive my state pension and then did not receive the new £150.00 per week rate. I was born 1953. The government and all these ministers should hang their heads in shame.
    I worked from 15 years old and could not retire until nearly 63 to claim my pension. They probably hoped we would die before we received our pension. It makes me so angry when I see people who have never worked and who are better off for not working.

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  303. Not only was the pension age increased to 65, then 66, but in April 2016, the government raised the number of required ‘qualifying years’ (the number of years you have to pay in to get a full pension) from 30 to 35, and any years that you paid into a works pension were disqualified from the ‘qualifying years’ so, having worked for 45 years, retiring at 60 in 2015, at the time I retired, I had 34 ‘qualifying years’, plenty enough for my pension, the year after I retired, they upped the period to 35, meaning I will have to accept a reduced pension when I get it at 66, I will therefore lose not only 6 years of pension, but also £30 per week for the rest of my life due to the government moving the goalposts several times over.

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  304. Wow! We have always known MPs are largely there to feather their nests – apart from a few genuine ones – but what your comments have revealed is staggering. How is justice for 1950a women rectified? I am a WASPI woman and we are asking for Fair Transitional arrangements. That is all. Yet the government won’t even discuss this! The government does NOT represent us so why should we pay THEM?

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  305. I am one of these women and do feel angry that I will not receive my state pension until I am 66
    During my early days of employment there was no equal pay n women were workin for lower wages than most men and also normally the main parent dealing with the school run and holidays and after school parenting . We were in no position to put money on s pension scheme n so have been left high n dry in our sixties . Many men can still retire at 60 as they have paid into a scheme all their workin life as was the norm then unlike many women born in the same era who have to continue working
    Hope there can be a successful outcome to this matter where these women are treated fairly . That is all we ask .

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  307. Why do politicians and governments repeatedly pick on the most disadvantaged in society, because they can, they’re like hyena’s picking off the weakest in society?
    I too am affected, born in 1956. I had a paper round from thirteen and started full-time work the day after my fifteenth birthday. I had no children and worked solidly (for ten years I did two jobs) until ill health, rheumatoid arthritis forced me to accept early retirement at the age of 55. During that time I paid tax and full NI contributions constantly. My husband died two years after I finished work aged 54 years old. I received no physical help in nursing him, and I lost his financial contribution. I am now 62 years old, and managed to get part time work in a local supermarket to supplement my small private pension. Most employers are not interested in older workers, especially if you have a disability. I felt I was treated like a criminal when I tried to claim Disability Benefits and declared fit for work even though I later had to have a wrist replacement 3 years later and my knuckles are now badly affected. I am physically exhausted and worry that I still have to work another four years before I can receive my state pension and am very angry at the way we have been treated by politicians, especially thise who claim to help the disadvantaged in society.

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  308. I’ve worked since I was just 15. Always thought I would retire at 60 with pension. I had to give up my job at 60 through Ill health, which was agreed by doctors, to be told by some young person at benefits office I was well enough to do part time job so nor entitled to anything after going through a very stressful health assessment. What happened to my 40 + years of paying national insurance. Could never afford private pension needed all my wages to live. Flamingo g robbing politicians. My poor hubby a prison officer also can’t retire till 66 the job will kill him !!!

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  309. Calculated theft.
    No warning, no letter explaining my pension would not be paid as agreed. Had to rely on media for information.
    Six years longer to wait.
    Still paying a full stamp.
    The money has been stolen from me it’s not a benefit. I have paid into thefund the government can not lawfully change the rules.

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  311. Shocking! This country is an embarassment to its people.
    I like many others are destined to being in abject poverty for many years …possibly till we die due to the greed and lack of considersation of people in power. They will reap what they sow…..

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  312. It also deprives pensioners who choose to live in certain countries from getting ANY increase in their pension at all. Meanwhile billions have been spent on so-called foreign aid… charity begins at home.

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  313. These in power are a pack off thieving bastards if l had known all them yrs ago i would have opted out there ok all the money they are earning robbing people who has a right to the pension who have worked hard since leaving school and in sixtees now and not allowed anything thieving gets

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  317. By the time I receive my pension I will have worked 51 yrs that is criminal if I live that long having poor health but these greedy politicians hope I do die before I can receive my very well earned pension they should be made to lower the age of woman born in the 50s 2ys is long enough to raise the age of retirement not 6 yrs is another way of ripping us off

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  318. Short sighted, selfish , hypocritical people who don’t care about ordinary hard working citizens .We struggle so much to try and balance our lives and to also think of others by donating to Charity ,being a carer to our ill loved ones or friends .This help Saves the Government billions of pounds each year and they can’t even pay us a pittance of a pension which we have worked hard for and paid into for years .Thanks for nothing .Disgusting !!!!

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  319. How about looking into the new system. I was a pensioner before the it changed about 2 years ago. New pensioners get £150.00 per week i receive £128.00 per week. I worked full time for 35 years and part time 3 years. Do you think that is fair. ? Please answer my question. i was born in 1948

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  320. Why is this not getting brought up in parliament?
    Do we have a pensions minister so she can get a decent pension and retire early unlike the rest of us.

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    • Yes we do he is Guy Opperman and he doesn’t believe the government should pay a penny more to 50s women. Mind you he has made sure he will get a big MPs pension and minister’s pension for himself by choosing to be elected in a safe Tory seat.

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  321. And meanwhile politicans sleep well with their rosie pensions My story(im zlmost 70)is a catalogue of mishandling by the national contributions that led to me having amuch reduced pension Ironically i worked for the (then)DHS and because it was before1974? I could not get any pension from them My story has been taken up by my then union and also a solicitor that was at the time helping me with a claim after a very bad accident -to no avail -exasperation isnt the word!!

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  322. These people should’ve been prosecuted for what they’ve done absolutely disgusting people are sick of these awful disgusting people. I work full time was looking forward to my retirement then I find out I have another six years to work my job is physical and hard work but like all the other women on here can’t get another job that’s easier because nobody wants to employ you when they find out your age. I bet their wife’s aren’t working over 60. Disgusting

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  323. Disgusting – they should make immediate amends to this. They can pull out millions every time foreign aid is required anywhere in the world – they should start by heeding their own people

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  324. Join the WASPI group. They have got legal representation and are challenging the government. They are trying to get compensation for the 50s women.

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    • I would say join BackTo60 as well – they are the organisation taking out a judicial review against the government to get their money back. Waspi are pursuing maladministration through the Parliamentary Ombudsman.

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  325. Well thank you very much to all those money grabbing, uncaring, selfish, pocket-lining people, we foolishly trusted to ‘do the right thing’ with our hard earned money.
    As a 50’s woman, I have nothing but total and utter disgust for them.
    I hope they enjoy (not) their ill-gotten spoils!

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  326. Yes it is disgusting.
    What we need to do is get one of our ladies to stand as an independent MP in an area where we have the most WASPI members. Get all of the WASPI members in the area and their families to vote for them. Start with one then move onto another area.
    Every WASPI member should write again to their MP’s and clearly state that if they do not support our campaign then you will not vote for them. I have done so and will continue to do this.

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  327. Shocking and not to mention the personal problems associated with this theft! We have worked hard and played the game but thieving government have changed the goalposts with no thought for the difficulties they have caused us! I am disgusted with the way our country is going.

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  328. This is an outrage these MPs were nothing but thieves they should be hauled before the courts and put in jail and made to pay the money to the people who should have it in the first place the people who were entitled to it

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  329. I received a letter from nestle who I have my private pension with informing me that my pension would be reduced as my bridging pension had finished when I rang them they said my pension had been calculated up to the previous state pension age so I am now 500pound short a month and cannot claim my state pension till January 2020 it is disgusting what they have done and the govorment should be made to pay

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  331. This has affected me!!! I was 19 days over the deadline and had to wait for 3 years for my pension….
    I have lost over £16,000 !!!!! I want it back they owe it to me, I worked for years for it.

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  332. Corrupt thieves…the government hope alot of us will die before we ever see our pensions. It’s disgusting how we’ve been treated…they aren’t interested in us only in featherIng their own nests. Makes my soul want to roll over and die.

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  333. I am absolutely disgusted by this theft of not only our pensions but our years that should have been spent with our families

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  334. This is diabolical and if it had happened in the business and banking world people would be held accountable and be punished instead it is us hard working women paying into the system from the age of 15 the DWP have told me I have 47 qualifying years when you only need 30 and I still can’t have my pension until I am 65 and 4 months old. Plus women who have never worked and paid into the system can have a full pension at the same age as me if their birth year was 1954 so nothing seems fair and something really needs to be done to bring this situation to Parliament so the right thing can finally be done for robbed 1950 women

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  335. Absolutely disgusting that the government supposed to be working for the people can leave this age group so penalised that lives are so difficult..
    We worked hard from 15/16 year old and the rules of getting our pension that we paid into have been changed so many times .
    Causing physical and mental upset .
    Today’s news says women are not living as long as expected ,so that’s the answer they want people to die so they don’t need to pay us what we deserve ..
    They have stolen our money and nobody is taking responsibility to put things right … Criminal …

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  336. I’m devistated not just for me but all other women who had this bombshell dropped on them with no time to make alternative plans. We are not saying changes should not happen we are saying this should have been fazed in. We have been treated with disrespect!!! Compensation should be paid

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  339. I am also s 1950’s woman worked since the age of 16 an extra 6 years added to my SPA retirement plans totally ruined as my husband is 6 years older than me will be 72 when I get my pension. I cannot understand why the media will not pick this up especially the BBC this should be exposed asap and the people responsible held to account. and the DWP should be forced to pay back every single penny to all women affected – we really need to push now the nice approach is only helping the robbers.

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  341. This why my husband has to try and stay in work . While battling myloma . Even though he can retire in feb 2019 . I am battling to work part time I have diabetes and arthritis and high blood pressure . We are born in the same year 1954 . But my husband can retire at 65 . I must wait till I am sixty six and a half. The government hopes we will die before we get anything . Its shocking to read why this has happend . If this was in the private sector . It would have been a criminal offence .

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  342. Liars, cheats and thieves- all of them. Only thinking of themselves. I’ve worked over 30 years in palliative care. I don’t get a protected pension and the final salary scheme went years ago – and I have to work an additional 6 years for my reduced state pension. Shame on you all. Doubtless you all sleep well on you plumped up pillows and convincin yourselves it’s all for the good of the people😡Shame on you all! No wonder we live in a country that puts no value on caring for others less fortunate or ill in our society. You’ve broken us……..

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  343. I was looking 4ward to my retirement …I’ve been working since I was 15yrs old …I had 2 & half yrs off to ave my kids then went back to work ….thats over 40yrs altogether…I’ve done enough & deserved my retirement & that lot Robber Me ….put it right….I found it hard to get a job at 60 now on Minimum wage how’s that right

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  344. Mi is there no one listening. Some jobs you can’t do at this age so you carry on regardless others needing to cover for you or you retire and use what savings you’ve got or use your work pension what happens when it’s gone end up with mental health problems time we got together to get what’s owed to us

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  345. Why is this not being treated as fraud? Like many others I had my SP age raised by 6 years. When I paid my first ever NI stamp I agreed to pay NI in order that I might get a pension at 60 which was the retirement age at that time. On a whim the government have put the SP age up this defrauding me out of £48, 000. Like many wome born in the 1950’s we had no warning or no time to make other funding arrangements so that we could still retire. My husband ,(and most husband) od a few years older than his wife so it now means that by the time I am old enough to claim my state pension my husband could be too old and frail to enjoy a joint retirement or worse still he could possibly be dead!! Every couple should be allowed a joint retirement after all the years they have worked. Stop immigration and make it tougher for younger people to stay on Job Seekers allowance get them out to work to support their own families. The older people have done their share and deserve to receive their state pension to allow them to slow down and enjoy life in retirement whilst still healthy enough to enjoy it.

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  346. Those that go out to work everyday fund those below who can’t or won’t work and fund those above who squirrel their funds abroad.
    In return for our working lufe good behaviour payment if insurance and taxes MP receive gold standard pensions and Civil Servants ridivulous pay increases.
    Hiw they argue equality wuth men on pension payments when it is yet to be achieved in the workplace is beyond me

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  347. Those that go out to work everyday fund those below who can’t or won’t work and fund those above who squirrel their funds abroad.
    In return for our working lufe good behaviour payment if insurance and taxes MP receive gold standard pensions and Civil Servants ridivulous pay increases.
    Hiw they argue equality wuth men on pension payments when it is yet to be achieved in the workplace is beyond me

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  349. I am one of the 50 s women affected by this. How do we turn our life around after and keep our head above water knowing that successive governments have been working at letting us down. I find it incredible that they target us like this but do not fore warn of these changes so we can plan our lives. What do other folk on this ???

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  350. Utterly appalling ! I will have worked 3 more years than 60 when I plan to retire and have to wait another 3 for my government pension! I have decided to exist on a small reduced work based pension because life is to short and I want to enjoy the good health I have now.
    We have been completely betrayed by all that decided this knowing what was to follow . Well I’m not doing it at 63 neither will I ever vote again!
    It’s a major travesty planned for years without a shred of empathy for short notice and all the women involved when they threw this croc of sh….t at us . Shame on them all and their fat pensions! Disgusted !!!

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  352. Each and every one of those mentioned should be brought to justice for their deceit and total and utter abuse of this poor group of women who are now suffering the consequences for their greed. Disgraceful!!!!!!

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  355. We had to give up our business 2 years ago as my husband has Huntingtons Disease and I am now his full time carer, getting just over £65 a week to do this. He turns 65 on Sunday and I am 60 in November, but like everyone else no pension until I am 66. My husbands life expectancy is a matter of a couple of years. I will then have to try and get a job. Who the hell is going to employ a 60+ year old woman, who has been off the job scene for some 5 years and prior to that ran her own business Our laugh when we got married is that He would retire in August and I had to work another 5 months till I retired.

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  356. I lost my job with HMRC due to I’ll health..was awaiting hip replacement. I’ve been out of work 3yrs now, I’m 63 so no pension till Nov 2020!!…its a disgrace…I will have lost 6yrs pension..i worked from 1971 to 2015…..it’s just not fair….I’m now living on a pittance

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  357. Not a happy bunny to hear this. I to have to wait until I’m 66 to claim my pension. I retired at 60 due to breast cancer ( inflammory breast cancer). Because of this found I would have to claim benefits and not my pension. I have worked full time most of my life and even though I’m entitled to claim , still felt bad to have to do this. I can not understand why cancer patients are not helped more and most people I know with cancer struggle financially. Especially self employed it seems who are refused help. Cancer patients could be dead before they claim their pensions . Their pensions do not go to their family, who need help. This goes back to the government never to be seen again. Something should be arranged so we can claim our pension early if we have cancer and are near pension age. Are pension is rightfully are’s. Paid out too us would actually save the government and local council benefit help.

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  359. It’s a disgrace. I have worked since I was 15. There was none of the benefits then as there is now for people with children.
    The one thing that women my age were entitled to was our state pension. I have lost out on SIX years pension. Even my husband has got his pension before me (65)
    It’s shameful

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  360. With rising costs on household bills and food, I’m really struggling to see how to manage to eat or heat my way through to 66. Like so many of the comments left here I feel totally bereft. Having worked full or part-time when bringing up my children since the age of 15, and been told I have paid enough contributions to receive a full state pension by the time I was 55, I can not believe how betrayed by the government I feel… angry, bitter and twisted doesn’t even cover it right now. How dare government think that they can get away with this!!! I think it is illegal and hope other legal professionals will have the courage to look at this. I am sick and tired of hearing about human rights news of injustice around the globe… what about our human rights… all of our rights… us here in Britain right now!?!?!

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  361. I left school in 1969 and worked all my life until I retired in 2016 I have paid NI contributions for 46 years I am 64 next month and now have no money coming in my husband who is retired claims for me I was forced to give up my job as I had an accident on my back but when I was 50 although I worked on through it I still have to wait another 2 years before I get my pension yes The Government who took my tax and NI are the thieves here they have massive salaries second homes here and abroad they don’t care they owe me about £42,000 it’s only about £7,000.katper year not a lot to them about £144.00 per week which could make a massive difference in my life THIEVES FACT.

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  362. I always knew about the first raising of the pension age but the second is unforgivable. I am affected but because I am slightly older than a number of my friends much less so than others. Equally I have friends who are older who have not been affected at all. This was and is a disgraceful slight on women born in the early 50s, many of whom have worked all their days AND paid national insurance. I despise those who brought about this change. No one can argue that equalising the retirement age between men and women should happen but to do it over such a short period without warning, and thus no time to make additional financial provision, is just plain wrong. Many of my friends are struggling and having to work well beyond their ‘sell by dates’. How long before we have teachers dying in class roooms, nurses dying on wards, etc. Despicable actions by a disgusting UK government that is meant to look after our collective interests throughout our lives.

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  363. As one of the 50’s women who has worked all my life in the NHS, 44 years, I feel very let down. Not only have successive governments tried to destroy the NHS they have also pilfered the pension funds, and yet again it is women who are taking the brunt of this. Shame on them.

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  364. I have to wait another four years for my state pension where I thought it would have been two years ago at 60.. I have brought up my children who are now both tax payers. I looked after my mum before she died and now I am going through an awful menopause…I have worked since I was 16 years old. I feel that six years of my pension has been stolen.

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  365. Yes it all the same ,the Government stealing money ,If everyone saved all their money for their old age ,the couldn’t steal it .Is the same with all the people who worked all their life &paid in N I ,but never reach the retirement age ,where did all that money go ? .

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  366. Why cant this be taken to the courts of human rights absolute daylight robbery , i should have retired 5 years ago fully paid up and now i have to work till march 2020 while the fat cats enjoy the fruits of my labour ☹☹

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  367. Bloody disgusting robbing bastards . They should be made to pay the money back like the bhs bloke another low life scum bag

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  368. The government has robbed me of my pension money that I began contributing to at 15years 47yrs later an still contributing iv found out I’m not getting g it cos I’m living too long another shitty end of the stick for impoverished working class

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  369. This is disgusting the politicians should be made to go without their pensions so the 50s women can be paid what they’re owed.

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  370. I’m sad to say this doesn’t surprise me. It just makes me so B….y mad 😡. These people what ever party we support get to power & Di all they can to keep themselves comfy & the rest of us can go to hell in a hand cart. Sad to say if men had had this done to them there would have been a revolution! Time this was sorted, their pension pot should be frozen & the shortfall taken from there until were all on a level playing field. Never going to happen though is it!

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  371. Why don’t the politicians take a wage freeze and put what they would get into our pension pot – it’s disgusting what they get away with and we have to suffer as usual. I would have been able to retire in Feb but no I have another 6 years still to work and pay into the system.

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  372. Welcome to equality ladies get your pension the same age as men,stop moaning we all get screwed over it’s life just get on with it

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      • David I hadn’t realised you were going to be on The Danny Pike show or indeed the other lady. I was pleased that you were as I think between the three of us and the callers phoning in afterwards we covered most of it.
        Thanks again, I see you were very busy what with being on Salford Radio too in the evening.

        As always I can’t thank you enough.

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    • The issue of equalisation of male and female state pension ages is not contended. Had it just been about equalisation of state pension age then the initial rise in age should have been cost neutral and would likely have been somewhere between 62 1/2 and 65, with pension age rising for women and falling for men. It wasn’t.
      The second and third broad issues of contention are that these changes were introduced over too short a transition period and with insufficient notice for women to make adequate arrangements, given that numerous women had planned for state pension at age 60 and, unaware of the changes, had taken decisions that involved living on savings in the short term.
      These problems were compounded once the increases beyond 65 were added in and the combined transition was accelerated.

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  373. I am one of the 50s women who had to work longer to get there pension, I am 67 years old and still work, I now work part time in the NHS as I cannot live on the state pension, if I didn’t work I could not afford to tax and insure my 14 year old car, I can’t afford to buy another car, I have worked all my adult life as well as bring up four children, and now when I should be able to enjoy my later years, I have to keep working just to keep my head above water, I suggest the government members should try living on state pension and see just how far the money goes, I haven’t had a holiday in 8 years, and don’t see that I will have one in the future, unless I don’t want to eat, as that is the only way I would have any extra money as the rest is taken up in bills to keep a roof over my head and not be in debt, welcome to my world,

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    • I agree Elaine and imagine hitting that situation with six years less pension when you got to that point. We have a pension half of that of France and one third of Germany and it was us that won the war!
      I cant believe that I am fighting so hard to get an appalling pension. But it certainly has impacted greatly by denying me and 3.67 million women six years State Pension by making me wait till 66.
      We may indeed get to that point and still need to work but it will be extra money and not instead of our state pension money.

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  374. Maybe we should start a petition demanding the retirement age be returned to what is was we shouldn’t allow them to do this if we all stand up someone has to take notice surely

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  375. If this happened in private industry it would be regarded as embezzelment. These culprits should be prosecuted. They have blatently robbed the average female of this country of thousands of pounds whilst making sure of their own comfort. Its disgusting! No wonder we have no respect for politicians anymore when such corruption is allowed to go on – UNPUNISHED!!!!

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  376. When will our elected government do what they are supposed to do & act in the best interests of the people they are supposed to represent? A first step of true commitment should be to review MP’s & Ministers retirement pensions & bring them in line with an appropriate comparison…

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  377. Typical!!! women have been cheated out of their due rights to a pension at 60 – this decision was brought in by the back door and foisted on the unsuspecting public this government & prev.govs have saved billions by raising the SPA – not surprisingly many people will die without even drawing the pension they paid into all their working lives we should be able to sue the government !!!

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  378. just turned 15 when I started working that means I will be have been working 51 years when I can retire that’s more than some and a few months less than some it’s not fair I can’t say in words what I’m thinking might not be allowed I can say let down by the system

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  380. Kate Walker says
    Their short sightedness in not paying this age of woman their pension at 60 has also impacted on social care . This age group of women would have cared for there aging parents in the past but cannot do so now as they need to keep working until the raised pension age. Therefore this will have impacted onto the social care of the elderly , and our health service with elderly bed blocking. Leaving these women feeling very guilty.
    Goverments took the moneysaving option but didn’t look at the impact of their actions and we vote them in and give them this power over us instead of holding them to account ……

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  382. I have worked since aged 15 and now 60 . I will have 50 years full NI contributions by the time I get my pension , I’ve been robbed of my pension and of the time I can’t now spend with my family / grandchildren !!!!

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  383. I’m affected by these devious jokes. Surely it’s got to be illegal. There’s always money to pay for people who won’t work or who haven’t paid a penny into the system. Unfair isn’t a strong enough word

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  387. I am 60 in September and would have got my state pension if these politicians hadn’t have changed things. Diabolical how they are allowed to move the goalposts at a whim.

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  388. Whilst I agree the Govt over years have successfully failed to invest in pensions I am a male whose pensionable age has also been increased. On average women will live longer than me and I am in agreement that pension age for both sexes should be the same. I have 3 children still at school and I worry about their future – why should they fund my pension when they work when I have been fortunate to gain from the increase in property prices over 40 years. They will be unlikely to purchase a home as easily as me, and are unlikely to benefit from as good a pension when they retire. Let’s consider inter-generational fairness and not ‘stuff’ them unnecessarily.

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  389. im one of the women been robbed. shocking. ive worked sonce i was 15yrs old and paid national insurance all those yrs. now thanks to the fat cats i will still have to pay it and continue working till im 66yrs old. even though i have health problems i cannott afford to stop work if i was to recive my state pension before then i could retire and enjoy whats left of my life. So unfair😢

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  390. I am appalled that the word ‘rape’ has been used by, allegedly, well educated people in such an inappropriate context. For survivors even saying the word can be almost impossible and invariably triggering so I find it disgusting that the term has been used in such a thoughtless and casual way. I’m sure if you were unable to find a more suitable descriptor a thesaurus would have helped.

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  391. So you are telling me all the money went in the Parliamentary Pot? In the private, and I thought Public sector, messing with Pensions is called “embezzlement” punishable with a custodial sentence. If this is against the law who brings the law makers to task?
    Do we now live in a totalitarian society, do as I say not as I do?
    What an absolute disgrace, shame on you politicians that voted on this.

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  393. Thoroughly upset about this and so angry when you see the money ploughed into foreign aid, hs2, immigrants and not forgetting the EU billions it plummaged from us. The goverments of the UK should be brought to book and made to pay. 😠

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  395. Disgusted!! Work hard all your life contributions have been paid for years and have to wait till I’m 66. Yet again Britain putting us last.

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  396. This shower of thieves should be made to pay it out of their own pockets or be charged with treason as you can see some one in particular has blood on their hand the other fat money grabbing pigs as you can see are Criminals all in the same trough not one ounce of decency all little Hitlers 😡

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  398. Thieving politicians robbed the 50’s women, will any of us ever be compensated NO they only look after themselves, biggest crime since the Great Train Robbery 😡

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  399. Having worked continuously since I was 16 – no periods of unemployment and never a single penny claimed in benefits of any kind – I have just had my 60th birthday and now have to work another six years and I was never officially told. To say I disgusted is an understatement.

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  401. And how many billions has been sent to foreign goverments over the same period, this is ageism, and a disrespect to mothers and women.

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  402. Pay us our money we are owed…. I will be 64 in Feb 2019…I have asthma ( all my life ) COPD & osteo arthritis have worked all my life the only time I stopped was to have my 2 children. My body has had enough & feel I don’t know how much longer I can carry on working…have you no morals ? . Pay us the money you owe us, which will allow us to have some sort of life…As you have stolen our money to build your own nice big fat pensions.!!!

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    • I feel that the government has caused a drain on my finances.I should have begun to receive my pension when I was sixty but not yet gained it. Due to cuts, my library has been “dumped” by the local borough council and for the last four years has been maintained by trustee volunteers, of which I am one.Thus we are depriving a librarian of a paid post and I feel that by giving my valuable time, that the council is benefitting from my unpaid time. This is also true of more cuts causing volunteers providing a service in our local archive point.

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  403. Although many people are living longer many more are not able to claim their pension through death cancer is a big killer nowadays and many more illnesses claim lives before some even reach pension age

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  405. I never could puzzle it out, as we all know women on average live longer than men and got their pensions 5 years earlier?
    Please explain the logic in that.

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  407. I need to retire at 60 as I have young grandchildren and an older infirm parent to look after. I have to get a job because the pension age was raised and i dont have an income. People ( women) like myself are saving the government an enormous amount of money as we are the generation of carers but still need to work . We have the hard labour of giving birth and the years after caring for our families. It’s so shocking what has been revealed and it needs to be resolved in our favour. Disgusting report. No trust left for any government now!!

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  408. I want my money back it is mine I paid these contributions for nearly 50 years I worked all my life and have been robbed by thieving horrible politicians.

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  413. They are a total disgrace leaving some women in poverty and some either having committed suicide or suicidal! They don’t have to live on the meagre pittance and the likes of Tony Blair i despise with a vengence with “his alright jack” attutude with his property portfolio!

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  416. The government want it both ways! Keep the over 60s working and paying tax. Keeping the pension that we was due. Creating zero hour contracts that aren’t any good to anyone creating poverty whilst MPs sit back on high pay rises in their fancy houses. And the People suffer unable to pay the rocketing rents leaving thousands on the breadline unable to provide for their children and heading for eviction or to be moved out of London uprooting children from the neighborhoods that they know from their schools and their friends !

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  417. Thank you to all those continuing to highlight this injustice. It has cross party political consensus this is absolutely wrong! So government ministers take note and address!
    I like many other men and women in this country have over the last 40- plus years worked hard and contributed as conditioned to do so by various governments. I feel badly let down by the decisions made on our behalf. The country’s coffers may be full but there is definitely an air of disquiet from the silent majority and women as usual are being treated unfairly. I like many others I speak to are disillusioned and becoming politically homeless. Is anyone listening?

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  418. Born 1953 can mean receipt of state pension in 2015 2016 2017 ,2018 & 2019 YEARS apart in receipt BUT all Born SAME YEAR 1953 , last to receive will be almost 66 yr old . I personally had no choice but work almost 50 yrs before #statepension receipt ( now in receipt ) but those unexpected years of waiting has drained what £ I had saved #1950s born deserve better ! 50s born started work at 15 yr if in secondary education then add 50 yrs = 65 yr sp age ! 1954 born will av to work 51 yrs ! Young ones add 50 yrs from when u started employment

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  422. Anyone else would be jailed for fraud. Why are these people allowed to get away with what they have stolen from us 50’s women as in my case £49,800. Waiting 6 extra years with 18month notice .

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  423. This is as an absolute disgrace….this is abusing our human rights….why don’t these ministers give their pensions to these women.. haha….so many women being put in an unbelievable situation….it is nothing more than daylight robbery…..somebody should be taking the government to the human rights court

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    • So much on TV this week about Suffragettes Centenary,yet lots ignore our plight.
      I take a deep breath and come backing fighting for all women who hadn’t sufficient notice. Pensioners in general get raw deal half of French Pension one third Germany😆

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  424. What’s so sad about this is that I personally don’t mind having to work till 65 or even longer if I’m able to, it’s just I can’t afford to retire know or in the near future simply because of being born in 1955 that what hurts .

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  425. This is a disgrace! why do politicians think they have earned the right to steal our hard earned money to ensure luxury in their retirement age. In my mind they are no better than any person that has been convicted of armed robbery. Their actions put the electorate through such hardship with many people taking their own lives, loosing their homes that putting themselves in danger and worst of all deprive some of their basic needs in order to survive.

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  426. I feel all governments only look after themselves once they get into power I can’t understand why no news on the t.v regarding pensions for these woman .
    The government should be made to pay for what they have done .
    If this had happened in any eu country it would be headlines on the news
    Don’t think anyone in parliament is strong enough to take this on

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  427. Absolutely unbelievable the villains need to rot in hell for eternity as they have condemned some poor hardworking women and their families to a life of hell. Shame on you all.

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  428. Theft of the highest order an absolute disgrace bosses have been taking the Michael for years whilst the ordinary workers have been paying the price

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  430. Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who are helping these ladies to get their justice and what they are owed. This would never be allowed to steal pension monies from an occupational/ private pensions etc so why have all these so called politicians been allowed to get away with this? ( as we all know the politicians who all did this are doing very well on their pensions/salaries etc !). We all knew something had to be done with the pension equality but this is totally unfair and lets be honest everyone out there including ladies who were lucky enough to get their state pensions at 60. So, PLEASE help stand up for these 50’s Ladies and also help them get what they are entitled too and after all they have paid their money in over the years and it could have been you that this happened to!.

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  431. This is out of order we have worked all our day for this and thay have stole it of us its our money i am 62 and not working with poor health i can be doing with is money put it this way if thay can pay millions for there new home we wont our money back shame on yous lot

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  433. I am one of the women who suffered not once but twice
    I was born in July 1954 if I had been born in March I would now have my pension my bus pass and several other benefits
    But instead bi have to work even though I am riddled with Arthritis and i have had 2 hip replacements
    Fortunately the job I have is not to physical but that’s rare
    I feel I have been cheated bye people in power who we trusted to ensure our best interests were looked after but as I grow older I see consecutive government’s thinking up different ways to rob us
    Whilst lining there own pockets but have the Audacity to tell us how to live ?????

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  435. No words can describe the arrogance of these people playing god with money that was not theirs to use. I have lost all confidence in all of our politicians, is there not an honest man/woman left among them. I am a sixty four year old woman who had paid all her dues and feel so angry at the way they have let this country fail in all areas of our life.

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  438. The UK pension situation is disgraceful.
    Nothing but a massive fraud.
    Why don’t the government copy the pension scheme of Holland where pensions are paid
    out at a rate of 102 % of what an individual has paid in over the years.

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  440. Why do this to so many 50s woman. Which includes myself. We live and work for our family. Which feeds the economy and our country. So many of my family and friends. Who worked just like me and other 50s women. Have now died or suffer ill health. We are the ones paying the price for the government. Who have let us down in a big way. They where voted in to support us. But instead they used and took advantage. For themselves, they should be ashamed. While we struggle they enjoy there pension. Which has been taken from all 50s woman. But I would also like to thank you for for fighting for our pensions.

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  441. Robbing B’stards. I am one of those woman. Having become carer to my husband with T1diabetes and Alzheimer’s , receiving the Carers allowance to live on. How dare they!!

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  442. Amazing news. All we needed was someone who knew how and wanted to investigate the political maze of lies and cover ups etc around 1950s womens pension scam AND WE HAVE HIM IN DAVID HENCKE. The sky’s the limit

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  444. Being one of those not in receipt of my pension I did know all this some time ago. The question is what is going to be done about it? We know these draconian decisions are never over turned and those whom made them never personally are affected. The judicial review should be soon! We will see!

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  445. Male : 63 : Gotta wait extra year for mine !
    This strengthen’s Our Donations to Overseas AIDS ?
    70’S : £20 per month was acceptable !
    After years of % wage rises + Bonuses the gap in a fair share of wealth ! Has long disappeared
    When I started work ! It was agreed that I retire @65 we need a Lord PROTECTOR! For the Common People’s!
    Although a Spurs Supporter (Hammers)
    Lord Alan Sugar has always been for the Common People’s Needs!
    Special request: BBC : Bring the Males pay down to Female pay!
    New playing field : For Equality!
    The savings would pay for over 75’s Bill After all ! They paid a lot more !+ consider this/ No web/No iPlayer / NO DISCOUNT ! WHY NOT?
    Finally: our refund BBC iPlayer: “”World Cup”” crucial Moment + iPlayer CRASHES ! What !
    I would like a refund Please!

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  446. This should never have happened. There were rules to governing a pension and they went against them.They should be taken 5o court and punished for the theft of our pensions.

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  447. Just thieves of our hard earned money.
    They could AFFORD TO PAY US WOMAN BACK is to STOP SENDING MONIES OVERSEAS, OR COMPENSATE BY Having there money cut.
    I’m sure if it was on the (other foot) happen to them,
    They would find the resources. Oh No! they couldn’t be without there EARLY PENSION POT.
    And bringing in extra a month by renting out properties.
    They have ROBBED US. And should have to be made to pay for what has happened. Its not Good enough. Thieves, B***** thieves.
    If I stole money I would end up going to prison.

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  448. I am appalled by these facts. Politicians are the biggest crooks on this planet. They are all out for themselves! Liars and cheats!

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  449. My husband died aged 50.. 11 years ago…having paid his full years’contributions
    he died in 2007 thinking I would get his pension inherited…no…in april 2016 they changed the rules..I get only my measly pension..having followed him around during his army days doing part time jobs
    And NO letter..I read it in the national press
    😠

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  450. The goverment ministers should get their pensions when we do, why should we be penalized, for money that we paid in for, it is not a benefit, what has happened to it!! We all should be able to access our pensions when we choose , if there is a shortfall thats our choice. Lots of 50’s women now in there 60s are struggling with health problems, social problems etc and they cannot carry on working and do not have family to lean on the system does not help them, just give them what they are owed and they wont drain the already overloaded system. Its a minefield that should never have happened. I have had to wait an extra 5yrs for mine, what has happened to my money ! So many ladies have not received theirs because the have passed away 😢😢😣😣

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  451. It doesn’t matter, working people will keep voting for the fraudsters, theres one that isn’t but of course the media will misrepresent everything he`s done and people wont vote for him. Well you get what you vote for and the government you deserve……..

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  452. This is similar to the “pension holidays” taken by companies in the Thatcher period when, due to the high value of the stock market at the time, companies decided they didn’t need to make their contribution to company pension funds. This has been a major reason for the “black holes” in company pension funds which in turn have been a major element in many company failures in the past few years.

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  453. I’m 69 now and my pension is a massive £129 a week . 😡 a joke I as many was at work from the age of 15 and paid my national insurance stamp every week other than when I was s stay at home mum bringing my children up. I would love to see all those in government try and live on this weekly amount. 😡😡😡😡😡

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  454. The real problem here is a News Media blackout by the BBC and all the other right wing media newspaper outlets. People need to realise that we live under a dictatorship in the UK and nothing will change until the population rises up against them. Mushrooms, the lot of us…

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  456. I was born April 1954 and had to going on working to 2019 and been paying IN for 50 years as I started working at 15 But now you only need 34 years 🤔

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  457. Complete and utter bastards they robbed us of our peace of mind from a pension fund we contributed from the age of 16years old a d now some of us will never receive a penny before we die .They have no shame .0

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  458. I am one of those women. And in addition, all through the years when my children were dependant, my husband never paid the NI stamp he promised even though I was running a business from which he benefitted, running a 24 roomed house and looking after 4 children and a 22 acre garden

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  459. I have worked all my life and paid full stamp. I even worked whilst my son was a baby so I missed out on this most crucial time most mothers have with their children. I paid my way but this last year I had to retire through I’ll health . I am 60 and now because I cant work any more I am penalised by not having my pension at the correct age. Furious doesn’t describe the way I feel, myself and all those other women have been robbed.

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  461. Do we vote for politicians, MPs, the government in so that they can make decisions like this ????
    We would be complete lunatics if we did. No, they make these decisions of their own greedy volition which is unforgivable as it can’t be put right by them without another cost to the people.

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  462. I was robbed of my pension I can’t see government officials losing their pensions. I find it difficult to work at 62 I don’t sit on a green bench when it suits me to turn up and feel I ought to be retired but then you can’t get the lazy people to work and the young ones are always on Facebook and don’t want to work.
    I have worked for my pension and feel robbed with little notice of intention

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  463. Are they not MPs for the people they seem to forget that onced they get elected they switch to thinking all just for them selves money in any pockets but the people’s sack them all start a new government and get rid of all them hangers on’s people come first 😂😂😂😎

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  465. I for one feel this is downright robbery my husband passed two years ago at the age of 55 so what has happened to all the money he paid in as I got £100 a week which was taxed for 52 weeks only. I am being made redundant from my job at the end July this year by which time I will be 64. The worry over this is actually making me ill as I need to earn money as my pension at 60 has been robbed and who
    In all honesty would want to employ a 64 year old woman as ageism does exist

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  466. I was made redundant at 59, worked from being 16..never signed on in my life, having to look for a job at that age and job centre made me feel like a criminal ,half of them wernt even born when I started work,now I have had a full hip replacement due to arthritis and have it in the other hip ,I’m 61 now and having to claim ESA, going in for assessments every so many weeks because I and many others have been robbed of our pensions. At any time THEY could decide that I am fit for work and have to look for work at 61, if an employer has two candidates for the same job a 61 or a 25 year old I know which I would choose.

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  468. How come they can accommodate people from other countries who haven’t paid a penny into this country but are taking everything out . Does the government think we are all stupid.I will now be branded as racist or uncaring of which I am neither. Look after our own first and then help others.This situation is absolutely disgusting.

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    • We all agree but our voices are ever heard we the voting public are left to the absolute contempt of all politicians who think they know better than the hoy poloy, as we the general voting public are depicted. If had a pound for every time someone stood up and shouted listen to us I would be a milloinare.
      I could probably then live in the same manner as a UK politician!

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  469. So take the money paid into the politicians pensions back off them with interest. And return it to the people’s pot where it should of been. Then change the laws to put the known error right . With a proviso any one changing said law would become accountable for there actions

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  471. Seems the English Goverment wants to bleed the population of anything they might have. Yet they have expences, a decently large income and payoffs of any, or no description!
    Just dont want anyine other than themselves to have a life.
    Selfish Bastards!!

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  473. It’s robbery. Why does a small few megalomaniac elites have the power to syphon off a nation’s wealth and get away with it .
    The answer… We allow them to get away with it !

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  475. Have you noticed they decline to answer well take their pensions off of them make them work longer, and when they reach pensionable age they can get what we get , they do need to account for this!!!

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  476. Yes and according the freedom of information act letter that Trudy Baddams received the National insurance fund was still in surplus by 74 billion for the last year and it was taken and used towards paying some off the national debt! Whilst we starve!

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  480. Very interesting but no surprise of the named persons . Am hoping that 50s women including myself robbed of our hard earned monies will make history by this decision being overturned on May 24th .

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  482. Typical greedy politicians , the public been shafted again
    We need to look after our tax payers stop sending money to 3 rd world countries where a lot is pilfered away look after our veterans and pensioners and stop paying so much out to scrounging immigrants

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  483. As one of the women affected and I can only speak for myself. The difference it would have had to my life if I had received my pension at 60 as I thought I would. As a young woman I looked after my children and then went to work from 5.30.till 10.00, which I did for eighteen years.I did have other small pensions that I had to cash in to help pay off some of my mortgage so I could afford to pay my bills. Now at 65 I still have to work full time to have anything like a life. We maybe living longer but with old age comes other things. I have just had a mastectomy and will need time off work, most companies today do not pay sickness anymore. Also I received a letter with my state pension amount to be paid to me in April ( baring in mind I was 65 in December ) of just over £ 600.00. This country was one of the most respected countries in the world and others looked to us. Now we are a joke, the poorer countries in Europe treat their older generation with the repect they deserve.

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  484. Disgraceful they should put the billions back and then be jailed and the money they stole taken back to pay to who the money lawfully belongs to. WHEN IS THIS THIEVING OF OUR MONEY TO GIVE THEMSELVES ENORMOUS PAY GOING TO STOP AND EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM MADE TO PAY? .

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  485. Disgraceful decision !! personally I was robbed of £39,000 and 3.8 years of my retirement. After 8 years of working and contributing I expected better treatment. So disrespectful to women who are often carers to children, grandchildren and elderly parents too. As well as working etc.
    An eye opener to read the government had a large part in this ROBBERY ! Hang your heads in shame

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  486. Can this information be used in court in May it is the only way to fight this massive fraud. Was the misuse of the NI
    Contributions put to a vote in Parliament of not them criminal charges should be issued on all those responsible as would be in a private company

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  487. Why am I not surprised. These people care only in government for themselves. They have no care or consideration for anyone bar themselves. I bet they have huge pensions courtesy of us lowly minions. They make me utterly sick. Absolute shower of s muck

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  489. Many of these ladies paid national insurance contributions all their working lives so they should be entitled to back payment of their pension. It makes me so angry that politicians can retire at any age and get their pensions straight away. I had to wait and extra 4 years and 7 months before I got my pension. That’s approx £35000 the government has done me out of. I had planned to retire at 60 but am now still working at 65!

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  491. Politicians love to get their noses in the trough and get as much money out of the public purse that they can. They have little interest in the ordinary people and disregard their concerns- I don’t trust any of them any more, all parties have their own self interests above the electorate. I am 60 now and won’t get any pension for years.

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  492. One thing is certain, Politicians wont have to wait til there 66 or 67 to retire. They would have accumulated enough wealth from the tax payer to retire early.

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  495. Politicians don’t care about what they have done as they are busy ‘lining their own bags’ making sure they are financially okay! It wouldn’t have been so bad if this had been phased in more gradually but to go from 60 to 66 is criminal! Robbery!!!

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  497. It’s not just the increase in pension age.
    My wife is 8 years younger than me. She’ll be 66 before the new pension entitlement, which means I’ll be 74. So until then I only qualify for single pension. Plus wife cannot get bus pass.

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  498. The answer is, we should all be wearing ‘yellow vests’ with pride and remove the “untrustworthy”
    The problem is if it doesn’t effect you personally it’s just somebody else’s responsibility, homeless – universal credit – food banks, unite against these injuries to our class.

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  501. No wonder today’s pensioners are struggling. The MPs should be ashamed there are lots of pensioners because they have to work longer don’t have the privilege of a retirement, and those who do have to penny pinch to live.
    Is this the government’s way of trying to reduce the elderly population. We are the generation who worked hard to build this country up after the 2nd world war.
    The MPs certainly make sure they have a decent pension.

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  502. Disgusting they are criminals. Government should held responsible for this and make cuts within the government. They all earn far to much and have massive pensions. Not our fault they are the real criminals. Make the late PM s pay

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  503. They are nothing but thieving bastards, never in the course of history could you ever trust a government minister.
    They have never ever cared for there people only for what they could get for doing nothing.
    The circle of education they come from is blighted by how to fabricate and tell lies to the people they are supposed to represent.
    I would not cross the road for one, just look at Brexit lie after lie after lie.

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  505. It’s disgusting what they have done to us. They should be made to put it Wright.
    I also think men should have the pension age lowered . Both men and women should be able to get the pension and retire at 60

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  506. It’s disgusting what they have done to us. They should be made to put it Wright.
    I also think men should have the pension age lowered . Both men and women should be able to get the pension and retire at 60

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  507. I wonder if we are able to challenge their decisions – they have singled women out ( equality ? ) and why do we not get to decided enough is enough and when we get a whiff of what these leeches are up to can we not vote them out. Because quite frankly – once they are in – they never ever represent their constituents so I figured they just lie to get the job then put two fingers up to us

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  508. I’m keeping on a p/t job that i’d hoped to give up 3yrs ago, but my real heartbreak is for single friends who are still doing 35+ hours on a shop floor, who are still having to cope with mentally stressful jobs and others doing very challenging shift work! No matter how healthy you try to keep yourself, it just gets physically and mentally harder and harder!

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  509. This is wrong. Most people would like to retire to enjoy old age, most of us have already paid our 35 years to obtain a full pension. Although our working age has increased we will have paid more into the system but will not receive anymore money from the state. We have the highest retirement age. Most of the people in this age bracket should be all allowed to choose if they should work longer. We are having to work to pay the money that the government have not paid in. I expect that they will retire early with a golden hand shake! Disgusting

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  510. I’m hoping through parliament that they will see, the women of the 50’s are not going to stop campaign for the rights of our pension,
    It’s going to be like ppi’s Eventually they will pay up, do the right thing & pay now, or we’ll all be charging interest to the government.
    Worked from age 16 until 62 think I’ve paid enough in should have got pension at 60 now 63 with 3 more years to go scandalous

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  512. This makes my Blood boil. Worked from the age of 15. I was made redundant on the 31st of May 2018. To have to go to a job centre at the age of 63 was the most upsetting experience i have ever had to endure.
    Did not do my blood pressure any good.
    Security was unbelievable.
    I feel devastated by this whole fresco

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  513. Multi party collusion to steal from pensionable age women make them work so they die before they collect their pensions ,or worse, put them in nursing homes where they charge exorbitant fees and the greedy bastards recoup every penny because THEY OWN THE NURSING HOMES
    easy money eh??

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  514. Factor in also the millions of immigrants legal and illegal in the country since Tony Blairs goverment. They will expect their share of pension even if they haven’t contributed to it for very long or at all. I am not racist just practical

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  515. It isn’t just the age change that has been so damaging…. the number of qualifying years for a full pension has also changed, from 30 to 35. I am 64; originally I had enough qualifying years (32) but now I’ll have to pay in more if I want the full amount, so a double whammy!

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  516. Does it not count as some sort of contract ? Start work at 15, work all your life and you WILL get your pension at 60, That is what we were told back then, We kept our part of the bargain………….

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  517. I will be 65 next month and will not receive my pension until September. My husband had a severe stroke at 54 and I gave up work to care for him. As we had savings the only help we received was the carers allowance, a pittance for 35 hours per week minimum, and dla now pip. Our savings depleted rapidly as we still had a mortgage. After 5 years our funds had all but gone so I had to look for work. Fortunately the lady that took my job was going on maternity leave so I was lucky enough to get my old job back at 58. No-one else would have employed me at that age. I have health problems myself and find full time work and then caring and running a home single handed is too much but what choice do I have? We have suffered financial losses and our quality of life has also been decimated. The equality with men would be ok if we had equality when we started work. Lower wages and no access to company pensions were the lot of the majority of women in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The main thing to remember is that the politicians who have caused this are very comfortable in their retirements, much younger than us, with pensions provided from the public purse funded by us. It really is a case of heads they win tails we lose.

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  520. Why am I not surprised that I had to wait till iv was 62 1/2 for my pension that that conservitive and labour both raided the fund dosnt serprise me what dos is that put it down to austerity

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  521. We don’t stand for nothing, we women who have worked all our lives and now can’t claim a penny, whilst the government are paying millions to aid other countries. How much will brexit have cost. I have worked all my life, 2 and a half years off for children. Now not working gain nothing, if I had claimed social all my life I would be still receiving it where is the logic in that. Someone stated we are the drones exactly. Why do we put up with it? We should all stand together and rebel.

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    • Too right put it right, now I am 62 with undecribable aches and pains I need to retire now I have earned the right. As for the young saying we are a burden to them, they are a burden to me they can’t turn up for work which would put money into the pot, not without their phones any way.

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  524. I can only agree with much I have read from others but would add that inequality cannot be corrected by a one-size-fits-all piece of legislation; someone has to care for the home/children (to their detriment) and, until the the government can legislate for demonstrable equailty in these tasks, an element of inequality will remain – that was why women got to retire at 60 as they maintained 24/7 unpaid responsibility for these tasks!
    Have you also noticed, in addition to attacking a single-sex, more vulnerable group of society to correct government dishonesty and lack of planning, the fallback position of proposed changes seems to be to erode pensioners incomes? 2016: when compiling the manifesto for the snap election post the Brexit referendum, some bright spark wanted to attach a dementia tax (they had the sense to drop it but will, no doubt, try to re-introduce it at some point); increased NI contributions; suggestions to cut off/means test the winter fuel payment; do away with free television licences, etc. It seems that having forced workplace pensions due to inadequate pensions payments, increasing the retirement age to closer ’til we drop, the government is concentrating on a diverse approach on just how they can take more from pensioners. All politicians and civil servants who failed to make adequte provisions should have their pensions (and honours list expectations) revoked – not to mention some sackings/legal action. All of the various groups need to come together to present a united front – despite the way they handled Brexit, it would not be easy to simply ignore 3.3 million of us!

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  525. I am one of these women and I’m going to do all I can to try to get compensation, what is worse than not paying out pensions is that successive government would have known this was going to happen therefore we could have made other arrangements

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    • I am one of these women too, but what can we actually do about it ? Do we have to just grin and bare it while all those government thieves past and present get away with fraud because that’s what they’ve done they defrauded us out of our pensions what we have paid into all out working lives. Makes me so very angry!

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  526. Thank you for your article I had heard this story but seeing it in black and white just makes me even madder I’m 63 rising 64 didn’t know I wasn’t getting my pension at 60 and life now it’s so hard I started work at 15 at 22 went part-time then spent the rest of my life looking after children my children and earning part-time in several jobs per day now can’t even afford a day out or a trip to the cinema and I’m struggling with some of the basics

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  527. Such is the reward for working all out lives. Might as well have let the state support us years ago. Now when we need our pension NOT benefits, we pay again. 64 years old and never claimed a penny in my life. Hope l make it to 66. Then l will have the money to come down to London and see them!😠😠😠

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  528. This is a disgrace as I have worked since I was 12years old and paid my taxes. I agree that all women born in the 50s should be allowed to retire on full government pension. I will when the governments ruling is over turned.

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  529. Disgusting !!!!!!! and yet they still get to retire at an early age with a huge pension the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer!!!! Very sad fact in this day and age. We are reversing in years in something’s especially when it comes to finance.

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  530. Not only women I was told that when I was 60 I would get my pension have checked and I am on top level anything I earn now goes into their pot I have to be 66and 7months before I can get my pension iam owed 6years 7months by this government

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  534. This is an outrage when people are living longer and pensions are getting smaller and when you look at the rest of Europe there pensions are far better, then there is the huge amount of money this country gives to other countries which is ridiculous we should be looking after our own people first we have far too many people living on the breadline and on the streets and it begars beleif that our government can give itself huge pension increases far above that of the people it’s a criminal fact.

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  536. Having worked as a nurse for 44 years now and aged 62 looked after two sons as a single parent for nearly 24 years I am working harder than ever am so tired and are helping my sons out financially as they struggle to make ends meet I am so ready for retiring to have some time to myself and also helping my elderly parents

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  539. Why am I not surprised at thatcher and this bunch of corrupt greedy criminals leaving the hard working people of this country high and dry those that are still alive should be stripped of their high pension pay outs and be made to live on the basic pensions they expect us to live on corrupt greedy scum the lot of them

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  540. This is disgusting and they should pay for it. Their pensions should be slashed so that they have to live like ordinary working class people.

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  541. On the 5th and 6th of June 2019 there is a full judicial review in the courts London / Back to 60 group to win 1950s ladies pensions back.Hopefully justice will be done so that’s 5th and 6th .

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  542. Those responsible should be sacked, loose all their capital and face jail! Absolutely disgusting! No wonder the people have no faith in these so called MP,’s aren’t they supposedly acting on behalf of the people?? No shame, waste of 💰😤😠😤😠

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  544. This not only explains the way WASPI women were treated but also –
    The way all of us who reached pensionable age since the year 2,000 have received state pensions that have nowhere nearly kept up with the cost of living.

    In my case if it was not for a small occupational pension I don’t know how I would manage!

    Then there is the replacement of the old unemployment benefit which was relatively easy to claim by the Draconian Universal Credit which seems to be a way of punishing people who for reasons of ill health or disability cannot work.

    The Tory party has succeeded in destroying a system that, at least at its inception was a reasonable safety net and replacing it with a system that appears to make life nearly impossible for those forced to claim it.

    Labour will have its work cut out reforming this system and returning to a humane system of support for those who either cannot find work or who are genuinely unable to work.
    It will be even more difficult because the funds are just not there. Appalling

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  545. I really don’t know why it’s such a surprise, it’s only my opinion, but it just really confirms to me the corruption in our government and MP’s there in, they are and always will have a bigger mask and gun than us all.!!!

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  547. It’s disgusting I’ve paid Tax-and NI every year but one, since 1972. Even raising 3 children during that time. The most annoying is that we got 18 months notice for a delay of 6 years. If I lose my job now who will employ me at 63 years old. How do these people sleep at night…..

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  548. The Governor have no shame, consciunce, heart or decency !!! They have STOLEN our PENSION and I for one, NEED MINE BACK thank you very much !!

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  549. My pension is not a benefit, after 44 years of contributions I have paid into the fund . I am now owed almost £20,000. I am now 62 1/2 and must wait 3 1/2 more years to receive pension, winter fuel allowance, Christmas allowance, a bus pass and the opportunities for jobs are minimal.

    Throughout my working life I have not been treated equally and women still earn 28 per cent less than men.

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  550. Disgusting!
    I have struggled to work for the last few years since reaching 60.
    I previously had cancer & my whole system left weakened.
    I’ve recently had a CABG (double bypass) which I believe putting myself under the huge pressure of having to work each day contributed to my heart attack.
    I’m now 7 weeks into recovery & whilst grateful to be alive. Each day still remains an uphill struggle.

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  551. They should all be brought to book and prosecuted and if they are still alive given the measly pension that we receive, who said it’s right for them to have a higher pension than us when really they are our servants ????

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  552. Downright despicable behaviour doing 50s women on average out of £35000 – money which they contributed to. This needs to be sorted and all those women compensated.

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  553. What a damm cheek I wish I’d have known I would have stopped working legitimately and doing employment giving cash in hand !!!!

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  554. Hope this information looked at in the Review in June along with all the other evidence that 50′ s women paid their NI and they should receive their SP at 60 not 66.

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  555. Wouldn’t Give My VOTE to any of the political parties even though women fought a hard battle to get which I really admire.. Just think tithe politicians are all out for what in it for them and not the people. The country on the verge of destruction.. I am one of the the fifties women who worked from 15 years of age no pension for me at sixty. Look after the grandchildren so my son and daughter can work. All I can say to the politicians of this country you gang if fucking pricks and parasites 🦠

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  556. I was born in1962. I have worked for 40 years and was looking forward to my retirement. I hope someone will fight for my generation!

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  557. Agree but I’m at pensionable age – paid in for 38 years but was told e(after I retired) that I couldn’t get a full pension as needed 40 years.
    Strange- now you only need to pay in 30 years to get a full pension.
    So I’ve been cheated out of 8 years of N Insurance contributions.
    Where is that money?

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  558. Disgusting how all the named people above are supposed to be the ones that make the right
    Decisions for the people of the UK.
    Yet again we find out we have been let down by those we put our trust in, why do we even have a government ??????

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  560. With all this information why are we fifties woman not getting compensation? The high court in December ruled that we have a case to answer. Our health is suffering I have had four foot and hand operations to keep me in work when I should have retired. There are so many young people that need work .

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  561. They should be made to pay it all back. They are disgusting, lining their own pockets. How criminal are they, nothing but thieves.

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  562. So that’s why my UK state pension based on 35 years’ contributions is only half the amount of state pension I’ll get from Luxembourg based on only 13 years’ work. I can claim the latter aged 60 but have to wait until 66 for the UK one. Maybe Devereaux can share some of his pension?

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  564. I’m 63 working 3 jobs to keep a roof over my head and food in my mouth its about time they reduced state pension age down at least 2 or 3 years

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  567. this is robbery and to blame it on those that put it in the pot its absolutely disgusting how the money is just written off .if I did this I would be in jail it’s time they were accountable

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    • As a woman born in 1955 this has affected myself , also many friends After starting work at 15 -to have our pension age changed twice with no debate or able to question this . When it was to late in life to change our options for our futures. We should be compensated for this Outrageous action towards us by the Deceitful Goverment

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  568. Absolutely disgusting they I have to work another 6 years because of these robbers sad thing is it won’t change

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  569. I fully accept this article to be true & it is despicable but as long as voters choose to select candidates offering lower taxes what size can you expect. We are a nation of “me firsts” who frankly doubt care about others until we are one of them.

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  570. What a disgrace they should hang there heads with shame. I’ve lost over £40,000 thats nothing to the people in parliament but a fortune to me. I hope we get back what we deserve

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  571. How dare they make these decisions behind people’s backs preventing them from preparing, I’m 64 and have been working since I was 15 (12 if you count my paper round and Saturday jobs) unlike many others who manage to get by on benefits when they haven’t even ever worked, we can’t even get a free bus pass, all we get at 60 is free prescriptions (that I rarely use) and a bowel screening kit, big deal, this country must be the laughing stock of the world, its criminal what they get away with

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  572. Shows you what a set of first class tools can do when they keep things to themselves.
    What about transparency?
    They made things difficult enough the shower that they are.

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    • This just came up on my Facebook page from a friend.
      Hi, we all know that the pensionable age for women born in the fifties has been raised. I’m guessing however that you may not know about a campaign, headed by a Michael Mansfield QC called “Back to the 60’s movement”. The movement is taking the DWP to the High Court on the 5th and 6th June in an attempt to get 3.9 million women justice over the lack of consultation in raising the pensionable age to 66 and above. Sadly there doesn’t appear to be any media coverage regarding this significant movement. Therefore, I and many others are raising awareness now and hoping for a positive outcome.
      Not sure if anyone knows about this or not.

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      • I started work in April 1971. My pension age has been changed twice firstly from 60 to 65 then again to age 66 . What is fifties women are supposed to just except this ! NO the goverment changed this with NO consultation this is outrageous. We should be compensated after having no decent awareness this could happen and make arrangements for. Some will be dead before they can reap anything after working working 45 years. Totally not except able.

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      • Hi Susan,this has been going on for two years,I have signed and sharing on Facebook.and been reading everyone comments.you are right too,about no social media,have been expecting it on the news and even loose women who talk about issues,but there’s been no media coverage,so let’s all share and share.xx

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      • The backto60 campaign won the first round ( no one expected them to win) dwp have asked for more time to present a new case after losing the first round. Fingers crossed backto60 won the next round ( it helps we have a lady judge presiding) ….

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  575. Like a lot of other women I have worked full-time from the age of 161/2yrs and took early returement at 57 therefore worked for over 40yrs with no maternity leave or any other sort of leave. Getting my state pension at 60 would have made a big difference to my standard of living so yes I feel robbed!
    It is Fraud by the Government!!!

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    • I can’t retire yet primarily because I am a 50’s child. The government and certain members of Parliament have treated us very badly and continue to do so. THIS IS UNFAIR and needs to be rectified.

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  576. They have robbed me and my partner of 6 years pension (each). In addition, they have robbed the Mineworkers Pension Scheme, and still continue to do so (this affects the pension my mum gets – as dad was a miner). The House of Lords and MPs fiddle expenses, thereby stealing from British taxpayers. It must STOP. It is all an absolute disgrace….. Where’s all the money going to?

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  577. I think this is absolutely disgusting g. I have worked all my life, I have had two or three jobs at points in my life, I have paid tax on everything I earn. I have even had to use my pensions that I worked hard for to survive I would like to see any of these people having to wait for their pension. I am 60 years of age and have health issues I sincerely hope that I will still be here to actually receive my pension We also have to continue paying national insurance longer. This is disgraceful we may be all living longer but it would be good to actually enjoy our retirement and take life a little easier which we are entitled to do.

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  578. I was born in 1960 and am in exactly the same position as 1950’s ladies. Paying in since 1975 to retire at 60. Now nearly 7 years added that I only found out about 2 years ago via social media.
    Will loose £54000 in pension payments.
    Criminal and injust for all women of our eras

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  579. My wife should have retired at 60 she was born on the 17th sept 1953 but because of this change with the pension had to work another 5 years which made her health suffer , I’m sure what the government did was illegal as my wife had paid more than enough stamps as she had worked since she was 15 years old . I believe that my wife and all the women like her who where born in the 50s should be entitled to the money they where deprived of , in my opinion it was stolen from them and they should receive the amount owed with interest .

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  580. I find this absolutely dreadful. They stole our money and defrauded us. It’s breach of contract and theft. I want my 5 years pension reimbursed. I’m 64 and had to move to Spain to live because it’s cheaper. I have to work until I’m 75 to pay for my apartment all because the government won’t give me my basic pension. That’s 5 years to now and I want it now.

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  582. WELL DONE LIZZIE. Get on girl!
    Right in the back of the net😆👍🏿
    These financial sector people think they’ve got it sewn up. It’s like every Private Pension & Investments company has a back office with Gov’t on the door plaque

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  583. Why are we wasting money supporting India and China when our own people are suffering. Our MPs are virtue signalling time wasters as well as money wasters.

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  584. Thank you David Henke. I will make sure I share this with friends far and wide.
    What a cruel lot we have been governed by over the years.Women are not the soft target that politicians think they are.
    Ruining lives and families obviously means nothing to them !!!!

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  585. I cant believe what Iv e just read … utterly despicable people.. no understanding of us women who have worked all our lives hoping to retire .. we are the generation that would off looked after our parents would of been volunteering.. would of been looking after the grandchildren to help our children.. instead we are still working. not always in the best of health but have no choice .. un like those in the government who can retire early along with a hefty pension . the next election is going to be very interesting.

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    • they have all stolen the pension fund/pot and its outrageous, we still paying NI ( would of helped when it stopped at 60 ) i had no notification of this and cant even get our bus passes which would of helped, and as for the ***** on here saying move to another country, get a brain and i wint waste my time answering that stupid comment

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      • you don’t want one of them supposedly ‘free’ bus passes when the requirement is that you have to give a photograph and you’re tracked wherever you go via that and the rfid chip in it….personally i plan to top myself when they do away with cash

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      • Someone sent me video proof yesterday of all the asylum seekers who have come to our country, they are all living in a large posh hotel untill the government give them a house to live in, all paid for by the British tax payer , yet this government will not pay the money back which they stole from British pensioners who have paid their dues, now we know what they have done with all the money which was taken from us all.

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  586. This sickens me, they were in an important position and given the task of being caretakers of the public purse. All the good that went before with the introduction of the welfare system destroyed by greedy , self serving politicians with no conscience or morals.

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  587. This is absolutely disgusting and if the general public did anything near to this theft, they would be charged and imprisoned without a second thought. How can this be allowed to continue. Its unbelievable!!!!

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  589. Women of this age group have been discrimated against, disadvantaged and now stolen from. I worked for the NHS all my life, receive a a very small pension because of having to work part time – again discrimated against because of this – even though it was because of ill health brought on by lifting heavy patients. I had expected my state pension at 60. I worked for 40 years and now struggle to make ends meet .

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    • Born in 1955.. started work aged 15…….
      Yet Now will not get Government pension until 2021= 51 years . I like many women was not informed of the changes. No official letters from DWP of what, where ,when ,or how to manage this gross injustice All the women in this category should be compensated… GROSS MISCONDUCT &
      NEGLIGENCE BY THE GOVERNMENT has caused this situation.

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  594. I am one of those 50s woman that had to work an extra 4 years through Ill health but couldn’t afford to retire because of the Government’s I’m so angry why do this to people but I suppose it was to line the pockets of they greedy *******

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  595. Total disregard for us 50s’ women….thank god the truth is now coming out. Thank you for all your hard work and hope we get our pension claims paid sooner rather than later

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  596. It is a disgrace what our own government has done to us! We paid in since we were 15/16 how many do that today? I have worked 2 jobs most of my life to fit around the children and husband. Now I want what this country has stolen from me!

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    • I too have worked and paid NI contributions since I was 15. The money appears to have either been misappropriated or stolen and used to pay salaries etc to those who were supposed to prudently keep our money safe. We must keep fighting on those principles, we paid in and therefore we expect what was promised.

      In some EU countries many people get a FULL state pension at age 60 (some at age 55) and some even get the state pension levels based on their final salary…. ! Now how does that stack up?

      Kim

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  597. I’m one of those woman who had to wait until I was 64 before receiving my pension and who worked since 15 yrs old so these rules should be changed back to 60 won’t help myself but might help others not having to wait all the years missed in their pensions

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  599. I’m one of these women. Just turned 63 with another 3 years to work. I have health problems now that I didn’t have a couple of years ago. I’ve had sick time off work which I hate. I’ve worked all my adult life apart from time off to have my kids. I also cared for my mother for over 3 years. She had MS. I expected to retire at 60 as I wasn’t informed of anything else. I’m really angry that all these governments stole my pension along with loads of other women.

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  601. I am 61 and have to wait another 5 years. I’m disgusted too like so many other women. I’m stuck for words to say. They say crime doesn’t pay but they have all got away with it whilst lining their own pockets. What can we do about it? Can we ever reverse this now ? They have ruined so many people’s plans and lives.

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    • We are the same age and suffer the same issues. I totally agree with you – in my opinion theft is theft and therefore those who took our pension contributions made through NI and used them for something else is basically financial fraud and they should be bought to justice.
      Surely we have not forgotten what Robert Maxwell did: is this a re-run of the same???

      See my thoughts posted earlier today at the end of the list.

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  603. I left school at 15 and got a job straight away I went to a office to get my stamp card as it was called in them days and I had to sign for it and the condition was pay my dues till 60 and I would get my pension I did all that was detailed in my stamp book they have broken the contract I have with the government if I did this to them I would be in court give me my pension

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  604. Im one of those women. Not only have they stolen my money but I’ve lost my lifetime partner too so his contributions are in the pot as well. It’s shameful wot they have done to us. I think their pension pots should be raided and used to top up wot is rightfully ours!!!!!

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  605. So now they say it is too expensive to pay us our pension, really? So even though we paid in with the view that we would get our pensions at 60, OUR contributions have been misspent or squandered elsewhere,…. Is that not financial fraud?

    The collective of people who decided to spend our NI contributions, and particularly those who received a salary for their role in such a scam, should be challenged in court, with the view that they must pay our money back, IN FULL, so that at least our rights are restored.

    No-one is above the law, and theft from the public purse, however it is presented, is not a victimless crime, and is worse still when it is orchestrated by those in power and who should know and behave both honestly and better!!

    Kim

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  606. The average man,or woman had hard jobs not sitting behind a desk all day they were working out at sea , while the woman was at home working and looking after the children making ends meet, grafting on building cites by the time they reach 60 65 there bodies were knackerd , paid in all them years to be robbed , of thete pensions u all know who u are who robbed them , u r a total discrace not fit to run a country.

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    • My wife and all the other women worked hard and paid into their pensions I just can’t understand why they didn’t win their case because it’s clear to everyone that the politicians and the establishment have stolen the money that they worked hard for and also paid for, someone should be accountable for this and every last one of them should receive the money they are owed by the government.

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  609. I too have worked since I was 16 yrs old I was born in 1961 I’m 58 so have already worked 42yrs and have now been told I have to work till I’m 67yrs old, so by then I would have worked 51yrs paying tax and National insurance, you only need 35yrs of NI to claim your state pension, so why do we still have to pay it if they are making us work longer ? This should be going into a separate fund to boost our pensions, after making us work longer to get them, my husband is 5yrs older than me, which is average, so he will be 72 by the time I can retire, what sort of reward is that together after all those years of hard work ? If we are lucky we might have a few years together before we pop off, or end up in a nursing home without each other and our house sold to pay for it ☹️! Our system is a joke, it doesn’t pay to be decent and work for a living in the UK we need to be looking after those that are supporting and funding our system not penalising them, and working them to death or I’ll health before they get what they are due for all their hard work keeping this country going.

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  610. I feel bitter and cheated. I should have retired four years ago and yet I need to work for another two years before I get any state pension having worked and paid into the system since I was 16 years of age. So unfair 🤬

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  611. I am one of these women Born in 1956 ,Still working now at 63, I work in a school kitchen and after school club .Hard physical work ,Awaiting to see if i need a knee operation because of the years being on my feet all day .In a lot of pain daily but will have to work until 2022 as i cant afford to retire even though my doctor says my legs will get worse .This report makes me feel physically sick that these politicians play with peoples lives like this while they live a luxurious high pension life .So very angry

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  614. This means that I have to keep my wife,which is no mean feat.A lot of women are not in this position and have to take to .loans usfood banks and other hand outs .The government were happy for people to contribute to this fiasco and use the funds that these women paid in to.Sadly a lot will not be able to enjoy their pensions when they eventually get them as they will be too old or not in good health to enjoy.

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  616. Well there’s no surprises there!! No doubt they can put their head on their pillows & sleep. Of course they can! There not counting pennies to pay their bills! Selfish nasty evil people . They owe me alone €44k roughly in my pension. Daylight robbery.

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  617. As we all no MPS only look after them selfs and there intrest, now we the people have a chance to try and put things right after 40 + years of all MPS and PM’s of them liying and cheating the hard working men and women of our great country,time to show them they are there to do the the job of the people not the other way around,time people to stand up for our future, No EU masters,No Mps to rob us any more.???

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    • I the kids of today do not understand that it’s the ppl that run this country but the so soft uneducated and don’t care that protesting doesn’t come into there brain we can get this government out if we all get on the streets but they to snowflake to bother

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    • Good point. Northern Ireland hasn’t had a Government for 2 years. Yet they are still getting paid and it takes £9m a year to run Stormont. We are now the country the longest without a Government. We’ve overtaken Brussels who once didn’t have a Government for 18 months.

      BUT…

      We’re all still here. The electricity is on. The water is runnng. Transport runs. Our hospitals are open. Which makes me think, do we really need Governments at all? How much money in salaries and eyewatering expenses have British taxpayers paid out to 47 years worth of Governments, Parliaments, Commons, Lords, Civil Service etc. (and now all their golden pensions) just for them to take orders from Brussels? Taxpayers pay the whole Judicial System too – judges, magistrates, high courts, low courts, all the court personnel, translators, etc – and now £14m alone to this new “Supreme Court” – who mainly thwart us in every way they can. I believe female judges (and MPs) still get the 10 year transition the Government reneged on for every other woman. Where’s the “equality” in that?

      I’ll never forget Malcolm Rifkind in an undercover sting touting for business to be a lobbyist in Parliament for what he KNEW was someone of dubious intent being asked by the undercover reporter, “But will you, as a sitting MP, have enough time to work on this?” To which Rifkind replied, “You’d be surprised how much free time I have!”

      So what were the taxpayers paying him for? And how – when the video of his sting was played all over the media, including his boasting about all the “free time” he had – did that utter shyster get a knighthood? He’s SIR Malcolm Rifkind today!

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  618. This is definitely fraud at the highest level. There should be legal action taken against the government on these grounds rather than arguing we were not given enough warning. If any one of us women who have been denied our pension had committed such a crime we would not have been allowed to get away with it. Make the government liable for paying back these pensions from their corrupt ill gotten gains. They can always find millions to spend on things they consider more worthy.

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  619. Millions suffered and are suffering. Not our fault. We have paid ni for our pensions at 60…..not our fault, why were we targeted???? Personally I found out casually at job centre Sept 2010 just 57… Redundant. Devasted… Still am.. Twilight yrs stolen gone forever… Osteoarthritis and heart probkems last few yrs. Limited mobility.. Heart breaking as I cannot enjoy life. Miss seeing our sons and families, miss seeing granddaughters. They live over 200 miles. Have their dream jobs. Hubby has mental health problems and bladder cancer.. Life a daily struggle. So so morally wrong for high court to blatantly dismiss our case. Yet advised by another court to go this route.. Total maladministration by dwp.. Had reply today from ICE.. Saying case closed. We are all human beings with feelings. Worked over 44 yrs for my pension even stem by our own govt.. How uncaring, not looking after the nations citizens. Yet in war the women’s army kept the UK going.. Eg working in fields, munitions factories etc. After all if not for women men would not be here!!

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  621. It’s disgusting, I should have retired last year, in stead I’m made to carry on working as a carer, finding it more difficult to do the job I do, hope all these members of parliament, rot in hell.

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  624. Not fair paid full national insurance since age of 19 still no pension this country is a disgrace we have earned our pension and are not asking for something we are not entitled to. Be too exhausted to enjoy any retirement at this rate!

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    • I started working 3 week off 15 paid every week till now my mom drummed it into me to make sure you pay even if not working I did this planed my retirement and now got to wait till 66 I should be traveling now

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  626. Robbers..line their own pockets for the greedy unfeeling selfish..would like to say humans!!! they are or were..just waiting for us to die so no pension payments..worked and raised families all our lives..absolutely shameful…

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  627. I am 60 took early retirement March 2019. I had a very demanding job which involved a lot of travelling. I have health issues and decided I must leave and manage on what I have. I lost my partner of 20 years, 6 years ago was not entitled to any widows allowances or his pensions because we were not married. He hadn’t worked for the last 10 years of his life but couldn’t get benefits because he lived with me and my earnings were over the limit. Where has all his pension gone? I now have to wait until 2024 before I get my state pension hopefully by retiring early I will beable to claim it. I don’t smoke or drink or have a social life apart from going on long walks everyday. I can’t afford to run a car. I have worked from the age of 16 until 60 only having 18 weeks off work to have my 1 and only daughter. Now I been told I don’t have enough contributions to receive my full pension. I know people who get everything and never worked the system is all wrong. On a positive side I get 25% discount on my council tax for living alone that’s it. The Government are robbing bxxxxxx

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  629. It would not have been implemented had males been affected in the same way! They would have ensured that they would have been informed appropriately and in plenty of time to plan ahead .

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  630. For years i worked for less pay than a man doing the same job. I raised my children and thay are now tax and national insurance payers. I cared for my mum before she passed away, now im a total wreck due to the effects of the menopause. I am absolutely sickened by the way women can be treated this way. I feel that my pension money has been stolen from me by the thieving governments

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  631. I presume our money also bailed out the banks after the fat cats had drained them dry!! This country only practises law, it doesn’t know the meaning of JUSTICE!!

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  633. Disgraceful. Highway robbery, multi millionaires depriving people of £107 per week. Shame on them and those people refusing to put it right

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  635. I only found out when I was 55 I’m now 64. I was made redundant 18 months ago and am struggling to get another job. I don’t qualify for any benefits as my partner earns too much! So I have had to use my redundancy money …its really unfair I have 37 years of contributions.

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  636. Why is this not classed as theft of the People perhaps we should be more like the French and protest in the street continuous governments have made decisions not in our best interest and got away with it we now need this country to pay the waspi women what is owed to them if this happened in another country we would call it a dictatorship

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    • Something should be done ! The government can find money for a new rail link costing billions yet can’t pay back money they owe to pensioners , my wife had to work 5 more years in a care home lifting people twice her weight , she now suffers with back pain and has to take pain killers. She is owed over £40,000 from the government which she is entitled to because she paid a full national insurance stamp since she first started work at 15 years old. It’s just not fair because mp’s pensions are guaranteed not to fall and they are benefiting by the rip off of the pension fund. It’s nothing more but theft and someone should be prosecuted for it.

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      • Well said. New rail link to help business people in the main get to and from Manchester quicker.

        The French have the right idea. I’m up for striking. They owe me thousands too.

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  637. It comes as no surprise women have always been under valued and disregarded we have brought our children up worked and studied and have been treated as second class citizens for years and no matter how we try we are shit on by the people we have had to put our trust in SHAME ON YOU ALL POLITICIANS

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  638. Looking around my local graveyard I was astonished to how many people actually lived well into their 70 and 80 historically many lived good long lives in the 20th century. The governments that have robbed us needed to find a reason to rob us. It’s nothing more than theft, hoping we’ll die before being able to claim what we’ve paid into for 50 years. They should be known as the Robert Maxwell parties

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  640. It is theft of tax payers money ,if a company boss shifted the money then its fraud, if a ordinary person does that its prison.These people are put in government to look after the people in this country by robbing this pension they have comments mis appropriation of funds a crime.Wouldnt have been so bad if it had gone to NHS .Nora

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  641. And now, to add insult to injury, some bright spark has decided that pensioners should work as carers for the elderly in their communities or risk losing their pension. He also thinks that the younger generation should be demonstrating their disapproval of having to pay for us leeches because they are the ones getting a bad deal. I am one of the 1950s women affected by these changes to the pension laws. I have worked and paid NI and taxes for my entire working life and have over 40 years of qualifying contributions which we were led to believe would provide us with our pension at 60. I am now 63 with still a further 3 years to go before I can claim my pension which has suddenly become a benefit ….. it us not a benefit, it is my right as a tax paying citizen of the UK. That which masquerades as equality is really just a failure of successive governments to provide for its citizens by putting money into the pension pot instead of taking out. Let’s face it, the number and ages of UK citizens cannot have come as a surprise, we have a census every 10 years, it’s not like we all arrived here overnight is it? It is poor planning, or no planning at all, that has put us in this situation. It’s worth bearing in mind too that when I started working in 1973, women were not even given the choice to join a company pension scheme, this was only offered to full time male workers …. where’s the equality in that? Throughout the late 70s and 80s I was bringing up children so worked part time jobs, sometimes 3 at a time so not part time hours, but was never offered the chance to join a company pension scheme. Now it has become law, and rightly so that all workers should be encouraged to contribute to a pension scheme and their employers must do the same. I do not doubt that by the time my granddaughters reach retirement, there will be no state pension at all except for the people who have never worked in their entire life and therefore not managed to contribute to any sort of pension ……. you will then be able to accurately call the pension a benefit, but not yet! I’m disgusted by the short sighted approach to pensions that has been adopted by all the successive governments since the mid 1980s, it is this that has caused the current and future pensions crisis and for this, YOU SHOULD ALL HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME!

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    • I agree and after working for over 38 years I’m very ill will a chronic illness aand having to fight to get help when I should have had my pension that I paid for

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  642. This is an absolute disgrace but then nothing surprises me with this goverment anymore work all ur days paying into the system and you get penalised they are robbing gits especially when you make the effort to pay into ur pension pot lots of people cant afford to do that.😡😡😡

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  643. Hi David I am so glad that something is being done about this pension for women from 1950 as I work for NHS in covid ward I just get scared and think that what they did is very wrong as I am 64 and cancer survivor I am steel not classed at risk and I thin if we have paid our full NI for more than 40 yrs we should not have to work until we are 66. The system is so wrong for people who are honest and never claimed any thing and once again thank you from bottom of my heart. STAY SAFE AND TAKE CARE

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  644. This needs to be corrected urgently!!50s women need reparation for their lost and all monies owed returned in compensation to women born 1950 to 1959 NOW!!!!

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  646. I am 64.
    I have worked all my life, never had children. I had been working up , until I was 53 yrs.
    I had a nervous breakdown, my firm, keep my job open for me, for a little while, but I couldn’t go back.
    I moved out of London,
    I now live in Essex.
    I had a very small private pension,
    But due to the dog I rescued, I have paid out a lot to the vets.
    So I have been struggling since.
    No through of mine.
    Us Ladies, who were born in the 1950 ‘s, deserve better.
    I don’t receive any benefit, apart from my husband’s pension, which is not very much.
    So give more job’s to the younger generation, and let the 1950’s ladies retire, so that they can spend the time we have got left to spend with our family and grandchildren.

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  647. We were all unlawfully discriminated not given enough time for adjustments to cope without our state pensions I was one of many who took time off to look after grandchildren but with the lack of warning of not receiving my pension when I turned 60 left me with disadvantage of £48,000 out of pocket we all suffered abuse of power fingers crossed for the English barrister Michael Mansfield QC the king of human rights who will fight tooth and nail to get justice for all of those woman out there good luck for us all.

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  648. I have worked in low paid jobs since leaving school at 16. If the age had not been moved I would be retired by now. I have been made to pay into a private pension from my low paid job which caused hardship. I live in a council house and pay full rent, because of the private pension I will not get help with my rent, my private pension is not anywhere near my monthly rent. I am panicking about how I will manage. I also have painfull arthritis and don’t know how much longer I will be able to work. Sadly this is happening to many women my age. The government do not care about us. We have been swept aside.

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  649. No doubt they will use the excuse that they don’t have the money to pay back what they stole from us, they will now use the covid-19 as an excuse ….top and bottom of it is that they kept the money for their own pensions and to bail out the banks!! I pray for us all, however, I will be surprised if justice is served as I don’t trust any political party or those in high authority anymore! GOOD LUCK ladies xx

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  650. If we had been told in plenty time could have taken out private pensions to cover. , been one big nightmare , was counting on the money

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  651. I have utter contempt for all involved in this so were has our money gone? We won’t answers now our governments over the years have stolen everything from us they need prosecuting.

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    • That is right the government have managed to shell out for all sorts during covid 19 but they will not give us our pensions that we have paid for. All those poor people who have died the government will not have to pay their pensions. So why cant we have ours now

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  653. The British government is for all uk citizens EXCEPT THE WOMEN OF THE 50s. Do we not mean the same as other decades, we worked and saved in the uk old age pension only to only be denied our pension when it was due. NOT A BENEFIT BUT AN ENTITLEMENT – paid for by all the women who worked and paid into it.
    FOR GOD SAKE STOP MPs expenses and pay our entitlement. BORIS JOHNSON IF YOU DONT YOU ARE A DISGRACE AND SO IS YOUR CABINET.

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  654. Absolutely disgusting and we should not let it rest they stole our money and that’s a crime I have had cancer twice have been left with nerve damage due to chemo and have to work another 6 years I have worked since I was 15 had to work through chemo and now they add another 6 years on we had no time to prepare for this its a national disgrace tgey need to pay the money they stole i will have worked 51 years i hear them saying well men don’t get there till 66 but woman had children kept houses and worked the 50s women were robbed while this corrupt country ministers retire on extraordinary high pensions country is a joke

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  655. Absolutely disgusting all of those ex prime ministers and people who were in power and are still alive should be brought to justice ASAP.

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  656. When I started work in 1974 women were treated as second class citizens. I had 5 “0” levels, more than most of my male colleagues and yet it was I, not them, who had to serve teas to all the staff twice a day. I was not allowed to join a company pension scheme as women were expected to leave to have children and so were not eligible, pensions were for the men. If this has indeed been auctioned for the purposes of equality, where are all the contributions which should have been made on my behalf? After having my children, I returned to work part time and again was not eligible for a pension because I was not a full time employee … I did in fact work full time hours but just spread over 3 x part time jobs to fit in with my family life …. these sorts of jobs did not offer any pensions. I am certain that my male counterparts who started work in 1974 would have built up quite a pension pot which could probably enable them to retire at 60 if they so wished. I eventually started my own personal pension at the age of 40, not a company pension I should add and paid an amount into it each month …. there is certainly not enough in it to fund the 6 years of retirement i have lost. This equality lark has only ever worked one way and that was never in favour of the women, were still second class citizens… you need look no further than the salary discrepancies at the BBC to prove this. The whole thing is an absolute disgrace. I am now 63 and in ill health, I was made redundant 5 years ago and have been unable to work since. I survive on Universal Credit and am forced to endure, every 12 months, the humiliation of attending fitness for work interviews. Our pensions in the UK are the lowest of any of our contemporaries and to defer it, in this way, without advising us or giving any notice is nothing short of criminal. I have reached the age of 63, if I make it to 66 I will have outlived every member of my immediate family … my mother and brother both died before reaching retirement age and my dad managed to claim 2 months of pension before he passed away, all of them had worked their entire lives. I for one, fail to see the justice in any of this so, if someone could explain it for me I would love to hear from you.

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    • Well said Colleen, A story that is echoed for so many of us! This should be read allowed for all to hear at every opportunity, particularly at the appeal …God bless you, take care xx I pray we get justice !!

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  658. Our Pensions have been taken without our consent by the Government .They have taken our money that was promised to us at 60 ,to use it for their mismanagement that has happened over years .It wasn’t theirs to take , so we would like it back please . Furthermore all 1950s Women should be treated equally and be given the same status, and be entitled to the 2016 New State Pension as compensation for the anguish and trauma that the Government has caused to these Women

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  659. Hope this information has put forward to The Appeals Court in the Case Of The Waspi Women Appeal Hearing. Bestest

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  660. Hope this information has put forward to The Appeals Court in the Case Of The Waspi Women Appeal Hearing. Bestest. BUT HAS IT SENT TO THE APPEALS COURT

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  661. An absolute heinous crime to women .yet again we are treated like fodder.i have been sheilding for 5 months now with no money coming in .did try to get contribution based benefit .I was denied it due to being self employed didn’t earn enough
    . to pay national insurance contributions.for 3 year .my occupation pays the very minimum anyway looking after children not considered a career. ,So I have had nothing from the government and no pension .what that says to me is women are the last resort .We are always expected to manage and just get on with things .But enough is enough we deserve justice for ourselves .we have to be given what is rightfully ours .what example are we setting for the future generations of our women ,just to accept being ignored .I don’t think so!!!!!!

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  662. I do think its disgusting working till your 66 and the kids today who can work will not let them take over our jobs

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  665. Yes but these wealthy robbers will have made sured they lined there own pockets this government are disgraceful and corrupt they should be reprimanded for there wrong doings

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  666. It’s robbery at its best and the only way to repay me and other workers if you can’t pay up what you owe in full is to at least offer some extra payment to our monthly income and make it tax free, while we’re alive, this is fraud I lost out because I was born 3 months to late, 5 extra years I actually worked which had earned me no extra pension as I had already paid enough in fuming isn’t the start of how I feel

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    • The government are paying out billions on all of the asylum seekers who are coming into the country who have never paid a penny in tax , they are also paying millions in aid to other countries yet they can’t pay back what they owe to women who where robbed of the pensions which they worked for. It’s disgusting and makes me ashamed to be British.

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  668. I have worked since I was 16yrs and now I am 63yrs if age. I had open heart surgery at 60 and still have to look for work during this epidemic, even though I am within the risk group!
    I have paid my National insurance for 35 years plus… and through no fault of my own, I am struggling financially and unable to find work!

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  669. Susan barbara moore started work at 15 worked all my life retired at 66 these scounging thieving filth should be jailed .how dare they treat us like this .absolutely disgusting and thievary they should be jailed

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  670. Married women who were very wrongly being underpaid are rightly soon to receive a lump sum and weekly increase in their pension which proves once again that mistakes were made and there is money in the pot to compensate ! Let’s hope this will lead to the goverment to consider the welfare and rights of us 50s women and we too will be compensated and be able to retire soon
    OUR LIVES MATTER too !!!

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  671. As each day passes and the news reveals Timorese and more money is being found to fund this and that I are for one strongly feel the urge to take to the streets in protest once this lockdown is over and I hope all the 50s women will also want to join a mass protest too to remind Boris and Co how we are suffering mentally and physically behind our closed doors everyday with very little money to live on, feeling forgotten and worn out Many women working in the care sector and on a casual basis so not entitled to sick pay yet are at great risk of getting Covid. Trying our hardest to survive and keep a roof over our heads with not enough to eat and keep warm. What a cruel callous state of affairs when senior citizens are neglected in this way whilst millions of pounds are found for other causes, and in a economic crises MPs see fit to take a pay rise !
    We must continue to fight this grave injustice not only for our sake but also for future pensioners too with the plans to keep changing the age to be eligible for state pension
    We must protest to protect the state pension from slowly but surely disappearing altogether !

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    • Well said I paid my dues for over 40 years and still they took my pension to give to the banks what I’d like to know is have they paid it back if not why and if they have we’re my pension

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  672. Ridiculous!! These people don’t care because they know they won’t have to work until they are 66. They must have made enough money from us tax payers and can afford to retire early anyway, unlike many of us who have worked solidly since age 15 and are now suffering the consequences and wondering if we will be healthy enough to enjoy our retirement. Of course, I suppose in one way, we are the fools. We should have done what a lot of people have done and not worked a day in their lives. We have helped them to get paid for staying at home and enjoying themselves, buying new cars, getting housing benefit etc yet still have enough money for holidays, alcohol and cigarettes. Something just doesn’t seem right or fair!!

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    • I know you’re feeling angry I am too but shouldn’t blame the ppl who are unemployed should be blaming the fat cats who took the pension fund that you and millions of us paid into all our lives gave it to the banks what I’d like to know is have the banks paid it back if not why if they have where is it

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      • Ive already done up to 66 its just a disgrace when most of us have worked from in general from 15 .They just rob poorer and i think the grabbers will just putting people up and up till people dont retire till they die .Buts it ok for them with their wages enough to retire at anytime .They are just thieving arrogant cruel thieves

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  673. Women who were born in the 50 s worked and brought up their kids that didn’t get help off the government like the mums of today eg child tax credits working tax credits , help with child care etc etc . We paid full stamp I for one worked more than 2 jobs and more than 60 hours a week so I could try to give my kids a better life . I classed my national insurance contributions as a saving like I did with my KCC pension I put in to . Then when I reached 60 I got my little KCC pension but my state pension got stole off me by the government and yes I call that theft . So instead of having both pensions I’m living on £376 a month and I would love this government to try to live on that but we all know they will get a massive pension so won’t have any worries . One law for the rich and another law for the poor and that will never change . Don’t these politicians realise what are are doing to their people and we vote for them . No wonder people move abroad to live this country is getting to be a joke . Strict on us but give the illegals everything that they moan about . Get a grip what you are doing or don’t you even care

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    • They are thieves along the car business they just to destroy us .thieving our transport our money what we have paid my dad before he died was so proud making.I had a good car a Merc now I’m going to get rid of it because of the thieving scrounging idiots that want working class down. My dad was dying me a beautiful car so is be ok. I’ve never had one like that before .Now I’m going to get rid off he even made it was full tank all tests it needed .but these evil heartless now mean it will have to go !!!! I am totally heartbroken.as far as I’m concerned i will never vote Conservative again they are sick cruel and disgusting thousands have to work (need their cars and won’t afford to do their work .Its total thievery of millions cars .they are sick cruel and evil just to line their own pockets .AS FAR AS CONS (GOOD WORD THEY HAVE DONE WITH ME AND MILLIONS OF HARD WORKING OR YET AGAIN OLDER PEOPLE THAT WITHOUT THEM AND LIMITED FUNDS WILL BE HURT BY THIS THROUGH THESE OVERPAID ARRIOANT IGNORANT OVERPAID EVIL PEOPLE IN PARLIMENT (THEY’L NEVER BE SHORT WILL THEY ? ITS DOWN RIGHT THIEVERY

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    • how do you survive? my income for last 15 years has been ZERO a month, forced on to other’s charity….but you can’t even rent a room in a shared house for so little money these days?

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  676. How have they been allowed to do this knowing the consequences in later years, so us 50’s born ladies are in fact paying with 6 years added, this has had nothing to do with equalisation of state pension at all. Descusting at all levels

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  677. I started work in 1972, paid full contributions and was looking forward to my retirement at 60. I too found out on a couple of years be fire that I would have to wirk until 66 . The hardship this had caused and now my health is suffering . I am 64 and can’t wirk the last two years . I feel like many others totally robbed by the government, this us not some sort of handout , this is our money that was taken from our pay packets for our pension . What gives the government the right to do such a thing . The hardship , stress and health issues this is causing on so many is terrible.

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  678. Well this just proves what robbers all the politicians mentioned are. The politicians in government today are only there for their own self interest, you can tell that by the massive pay rises they gave theirself 3 yrs in a row but trying to convince the hard working people the decision was made by an independent company they were underpaid, what a load of rubbish.
    I worked hard for 47 years was made redundant one month before covid and just before reaching 61. Have not worked since due to being high risk and finding a job when your over 50 is near on impossible. The politicians in this country has let down millions of hard working people so they could get richer. We need a new political party in place for workers of the UK not just themselves because unfortunately there is not one political party currently in place that I would trust. They are all out for their own ends as you can tell after what they have done to the retirement age.

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  679. Absolutely appalling way to treat 50’s woman.I have worked for 46 + years
    Past and present MPs should be contributing to our shortfall & not allowed to take a pension until they reach similar age .

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    • We 50’s born ladies have suffered by the hands of the govetment, why should we pay for their mistakes, they all should take a pay cut, pay all their taxes, stop the handouts to themselves then they would be enough for us to retire at 60 as this as always been the case

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      • My wife had to work another 5 years in a care home because of what the government did by robbing her of the pension which she and many others where entitled too, she now has chronic back pain because of those years. The money the government has paid out to asylum seekers and the increase they awarded to themselves would have paid for the pension that women where entitled too , it’s a disgrace.

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  680. I’ve worked full-time for 47 years,served in the army for 5 years,raised my 4 kids with no support .I have never claimed any moneys from the government due to unemployment. I have been robbed of my promise pension at 60 that I payed into in good faith for 47 years with no notice and they didn’t even wear a mask. Apparently there was some advert in the financial news paper s with a couple of dogs disgusing the new age increases. Missed it ! Mmm silly old bitch eh!

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  682. This is disgusting. There are young people crying out for jobs which we women as “50s” women are taking up by government rules. When I left school in 1976 I was trained by a women due for retirement in the next 6 months. This was the order of things, it enabled the women who had worked ( some since the age of 14) to retire whilst allowing the economy to run and young people to move into the workplace. When will the Government realise they aren’t doing themselves any favours with this as we are voters who might just be inclined to forget to go to the polls at next election? I have voted in every general election since the age of 18 as many of my “sister” 50s women have.

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  685. Everyone keeps saying 50’s woman but this includes early 60’s women as well. I will be 60 next January and would have expected my pension then but out of the blue I now have to wait another seven years.
    It is incredibly unfair.

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  686. The big error in this is that the “Fund” is virtual.
    State pension has always been
    Money in is “credited for future” but spent today.

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  687. The government’s, past & present have been taking money from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme, (M.P.S.) since the last deep coal mine shut.
    They TOLD the M.P.S, the government would guarantee the miners, (ex miners & their widows) pensions for a share of the Surplus, money from investments.
    It started out at 70% – 30% in favour of the miners, in 1994, it was changed, by the government, with a threat to the trustees of the M.P.S. of, “Take it or leave it” attitude, to 50% – 50%, since the setting up of the guarantee, past & present government’s have had over £4.5 BILLION from the M.P.S.
    Boris Johnson, in a pre election speech in Mansfield Notts that the tory government if elected would look into getting the Surplus Share back into a more satisfactory deal for the miners & their widows.
    We, the miners & widows, have two groups on Facebook, these two groups are campaigning to get the stolen money back, & to get the Surplus Share back to a favourable percentage for the miners & their widows.

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  689. MORE than enough to unfreeze the pensions of expats who live in the wrong country..
    Its time to correct the wrings of the kast 70 years.
    To the MOs that say welk thats hust the wsy its always been. With that attitude not to change laws whst us the oount of Parliament . If laws were not changed we would still have slavery, child labour and women would not have the vote.
    Its time for alk pensioners to be treated fairly where ever they live. If thry paif thrir conttinutiond they shoild get the fill pension.

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  690. I’m one of those women in poor health no pension 3 yrs to go 😢 still no sign of retribution it’s heartbreaking to know we were & still are being ignored . As things are there’s still no sign of paying us yet the P.M. still ignores our plight that he stated to look at it with fresh eyes ! Just a liar yet they ignore all the money they made personally amidst the pandemic mates rates . But still make us women suffer no assessment of damage , DWP malpractice it seems this is acceptable to public & DWP most will not reach pension age with Covid 19 in population . It’s time we got justice . I thank you For your support

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  691. i am a waspi woman and would be eternally grateful for anyone to help us gets what is due , please carry on the fight

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  692. Here one for you lot out there. I am a 50s baby. Lost my home and contents living in temporary accommodation waiting to get rehoused at my age. I’m 66 on 2nd July. Up until 3 weeks ago i was admitted to The Mental Health unit because of the thought of suicide. Sitting typing this i dont get any money till 7th july. Basically not got a pot to piss in. Not even got any milk or bread. Hey whose gonna help me? No wonder we have thoughts like that. I was on the streets for 5 days until i went into hospital. I was born and bred in this country and treated like a second class citizen i paid all my stamps over 40 years.

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    • I’m so sorry to read that…but heard it so many times before. They deliberately try and drive us to suicide and the torture us in mental prison…costing thousands times more from the taxpayers’ purse, at least. So who benefits? It’s theft and fraud whichever way you look at it….myself forced to survive as a slave to pedos for coming up 17 years now, no way out….just been reading on a young teenage girl who was tortured into killing herself in one of these places…..which, perversely, always results in more calls for more powers and resources to do it even more to people…..fcuked up world. Wish I was in a position to help you and so many others. A good friend of mine is 84, been locked up for over a year – I think they’re going to keep her there until she dies and they can then legally steal everything she has.

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  693. I totally agree, it’s really not acceptable. I with many others have worked all our lives. What is really annoys and gets me going is, if you havent worked all your life you get universal credits. If you are a immigrant come get all the privileges. I retired from my fully time job at 60 due to stress, but now work part time as I don’t qualify for my pension. Alright for politicians who have been born with a silver spoon in their months. Rant over. Really appreciate these people who fight for our rights.

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  694. I’m sick to death with these corrupt politicians. Ordinary people have what little money they have stolen. After working 45 years of full time working, bringing up two children, even working part time and full time for a while, politicians change the rules. Disgusted with it all. Things have to change.

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    • Only for woman.Men.wood lost.

      On Thu, 23 Jun 2022, 19:54 Westminster Confidential, < comment-reply@wordpress.com> wrote:

      Margaret Green commented: “I’m sick to death with these corrupt > politicians. Ordinary people have what little money they have stolen. After > working 45 years of full time working, bringing up two children, even > working part time and full time for a while, politicians change the rule” >

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      • All politicians should be ashamed of raising the pension age , it has deprived me of not being able to be with my partner who has retired.
        They are the first to give themselves a pay rise,first to welcome economic migrants into the country first to pat themselves on the back etc
        We don’t count, unfortunately pensioners have passed away during Covid what will happen to their national insurance contributions ?

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      • “what will happen to their national insurance contributions ?” oh they were spent many years back….it’s like they knew the pandemic was coming… 😦

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  695. You can’t announce equality at the destination when it was not there for the journey, it was nothing to do with equality at all, it was lack of funds, women paid more NI with them retiring at 60, got less wage than men, it’s still the same today with some women, also now a year added on for both men & women in total we will have worked 51 years

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  696. Absolutely disgraceful.
    I want my 24 years of contributions back and also the GOV contributions!

    No wonder we are the poorest pensioners in Europe!😡

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  697. I was born in 1957 so I don’t get my pension till next September now!
    I had a stroke 8 weeks before my 60th birthday I couldn’t work then and haven’t been able to work since, I have also been diagnosed with fibromyalgia so I am in constant pain too! My pension would have helped so much considering I have my husband has managed to keep us afloat working a zero hrs, minimum wage job and is due to collect his pension this November!
    I have said all along the Government wants us all to die before we can draw our pension!
    If we were ever win the opportunity to have a refund the Government would find a way to side step away from everything, even to pleading poverty and no money in the coffers! The rich will get richer, the poor will become ever poorer and the old will die younger so the government will scoop up the unclaimed pensions laughing all the way to the treasury!

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  699. The rich shall get richer and the poor can bugger of this is a serious crime and every one involved should be doing hard time

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  700. I knew it. That’s outright stealing. So they stole from the poor to make the rich richer basically, to bolster their own pensions. I believe in karma. They will all suffer in some way for doing this to us.i worked from when I was 14 years old , I had three jobs throughout school and was a teacher throughout my career. The amount of national insurance I paid out of my salary was phenomenal. I had to work in pain until I was 66. Never informed, never contacted. In 2019 I had to go to food banks. They stole a full 6 years of my hard earned state pension from me. I want it back.

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  701. Born in 1955, sitting at work on my 58th birthday and remarked only 2 years until retirement. One lady said you might want to check that. That was my first knowledge of the change in age. I was made redundant 4 months before retirement at 66. I had 2 months ‘retirement’ with my husband then nursed him at home for 4 months until his death in June 2021. After 47 years together we should have had 6 years retirement to enjoy.

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  702. I still want my money, I paid into the fund since I was 14 years old. The last years before retiring at 66 were the biggest struggle of my life, in 2019 I had to go to food banks.im divorced and without support, I developed serious arthritis in my spine and knees, I don’t drive so had to physically drag bags along the road back to my flat in winter rain and snow. This made me really Sick. Why should MPs have our funds for their retirement that’s stealing. I believe in karma.

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  703. So these politicians across parties, have knowingly contravened what we believed to be a contract and shifted the goal posts without consultation. All to line their own pockets.
    I finally get my SP in a few weeks but will still join in any fight to see this crime against women born in the 50s, recognised for what it is.

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  704. The ladies of the 50’s have been robbed of there pension due to the government. Most of these women have been working since the age of 15 myself included. We have paid enough money in the pot but have lost around £46k of what we were entitled. I hope for all our sakes Liz Truss acknowledges this and we are compensated

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  705. I am 63 I registered with government gateway at 58 this is when I found out I have 8 years to work not 2, I started work at 14 but full-time at 15, at 58 I had already got full pension but still pay NI for WHAT, They say it pays to work but its pretty obvious it does not for 50’s/60’s born, if we had equality throughout our lives then I agree but we did not, there is nothing fair what they did to us, my partner whom is 63 only 3 days apart in birthday, still has not had a letter to say he has to work an extra year, if the government want EQUALITY It should be throughout our lives as it has been for men, not when they decide 50 years later. Their is no fairness to how they have dealt us.

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  707. Surely,those that are alive should be accountable for those decisions and be taken to court ,as they took an oath in Parliament to serve the people of United Kingdom !

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  708. I was born 1961 and started full time work at 16 I have paid more than the required contributions. I am a carer and not on good health myself , and cannot work full time but I will not get my pension until 2028!! How is that fair . I have never had a letter, and when I became aware it was too late to provide . I cannot afford dental , glasses and struggle to pay the bills on just my husband’s low wage . Maybe the house of lords could donate their expenses that they don’t need . Not much to look forward to for me and thousands of others who thought can finally have a little easier life if I make it to 60

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  710. Absolutely should be ashamed and it should be reversed and all funds paid back to the people who have earned it.Disgusting, robbing, self serving politicians helping themselves as usual.

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  711. They are all corrupt they won’t hang there heads in shame because they don’t feel shame absolute clowns they have ruined this country as well I can’t put on what I feel about them 😈😈😈

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  712. I will never understand why this has allowed to happen when the sole purpose of this fund is for pensions & benefits, 3.8 million WOMEN ONLY suffer for their ill judged decision, many have passed away, many are ill, many lost their homes,many are struggling, which leaves me to believe that that 60 is the correct age for retirement, forcing us to work 6 years more to has a detrimental effect both physically & mentally, the message the government are sending the younger generation is it DOES NOT PAY TO WORK, lifetime working no longer pays, no respect, no honourability, no life no hope.

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    • My wife was deprived of her pension and had to carry on working for another five years as a carer in a nursing home which was a really hard job, she used to come home crying and became depressed, taking away her right to retire at 60 would have caused an uprising if it had have been in France or any other country but us Brits just have to lay back and do nothing , my wife and many others had  paid into  the government since they started work at 15 years old, the extra five years they had to work meant they had worked for 55years of  their life , a lot of people never lived long enough to see a pension . In my opinion it was stolen from them by the government.

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  713. Politicians seem to be in it for themselves,its not what they can do for the people but what they can do for them selves, wrong sort of people to be running this country

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  714. This is absolutely disgusting, disgraceful and I can’t believe how underhanded the government have been towards women, you should all be so very ashamed of what you have done and caused all the women of the 50s to lose out on thousands of unpaid pension amounts! Also unfair payments to men who got NI credits paid to them at 60 unlike women! hope this is all going to be paid back to us women ASAP as I think we have waited far too long as it is, Pay up you evil, cheating, deceiving bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  715. I think it is terrible we left school to work at fifteen and having to get work with it being after the war and rastioning .the government changed the pension age to 62 from 60 .i have worked on and off through my life brought up a family. Still worked part time to substitute our wage .and we lost year from leaving school early and two years age put in our pensions thats government for you .

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