Permission granted: 50s Women win historic case to judicial review on pension rights

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50s women dancing in front of the Royal Court of Justice after the judge granted their request for a judicial review

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A High Court judge  yesterday gave the Back To 60 campaign permission to bring a judicial review against the Department for Work and Pensions over the raising of the pension age  for 3.8 million women born in the 1950s.

The Hon Ms Justice Lang – who is also known as Dame Beverley Ann Macnaughton Lang – ruled in favour of all the issues raised by barristers Catherine Rayner and Michael Mansfield on behalf of the women.

The ruling by the 63 year old judge obviously stunned the Department of Work and Pensions whose barrister, Julian Milford, asked for  66 days ( instead of the normal 14 days)  to prepare a fresh case against Back To 60. They were granted 42 days.

The  ruling means that a future  hearing BackTo60 have the right to argue their case that the government’s decision which affected the 3.8 million  women was both  a matter of  gender and age discrimination. In addition they can argue that the total failure of successive governments to review the arrangements to look at the hardship faced by many of the people made  matters worse.

As is stated on the lawyer chambers site:

” the taper mechanism used to raise the date on which women receive state pension, in combination with a failure to properly inform women of the changes was unlawful because it discriminates on grounds of sex, age and sex combined and age.”

Catherine Rayner told the judge that there had been no fewer than 60 changes to the date  when a 50s woman could get a pension  and that the main driving force for the government was to save money. She said the equivalent of £5.3billion had been taken from this group of women. She described it as an ” historic inequality ” which was made worse by the lack of knowledge among the women themselves  because the government never informed them directly about the changes.

Julian Milford for the DWP, admitted that this was part of a cost saving for the government but also said it was about equalising the pension age between men and women.

He argued that there should be no judicial review of this because it was about primary legislation which had been widely debated in Parliament in 1995 and it was far too late to call it into question.

He also argued that a ruling by the European Court  of Human Rights which meant that pensioners who had retired to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa were not entitled to uprated pensions meant that the women had no case to ask for a judicial review about changing their pensions.

Both these points were rejected by the judge who said that even though the act was passed 23 years ago the fact that its impact was causing problems for the women now meant  the review could go ahead.

The government also revealed that the private pensions industry is  uneasy about the women winning their case because it could force them to pay out occupational pensions five years earlier to some women – if their contract with companies meant it was payable on the day they could collect their state pension.

As the 7BR website says:

“The hearing will allow a detailed examination of complaints made by made by women born in the 1950s, and championed by groups such as #backto60 and WASPIE, as well as their political representatives. The case raises legal questions about sex and age discrimination in the mechanisms chosen by government to implement a policy; the responsibility of Government to inform people of significant changes to State Pension entitlement and of the applicability of the EU directive on Equal Treatment in Social Security provision.”

My view is that it has significant implications for Westminster and Whitehall.

It means that a judge has quashed the views expressed by financial commentators  like  Frances Coppola and other people connected to the private pensions  and banking industry that there was no chance of a judicial review. It has also called into question the arguments they used over primary legislation and the  ECHR court ruling.

It will add to pressure on the Labour Party leadership to promise to do something for these women whose cause is championed  by Laura Alvarez, the partner of Jeremy Corbyn, and whose shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, is well aware of the issue, and predicted the women would win a review.

It will put enormous pressure on Amber Rudd, the new works and pensions secretary, who is already having to cope with the backlash over the mess caused by universal credit and will now have to seriously address the plight of the 50s women. It is also a  blow to the reputation of Guy Opperman, the pensions minister, who all but nearly misled Parliament by telling them that the judicial review had already been rejected.

And I am afraid the All Party Group on State Pension Inequality for Women in Westminster will have to buck their ideas up and come behind this review rather than seeking small sums of compensation for the affected women.  By taking this radical stand  and going for the jugular BackTo60 have shown the way. They have not won yet but they have got much farther than anybody thought.

 

 

 

 

 

1,145 thoughts on “Permission granted: 50s Women win historic case to judicial review on pension rights”

  1. What a heartening step forward. Well done to the pioneers and legal team. Without David Hencke I would have a much less informed view of this issue that has affected me directly.

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    • We as people approaching 60 shouldn’t have to work till 66. Women’s health deteriorate quicker than men as their bodies gone through so much. And we are the child carers for our grandchildren whose parents have to work and cannot afford childcare.

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      • Men are also child careers. So women who want pension at 60 while men must wait till 65 and women are moaning about equal pay for men and women so pensions should be in that category.

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      • Yes they should but back then women were paid a lot less than men so will they got back and readdress this short fall ? And it’s about not telling us just moving the goal post to suit them if we can find more and more money to send abroad why can’t we find enough money so that men and women can retire at a decent age.

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      • If that health thing was true then women wouldn’t, on average, live considerably longer than men as they do.

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      • Can governments steal our money without giving any notice? Why do members of parliament retire early on a fat pention .

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      • Thats exactly how I feel, I helped my children when they had there children, now this year my daughter will be 60, she already looks after her grand children on her two days off, to help out. She has just found out that she has heppititus C after a blood transfusion 34years ago, it’s been devastating to the family, but she still has to work until she’s 66 years of age , if she lives that long.

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      • Thank to this amazing steering group for fighting my corner i have worked al my life had to struggle on now at 62 no pension we should have more support i too look after granchildren so my daughter can work the hours she does

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      • I have osteoarthritis in my knees , I have another 10 years to work till i am 67. I can barely walk just now..
        ..Lower retirement age for women back down to 60. If you have your health and want to work on then that is your choice but we are not all the same and not all healthy at 60

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      • Utter rubbish. If women’s health deteriorates quicker than men’s then why do they live, on average, 5 years longer?

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      • It’s a massive step forward for women who have been unlawfully discriminated against. Our pensions were illegally taken away and arrangements previously made by just not the government pension but private pension companies were all affected by the same rules.

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      • I;m sorry, you,ve got that wrong about womens health detiorating quicker than mens. Women in the UK live longer than men.

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      • So how does that prove that our Health is not deteriorating just because you say we live longer maybe some do but what’s the point in living longer if you have bad health. Maybe if we had been paid the same wages as men for the same jobs we could have put more money aside for our pension.

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      • So you don’t really want equality then… Just to cherry pick. I’ve had my pension age raised to 68 yet I’m the very late 50’s generation too. Not exactly ‘equal opportunities is it’ what we should be asking is why women ever got to retire 5 years earlier than men, when on average they live at least 5 years longer. You just lost support from someone who always has supported equality (proper equality).

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      • I work in challenging behaviour care I’m nearly 60 and worked hard having 2 part time jobs when my children were little working weekends and evenings I truly don’t think I can do this until I’m 66 😔

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      • Not all women go through childbirth, many men work in physically demanding jobs all their lives, and men die younger on average because of this.

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      • You say not all woman go through childbirth which is true but they still work as hard as men doing the same jobs. Why shouldn’t we get our pensions when we want them people like you run the government that’s why we are all in the big brown stuff.

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      • I was 60 in April and would of been ready for my pension after working since I was 16 and the thought I now have to work another 6 years is quite worrying! Women have lost out after working all there life !! Unjust and unfair. Men used to retire at 65 they only lost out on 1 or 2 years !!

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    • Women are exhausted working beyond 60 in most jobs. They are carrying out work that they began in their teenage years or early twenties. To give examples concentration physical work brain and cognitive function all reduce as we become older. Women maybe care givers to elderly parents and help with looking after Grandchildren whilst working full or part time. We were not given enough time to pay into work or private pensions to enable enough money would cover us froml 66 or older. I know many women who have left work at 60 plus many years before they receive the state pension and are trying to survive on a much reduced income. This is so unfair. Liz Faragher

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      • This doesn’t just affect women. Your ‘health deteriorates quicker’? On average you live 5 years longer than a man. Lots of men do heavy manual labour or heavy work. Your argument lacks any objectivity. I’m now working to 68…they didn’t give me any warning, I have health issues, I’ve worked hard all my life so why do women think you’re a special case?

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      • I am writing this by way of explaining to the person that says a man has always done till 65 yrs etc.
        I did in fact write to The then DWP Minister Richard Harrington and Guy Opperman about this matter, early in our campaign. I come from a long line of construction family. I would of loved to Hv gone into that field. In1969 I started work at 15 as a filing clerk which wasn’t inspirational. In school as part science we had to bathe plastic babies make beds and cook for our future husbands. We did all the childcare. If a woman had suggested to her hubby to take time off work as a child is sick, he would of thought you mad. Think about it fella these ladies were in the main unable to get enough ‘stamps’ so you see there’s the inequality. You can’t escalate State Pension Age on the generation who never had equality.
        Today’s criteria to receive State Pension is 35yrs (was 30 until recently) many women and men will Hv done 51!
        I agree not fair men in manual or doing heart surgery but the latter can afford retire earlier pay into private pension. The CRUX We disagree with the way women were caught out by not being notified of an unprescedented 6 yr increase(The Office of National Statistic,Cridland Report rec’ds 1yrs NOTICE for every 10 )
        I hope this explains to any gent who thinks we are trying to get ‘one up’ at their expense or indeed anyone who wonders why we are so aggrieved.
        If I tell you that there was a lady who stood outside The High Court all day in the day of the hearing, she had literally just had breast cancer surgery and still had her drain in! Perhaps the image of that will bring it home to you.
        Once again thanks to David Hencke for giving us the opportunity of taking part in this forum , forever grateful ‘The Clippy’

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      • If you have paid over 48 years NI like myself.. I may empathise with you.. I still have over a year to go and still paying in. I will then have 50 fully paid years..

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      • I would like to add to this that women’s working life is so much more complex than men. Women’s maternity leave means any work related pension is negatively hit also. This makes it so much harder to get a good pension without putting extra years. I am still working full time, have an elderly mother to factor in and grandchildren, I am now 65 and do feel that as a woman nothing is actually equal because we work non stop at home and in the workplace. Our domestic duties support the social care bill

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    • Yes several (men) are fair and see reason. I like how they do it in the states (women’s lives vary, hardship thru to privilege) you can take your pension in your early 60’s or wait and take it at 65. The UK government could do the same offer a reduced rate for those at 60 (but still a livable income) or wait until 65/66 for full retirement income.
      Is it ideal maybe not but its a whole lot better than the SCAM the privileged boys club pulled 23 years ago and the fight that is enduring.
      Interesting observation when things get tough why is it women are always appointed in high positions….you never see or hear of them before and then with DWP a new person……and it’s a lady of course. Brexit – Theresa May.

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      • Really, May’s handling of Brexit a shining example. I’d rather not beat the drum for women on that, as I’d also like to forget Mrs Thatcher! As for Amber Rudd being unknown, she was Home Secretary for nearly 2 years, having to resign over the Windrush scandal.

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      • Don’t forget that it was justifiable but ultimately stupid male complaints asking why women should get their State Pension 5 years earlier than men, not the Government, that started all this. The reason for them being stupid was the request that pension age should be equalised at age 60 and the belief that there was any chance that the Government would do that, at great cost. It was obvious to anyone with a brain that what would happen would be the equalisation of pension age at 65 to actually save a fortune.

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      • I’m the same as you I’m 63 and in poor health and the dwp have said I’m fit for work I’m doing an appeal but it’s a horrible situation, I have fibromyalgia and in constant pain

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      • I am 65. I to had do retire through ill health all I received from the DWP was £39 a week. I had to sell my house in order to have money to live on…….

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    • I shed years when I read this . I am nearly 64 and I have to work until I am 67. I work full time and also help my daughter with her childcare so she can go out to work. I pay out quite a lot from my salary on tax and Ni contributions and what have the government done with all the money they have stolen from us women? . I am absolutely exhausted and would love to retire or even cut down on my working hours but can’t afoard to. The government talks about equality when it suits them but women are still the main care givers for their children, grandchildren and elderly parents.

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      • I’ve just turned 64 and still waiting for my pension, can’t work because of health issues and having to live off my husband’s pension as I was caring for a family member so couldn’t claim anything of my own.

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      • No you don’t if you are nearly 64 you get your state pension at 66 fact I know as I am exactly that age and get my state pension at 66

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      • I had to check with the pension people..I’m going to be 65 in October And advised I would be nearer 67. So there is a bit ambiguity around information out there. .

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      • YES!!!! what a result! I was born in 1957 and the only reason I know when my retirement date is, is because I filled out some info on the gov site. I started work 1 mth after my 15th birthday and can’t retire until June 2023 on my 66th birthday and I’m totally angry at this. Thank you to the women who have campaigned for this I’m so proud of how far you have gotten

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    • If we have money to send to mothers and children in other country’s because spouce is over here and who have never paid tax and NI We as pensioners were Entitled to our pension at our original pension age Of60 I waited 5 years and the bit that I really am disgusted in is the 5 months .then a month behind . Disgusted

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    • The ruling above gives some hope to us all and Well Done for al the hard work you have already Done ,im one of the ladies who has missed out on my pension ,also was previosly told all my records lost ,when they updated the computers ,and worry i will never get any pension at all .

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    • I’m 60 had to give up work through health issues and having live off my husband pension! It’s all wrong , we all ways planned our money for pension age and now having to live on a much lower income!
      I understand getting equal for men and women, but from 60 to 66 is a huge difference and we could not do anything to prepare for our retirement. We all worked, looked after parents and helped with grandchildren, when it our time to relax.

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    • I am a 64 year old lady and I accepted I would have to wait till my 64th birthday to receive my state pension that I had paid into for nearly 50 years as this was implemented very early on in my working life, so why then should a government come into office some 12 years ago and change it to 66.when I rang DWP I was told if I had been born before 14th October 1954 I would have got my state pension in December 2018 even though this does not come into force until November 2020. I can’t even have a bus pass. I have all my working life paid a full stamp.So yes I do object to having to wait a further two years for an entitlement I am due and have paid into for all these years. This is nothing to do with the age men retire. I fully agree that what should have happened when the government was debating this was the pension age for men should have been reduced to 60 alongside women giving our young people a chance of employment and skills. After all we are all entitled to a retirement.Perhaps if politions were capped on their expenses we would be able to claim our pensions at a age where we can have a quality of life in our retirement.

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      • Hi, who was it that told you if you were born before October 14th 1954 that you would get your pension in Dec 2018? Funny that as I was born 13th Oct 1954 and have to wait till Oct 2020 when I will be 66??????

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    • Heart warming to see this going a step in the right direction. Sincere thanks to all involved in instigating this process.

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    • Brilliant news I was born in 1960 and fell in to this group. I started to plan for my retirement in my mid thirties and then found out not from the DWP but from the papers that the retirement age had been raised. I was looking to retire with 33 years full contributions now when I do retire I will have 50 years full contributions. Next year will be my 60th birthday which should have been a great celebration to retire as well but know I have to work until I am 67. It is so wrong. You have my backing all the way good luck .

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    • I think the issue here is that the women expected their pension at 60, and so made decisions and financial arrangements based upon this date. The pension age was subsequently raised by 6 years +, and women did not have sufficient time or money to put alternative financial measures in place. Men however were expecting to retire at 65, and so the 1years+ does not impact quite so much. However, I appreciate that 66+ is too late for most- particularly those working in environments which require long hours, are stressful or demand physical strength. Individual circumstances such as health issues, family needs and financial circunstances also play an important role in the age you feel able/want to work.

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    • Iv worked all my life. Due to having to operation in the last 3 years I had to give up work. One was a stroke.I’m 66 this year.. I should be enjoying life now but for the coverment put a stop to that.

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  2. Thank you for this, David….I know you were in Court yesterday, so saw and heard it all firsthand. We WILL win, David, even if Court Case goes against us, for somehow, we’ll bring this country to a standstill…We will NEVER give in, nor back down, nor allow this HEINOUS CRIME to continue, nor those accountable for it to be permitted to get away with it,.To learn though, that the main reason the PRIVATE PENSIONS INDUSTRY have been SO AGAINST us, throughout this time, many of their staff HOUNDING us on Twitter, calling us terrible names, making out we’re all lying, all greedy and selfish, in the hope that they will NEVER have to pay out 1950s women’s PRIVATE PENSIONS from 60, just beggars belief! They’ve EVEN tried to turn our children/grandchildren’s generation against us too…This is UTTER EVIL and these people should also be charged with Gross Negligence Manslaughter, in my view, along with EVERY politician and member of DWP who’ve gone along with the most HEINOUS CRIME against women in my lifetime, for many women on Twitter have been DEEPLY affected by the appalling things these vile people have been saying to us and about us….women who are, in many instances, already so deeply and darkly depressed that they can barely think straight any longer….

    Again, THANK YOU for this and for ALL the other mountain of research and informative blogs you’ve done for 1950s women, for BackTo60….It is SO appreciated. BIG hugs! xxx

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    • I worked full time and looked after my ageing Aunt and my Mother I also have grandchildren – my health deteriorated and I struggled to hold everything together I wanted to retire at 60 yr was was financially unable. I continued to work but struggled physically and emotionally. Last year I had a Heart Attack and recently diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Not everyone is able to work until they are 66yrs!
      I think 50,s women have been discriminated against in every way! The way this legislation was introduced is disgraceful and corrupted. This was sneaked in by the back door in the hope that they could pull this off without any fuss !!!

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      • I will be 64 in April.I have a degenerative disease and disabled.I have to work until I am 66 before I get my government pension.This government is downright wicked.I can no longer work and will be sacked.I have worked for the council for 26 years and will not be medically retired because I never paid into a pension.If it had been explained to me why I should pay into a pension then I would have paid into it.Being medically retired has nothing to do with health but money.Also discriminating against the disabled is not fair policy.I am unable through health issues to work.Maybe if I was an able-bodied person I could work till that age.So disablement discrimination comes into this category for us all to.

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      • I thank all the women and men who have fought for this. It’s about time the Government realised that this is not going away. Women fought to vote and this is another battle which will be won. I have really bad health and had to stop working and I struggle financially daily.

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      • What these people whom make this ruling is that women don’t just go out to work they are working all the time children homes family commitments hope you feel better

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    • …..and i’m told that the person who instigated this retired at 61 years on a full pension and handout of 200k+ annual payout…..one rule for the elite and another for the rest of us beggars belief…..AND they think they can get away with it ho hum!

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      • Born in 1954 now 65 years old and I’ve been robbed of 5 years of my pension. I started work at 15 years old and paid into the pension funds for 50 years where Is that money that has been taken from me. If this had been stolen from me by someone they would be done for fraud.

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    • My wife, who works at the University, has to wait for her occupational pension to be paid at 65 after years of pension forecasts saying what her pension would be at age 65. We never saw any notification of the change and she was convinced it had always been 65 until I said that I remembered it being 60 and going back through old forecasts to prove that it was. She will have to wait until age 66 for her State Pension. Robber barrons.

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    • How can they make remarks dam ignorance makes my blood boil! Get these spineless idiots in front of us women well tell them! We are campaigning for what is rightly ours how dare they!! I am really hoping the retirement age reduces down to 60 for future generations if it’s too late for us 50s ladies. I am 63 next week working as carer and physically and mentally tired. We really need to see positive result. Fingers xx

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      • I was born in 1952 & will be going back to school full time for my 46th year of teaching in September. I am way past my retirement age and admittedly have no health problems. I ate my way backwards out of Diabetes 2 (radically changed my diet) so avoided all that goes with that as I’m no longer diabetic. You do not pay contributions to your own pension when you work, you pay for those who are already retired. As the demographic triangle has been upended there are now more 65+ people than there are younger workers. Consequently it is simply not sustainable to pay pensions from 60 onwards to a population that is living far longer than previous generations. My mother taught for 28 years but received a pension for 30. That is, I repeat, unsustainable. The other ridiculous thing is that when you reach retirement age you no longer pay NI contributions if you are still working. Why not? There’d be a lot more money in the govt’s pot & what you’ve never had you don’t miss. If we want equality with men then we should indeed get a full pension, with credits paid by the govt for years off to raise children etc, but we should get the pension from the same age that men do. Equality is equality, not just in fields of our choosing.

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      • The government choose to pass the equality law and the didn’t follow through, that’s the point.

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      • The government choose to pass the equality law and then didn’t follow through, that’s the point.

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    • There are lots of people like me out there, who will stand up for you if need be when the time comes. I.e if you need to bring it even more so into public domain.
      I totally agree with what someone said above, in this day n age most women have to go to work, so not only have we brought our own children up and worked we are now helping our children to bring g our grandchildren up and work. As well as looking after our parents in Ill health.
      It’s like a big wheel. Government need to look at the bigger picture. If we didn’t have to juggle work childcare n elderly care when older, people may not need to rely on local services as much for help. I.e day care, nurserys, home help etc….
      If you need the wider publics help, try n make more public on media sites etc…. we will be their to support you all x

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      • Those saying about there not being enough in the pot to pay out are forgetting about men that paid in for 35 years and were due to retire but died…. at one time their wife would get a widows pension from their contributions for their life unless they remarried or Co habit ed. Now 60 % of what the wife should have received is deducted if the men also paid into a private pension scheme, the wives are then taxed on both pensions again at 20% minimum rate. Plus nowadays the wife only gets the widows pension for 1 year !!! So all this additional money paid in especially if the man is not married or a widower goes back into the government pot to pay to people who have not paid in yet can get a pension. People may be living longer but where are the statistics regarding the amount of men and women that paid in but didn’t live long enough to get their pensions ? Also although wives get a widows pension if their husband’s die, men do not get a widowers pension if the wife dies irrespective of how many years she had paid in …. I left school on Friday and started work on the Monday, I have been on the dole for just 1 year following the birth of my second child and never received any benifit’s ever. Yet my heating allowance was defered at 60 til 63 and at 63 defered til 65 .. my pension defered from 60 til 66 and I doubt very much if I will get it then … The money my husband worked 35 years for was taxed and NI contributions taken pro rata, 60% is now deducted as he also paid into a private pension and I am taxed again on both pensions. But to add insult to injury a further amount has been taken of £28pm as tax I would have been paying on my own pension even though I can’t get my pension until I am 66 !!! How can this possibly be fair?

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    • It’s been in the news for over 20 years so people should have been prepared surely. You can’t blame others if you do not prepare yourself for what has been widely reported about for 20 years and more. Why should women retire earlier than men, when women typically live longer too. Where’s the equality in that. It’s only right all people retire at the same age.

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      • Many men die young because they drink and smoke and generally abuse themselves more. But they also earn so much more! Then they die of stress.;)

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    • Well said Lizzie – this is after all OUR money not a benefit also – my dates have been moved not once but TWICE due to when i was born second change mean;t waiting another 18 months. I cannot work due osteo in both knees cannot walk – they are unlawful in not giving us not only our money but the contribution of our previous employers. Surely to god they have broken a Contract which would NOT be allowed in any other areas of business. And the insufficient time for people to organise their lives to allow for the delay in receiving our pensions, it cannot happen overnight it takes years.

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    • Thank you BackTo60 for all your hard work it is much appreciated. I started full time work at age 15 and have worked most of my life. Where is the money i paid to the government for my pension? They didn’t even have the decency to inform me that they were going to Rob me of 6 years pension. It is disgraceful the way the government has carried this out.

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    • The Pension age for Women should have stayed available at 60 years and for men be brought down to 60 yrs. Lots of people struggle with health etc way before they turn 60.

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    • I am 60 My job is doing night shifts in the caring for the elderly. And I have been doing this job for a long time. I don’t know how long I can do this job

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  3. As a 1950’s woman I am absolutely delighted that we are going to have our day in court. Successive governments have hidden behind equality laws, cherry picking those that would encourage the majority to demonise our situation. Misogynists, rife with bile, now seem to have been outed by Philip Alston, Rapporteur for United Nations, actually stated that the policies put in place over the past ten years, in the name of austerity, could not have dreamed up anything worse for the majority of women, who, he said, had been the most affected by all of the cuts. All women.

    Along with the information regarding how representatives have attended meetings regarding CEDAW, Equality Rights and Human Rights discussions and signed up to abiding by them and have in fact broke more than they have upheld. The State Pension being one, gender pay, Care Act 2014 supposedly put into place to help carers, the majority of who are …….yes you gused it women!!!

    I hope and pray that this opens the doors for other organisations to question detrimental to women legislation.

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  4. The changes to women’s pensions is immoral.
    The government changed the number of years to pay National Insurance from 30 to 35 years!
    I paid back National Insurance up to 30 years: I have just found out I have to pay 5 more years to get a full pension! I will get my pension in 4 months time when I am 65 years & 3 months- were they ever going to tell me I needed to pay 5 more years of National Insurance contributions to receive the maximum pension?
    I completed my forms online months ago & am still waiting to hear how much more I have to pay.
    If I don’t pay before March 2019, then I have lost the difference in pension payments, but I’ve done everything I’ve been asked to do but the pensions office is delaying informing me.
    The irony is, had I received my pension at 60- which was MY right, I would NOT have had to pay 5 more years NI contributions!!!!!!
    Who is going to stand up for is 3.9 million women?

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    • I have a letter from the Pension Sevice dated March 2012 advising that my pension age would be my 66th Birthday (born Dec 1954). The same letter states: ‘The numer of ‘qualifying years’ of paid or credited National Insurance contributions you need for a full basic State Pension has been reduced to 30 years.’ The goal posts just keep changing!

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      • I was also born in June 1954 (5th).
        My pension eventually pays out in December 2019, instead of my 65th birthday.
        OK, I’m male .. but we to have been discriminated by the pension age meddling.

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      • I received a similar letter in June 2012 stating that the qualifying years was 30. I had 32 years – it said I need do nothing. Found out by chance about it being raised to 35. Have managed to pay two lump sums of NI contributions (£750 approx each) from a meagre private pension pot which is almost gone. Will still fall short of full pension (three months short of 66th birthday) due to ‘contracting out’ (because I took out a private pension when briefly earning well). So doubly conned. It makes my blood boil. Thank you David Henke and all supporters of this calumny.

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      • I was also born in 1954 and had expected to receive my pension age 60. Because of this disgraceful discrimination I have had to take up another job which is very part time but all that my health will allow me to do. Sadly I am worse off than I would be if getting my pension as most part time work is very poorly paid. It’s high time that this government was held to account as it continues to discriminate against the poor and women!

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      • Yes. YOU are responsible for checking that you have paid enough full years.
        I’m still trying to sort mine out- when is the UK Govt going to join the 21st century & have ID Cards so we don’t have to contact multiple departments about our pensions?

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      • You should contact HMRC to find out about your contributions or register on GOV.UK and you can get a forecast it will show you how many years you have paid and exactly what years you have missed. Mind if your in a works pension they years don’t count towards your 35

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    • Hi
      What about the women who through working part time paid a reduced married woman contribution, being told they would be able to claim off their Husbands contributions. I have worked at least 40 years but on checking DWP web site I have only 27 years contribution. my Husband has 45+ years. surely some of these belong to me as promised.

      Eileen from Halifax

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      • The married women’s reduced-rate NI contribution (originally costing 4d a week to cover ia state pension paid for by full-rate NI)ustrial injuries benefits only) was not just for part-time employment. Any woman could choose it over paying vastly more expensive full-rate NI contributions and most newly married women did, so they could get maximum take-home pay. They had to sign a declaration acknowledging that they were aware that these 4-penny stamps did not count for anything but industrial injuries benefit ie not for sickness benefit or retirement pension. The reduced-rate NI for newly married women was abolished about 40 or 50 years ago but existing women paying it could continue to pay it. The married women’s pension on her husband’s insurance was introduced because, at that time, most married women did not work so enabling them to rely/get a pension (albeit less than on their husbands’ NI for a pension. A married man paid no more NI than a single man but his wife got that pension on his NI, effectively a freebie In the later days, long after abolition of the right to pay reduced-rate NI, say about 10 or 15 years ago, when most married women worked and had to pay full-rate NI, the married-women’s pension, as it was known, was considered an anomaly and hence abolished. Nothing unfair at all about that situation.

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    • Don’t forget that it’s only a few years ago that the Government reduced the working life (the number of years you have to pay full-rate NI contributions to qualify for a full basic pension) from 44 years for a man and 39 years for a woman to 30 years for everyone, supposedly to simplify the position. The real reason why was that at the same time by abolishing earnings-related pension (SERPS) and replacing it with a flat-rate (though increased over existing basic) State Pension would save a shed-load of cash. Obviously if they have now up’d it to 35 years (I’m no longer up-to-date on pensions legislation) it
      simply means that, with hindsight, they didn’t save as much as they predicted and now want to claw more back.

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      • They say 35 years how comes most of us are paying 50 full years contributions but we don’t get any more pension I have checked my government pension it says that I have 44 years fully paid but that I must carry on working till 2024 why?

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      • Sounds like you were opted out SERPS, I’m the same worked 44years but have to work another 5years to get full state pension, I worked for police and all public workers are the same

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      • But I have never worked for the public sector I was a merchant seaman, public house landlady, factories worker and retail so when was sector out I’m really puzzled 😕

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      • The entire pensions rehash has/ is a complete mess, since it was meddled with to save money. It might have saved money on pension payments, but the effect on the health service, families, relationships and poverty are potentially vastly higher. Those things have a cost to society too!

         Women born I the 50s, were promised a pension at age 60, yet after a lifetime of work the goal posts have been moved and some are expected to work until age 67. Meaning that some women,  if they continued working after age 60, to age 67 they would have contributed  NI for 51 years!!!! That in itself creates a huge discrepancy in fairness and equality for all.  I do wonder if a full equality impact assessment was carried out when the changes were first suggested, and the equality impact assessments on the speeded- up changes was also considered fully in the round? Maybe those documents are key to the issues hand and need careful scrutiny, they may be key to women getting the pensions they paid in for. People in/ or with a mix of private and public work have the added blow, in that they were FORCED to be in serps, thus reducing their expcted state pension further. The includes staff such as nurses and social service staff, who were more !ikely to be women at the time.   Sadly,  Trades Unions perhaps also need to take some responsibility here, as they should have been aware of the potential problems, such changes and inclusion in serps would create. Some Trades Unions now appear to have disassociated themselves ( or remained very quiet)  on supporing  the plight 50s women now face. That needs to change if the Trades Unions really care about equality. The new state pension arangements require 35 years of contributions, so someone in both central government and DWP  needs to do the maths, and recognise that 50s women have been dealt a very poor deal indeed.  Let’s hope that Micheal Mansfield QC can get the Government to see the inequality that exists, and replace the stolen pensions.  Thank you David for your continued use support with the matter. Kayti

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    • Do not buy any contribution years before 2016. All those years pre 2016 are capped at 30 and buying more years will not get you one more penny in pension. I am the exact same age as you and when I asked why I had 40yrs of full contributions I wasn’t entitled to full pension, that is what I was told by the DWP, only years bought after 2016 would increase my pension as that could only be a maximum of 4yrs so I still couldn’t get a full pension.

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  6. Congratulations David, this is yet another informative wee article (mind you’ve accidentally put “3.8 million wonder” instead of “3.8 million women” & duplicated “made by” in the 12th paragraph, but I digress, lol) 👍 We #50sBornWomen at #BackTo60 really do so appreciate you! Total Thanks (TT) #OneVoice

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      • I too am a 1954 born February woman eventually my pension will be paid in August this year don’t understand why ? That is surely should be paid on 65 birthday! Anyway I too really appreciate your support and pray for a positive outcome and that I won’t have to continue the daily grind through another summer it is my dream to have less financial pressure and a nest egg for my latter years
        Thank you David X

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      • My own example demonstrates the craziness of these changes. Your 65th birthday is in February and you say pension will be paid in AUGUST 2019. My 65th is in October. And my pension will not be paid till OCTOBER 2020 when I am 66. I would give up my job for someone younger however not possible as I need incone too!!

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      • Yes me June 1954 Can’t retire till Jan 2020 Just had to start yet another new job! I hear there are delays when we reach Pension Age. Once JD out the way I am going to check that out. If you know anyone already retired and you know when they got their first payment please share so we all know what to expect. I will ask my school mate, was in my year at school but born 53 already retired. She worked BA since 16. I Hv had more jobs than that since I should of retired at 60😕good luck ladies Angie @Retrowedding #BATTLEBUS

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    • Under the old State Pension rules a man had to pay 44 years of qualifying years NI to get a full basic pension, whereas a woman only had to pay 39 (both called the working life). Yet another anomaly. Revised about 10 years ago to 30 years for both. Now out of the loop in pensions info, I see that people are saying that it’s upped to 35 for both. If so, then that’s just a money-saving Government trick.

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  7. Absolutely brilliant!! Restored my faith in the judicial system 😉….a huge thank you to the barristers and all the tenacious ladies who kept on fighting THANK YOU xxxxxx

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  9. Thank you David for getting the information and analysis out to us so swiftly and providing a link to the transcript, gratefully received and posted out to all my contacts.

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    • I am 65 in April but dont get my pension until November .WHY. it should be 60 for both women and men . We have worked long enough . Let the young ones take over . Should have apprenticeships for all young people . Not everyone can work on due to ill health . Me included

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      • It will end up the whole work force will be elderly and the young will all be out of work all thanks to this stupid goverment

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  11. I am absolutely delighted with this outcome. I am just hoping the judicial review has such a positive outcome. I will be 64 in January and , like the many others, I only received a letter 2 years before my 60th birthday saying my SP age was now 64yrs and 10 months, then shortly after that another letter saying it would now be 66!!! I cried, how can that be fair or legal? A huge change like that should have been phased in over many years not bulldozed in and MPs parting themselves on the back. They should walk in our shoes. ….
    Thank you so much to everyone who is fighting our corner.

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    • I was 64 in October and am due to retire in September 2020 – three weeks before my 66th birthday. I never received any letters stating pension age changes, I looked up the changes online. My retirement age moved from 60 to 64 and then a double whammy when it changed again and moved to three weeks short of my 66th birthday. In all, just short of six years extra to work.

      Denise

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      • I’m just the same. went 64 in August and can retire a few weeks before my 66th birthday. I also have not had any notification of this. I had to look up om web site. it’s really disgusting. My Husband who is nearly 67 is still working as he says what is he going to do all day while I am working.

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      • Exactly the same scenario for me. I never received any correspondence and only discovered that my pension age had changed to 63 when I looked it up on the government website, aged 59. I was devastated. Even more devastated when I looked it up a year later and was told I would be 65 years and 10 months when I would receive my pension. Still no correspondence. It has been changed and I will get it 5 months earlier now. Whoopee.

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      • I was 64 8th September but my retirement date is 6th Sept 2020. It went from 60 to 63, 65 then 66 so you may be wrong thinking you’re retiring 3 weeks early!

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  13. The maladministration goes further than not informing women properly because the governments that have been power failed to put in the correct legislation to ensure that work places provide a pension. That has only been enforced last year and some large companies get round that via zero contracts or very part time hours.
    All people should retire at 60 men and women. We are blocking jobs from the younger generations and are unable to care for elderley parents and grandchildren. I had come very depressed about this, but am vastly cheered! I am going to write again to my MP Karen Bradley who is the only MP who failed to hand in her constituency’s WASPI petition. Thankyou.

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    • Several years ago I emailed my MP to ask what his views were on this very subject, his assistant emailed back a few weeks later requesting my post code, I can only assume it was to check that I was one of said MPs constituents. 12 months later, having heard nothing I emailed again, still no response to this day. I can only assume he didn’t wish to give his views. Disgusting.
      1953 born and still working but very very tired..

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  14. I am one of the women affected. I wanted to retire at 60 to look after my mother who was ill and frail. I ended up working until I was 64 and 5 months. I could not get my state pension before then. I did get time with my mum. 5 WEEKS and then she died. Angry and sad
    Thank you to all the people who are pushing this forward. To the women who have protested thank you. To the people who are standing up for what is moral and right. Thank you

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  15. Well done all. A great step forward. Lets hope the goverment get a huge knockback on this one. I am feeling pretty vindictive at the moment having been told i have to keep my business going to enable me to pay class 2 self employed NI contributions until 2022 (my pension date) or lose around £20.00 a week off my pension for the whole of my retirement. This was despite having 38 years fully paid NI contributions. No proper explanation when i asked why had we all been informed that we needed 35 years worth to get our pension. Felt compleatly misled. Was more than a little supprised and very upset about this as i am finding it so tiring and was hoping to be able to slow down a bit.

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  16. They want to bring women in line with men for retirement but have they said that they will also reconcile the wage differences between 1950s woman and her male counterparts as the men earned more meaning that they could put more into thier their pension?

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  20. Thankyou David for your continued support and putting into words what is happening. I was born in 1956 and put in for retirement when I was 59 1/2 not realising I had to wait another 6 years for my state pension. I hope we can win because I don’t think 50s women will give up.

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  21. Just so so overwhelmed that you have got us ladies a step further to win our battle. After losing my husband to Cancer 11 years ago at the age of 49 and getting Cancer myself once in 2010 and a different Cancer in 2015 always worked up until then I hope I will be here to see a happy ending to this outrageous unfairness the government has put us ladues of the 50s in I am 62 next birthday so.please please keep fighting for us xx

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  22. Thankyou David for all of your help and support. Governments should have realised that there would not be employment for people of our age! and then not to give us any support is disgusting! How would they like to be in our position! But of coarse, they make sure they are alright!!!

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  23. A well deserved outcome for all of the women who have been treated as if they don’t matter & had had their money taken from them illegally. Laws have been broken & it was assumed that women would not fight back.
    Thankyou to all those who have made it possible for this to happen & given hope where it was needed.

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  24. Thank you David for your clear explanation on the position of the Judicial Review and thank you for all your research and investigation into the 1950s women’s pension scandal. This injustice is so huge, total maladministration and mismanagment and not just failure to inform women of the changes but misleading information (Govt websites in 2016 still informing women they retired at 60 years of age, Job Centres giving the same information.) Many women made life-changing decisions before knowing of the changes to their pension ages but many of their husbands and partners did too. Some husbands and partners were being made redundant during the austerity cuts and making their choices on their redundancy and early retirement based on believing their wives, partners had their pensions at 60. So many organisations and companies were not even aware also of changes and advising their retirees accordingly. So many in this position made uninformed decisions on their futures which has compounded the already critical situation for women. We will never give up. Thank you.

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  26. Great news. My pension age has moved twice but at no point have I received any notification. I know many women for whom this has caused hardship because their ability to pay into a private pension was affected by years spent child rearing whether full or part time. It is still mainly women who arrange their lives around their families, who give up work to look after relatives, and whose earnings and therefore pensions are adversely affected. We deserve a better deal.

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  27. Leaving everything else to one side, the Barber judgement in 1990 ruled that rights to occupational scheme benefits had to be equal between men and women. This has been underscored by the recent Lloyds ruling.
    Regardless of any ruling in this Judicial Review, that principle will not be affected.

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  28. Thank you for all your support but was wondering if you could answer something for me .
    I was born 1955. 2 pension people told me l would be 65 from 1995 act but there was a paper artical in the guardian 6th October 2009 with David Cameron stateing from 2010 /2020 women’s pension age goes up by one year every two that’s proves l was going to be about 63 from the 1995 act as many other women have said
    but then they brought in 2011 act which gave me an extra 3 years not 18 months as government keep saying
    If l was going to be 65 from 1995 act and was born 1955 that’s would mean the 1995 act was done between 2010 to 2015 and they did not need to bring forward the 2011 to 2016
    Women born 1950 retires 2010
    Me 5 years younger get mine 6 years later how can that be fair .
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    • The 1995 act timetable is viewable online. If you were born in 1955 your spa would have been 64-65 under the 1995 act.

      The statement from the guardian article is by the author, rather than a direct quote from Cameron. It also stated that the age of 60 would increase by 1 year every 2 years upto 2020. This is correct, although it could have been clearer.

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    • Yes good comment. My work colleague born early 60s, she has no idea when she will retire. She works 6 days has arthritis in her knees and back, physically she is knackered can not retire been told by the goons w/o have peas for a brain she is fit to work !

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    • I am one of those people. Born January 1960, so looks like still won’t get a pension till I’m 66 even after paying the required years. Plan was to go part time at 60 due to I’ll health.

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  30. Many thanks to all involved in this fight for the 50s generation of women. We who left school at 15 and 16 and worked for years on lower pay than male workers; we were denied access to further education (eg all females and I was one, were denied day release to take insurance exams at a well known insurance company; working for a nationalized industry I was then denied progression on to the HNC, after doing very well on the ONC in Business Studies, simply because in the interim period I had married). Again all of this contributed to women earning less than men because promotion was barred to them due to the qualifications issue. The Married Women’s stamp further penalised women further down the years. Private pension arrangements favoured male workers compared to women. Women worked and have been the primary carers for children, dependants, elderly and sick relatives, saving the government a fortune. They have found that there was and still is discrimination against women over the age of 50 today in the workplace, unless the work does not pay well and is part time. Many have to struggle with health issues, including life threatening cancers and other conditions but still have to work somehow as many of these will not have the cushion of a private pension that many men of their generation were able to take aged 60…. the list goes on. If this was really about gender inequality then these women should be receiving compensation for years, decades even, due to the blatant inequalities they have suffered. Then to add insult to injury government has not informed these women in time for them to make suitable arrangements, could they even do so, to somehow prepare for, not one, but two changes to the state pension age. Most women have more than met the required number of years but apparently overpaying is irrelevant. Some I have known have died before being able to draw their pension. Shame on the MPs who have not supported those female constituents who have been robbed of what was rightfully theirs. We should have a list of them and take action to unseat them at the next available opportunity. Equalizing pensions – rubbish!

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    • I would have liked everything you have said (as a 60s women) but it leads to ‘having an account with WordPress’. I began work in 1977 for a national bank who “expected me to leave having babies” when I asked for time off to sit the ONC exams instead of taking days from my holiday. I had learned that all those getting this and time to revise, too, were male graduates. I left – it was the only way to keep up with technology and remain employable. Early 90s’ I transferred from the arm of a national building society / plc (that year) to a subsidiary (financial services for Investment & Pension) with part of the insurance exams passed and requiring sponsorship to pass the second. (Then, you could realise promotion as a Financial Consultant if you had passed two parts; later it increased to three.) I was refused by my boss (Regional Manager) because “it is not relevant to your job). Later, I discovered that he didn’t have the qualification himself. (He was demoted later because of complaints by women feeling mis-treated in similar ways.). When a family member was dying, I asked if I could work part-time. (Then if you employed more that 15 staff, it was illegal to turn someone down from this request.) There was 9 of in the office, he managed 4 Unit Managers and they had teams of 10 or more people. He got around it on a technicality and said my job was full-time. I resigned. A year later, they were all made redundant. From there, I went to a charity part-time but they didn’t have a pension. Whatever, I was paying national insurance stamps. (NOBODY ADVISED ME ABOUT TOP-UPS.) Then, age 39 I left (pregnant) because the Company Secretary said their were no maternity arrangements. (She was married to a regional insurance manager who had just set up his own company!). When I was listening to other soon to be mum’s at a aquanatal class, I was astounded at how clued up they were at claiming benefits with much less time than me to qualify for them. I queried with Social Services why my baby was being prejudiced against. They said that I had left two weeks to early! SO my contributions counted for diddly squat. Also, my son was 6 months too early for Gordon Browns £500 to invest for new-borns. Since my child has been in school, I have worked part-time but learnt, by default, that if you leave part of the way through a year that your contributions don’t count as a full years. MANY of my peers have NO IDEA about this! WHERE IS THE INFORMATION? I am sick of ALL governments incompetence of realising the impact on women. It is not ignorance, is it arrogance. Even now, they seem to have no morale bone to ease this situation. The timing for me has meant that I am in the middle. My child has been subject to all the educaiton curriculum changes and had to remain in school a further two years. While we have battled elder parents than most. Losing one, just as my child started school and another before had finished primary years. One now have two types of Demential and has gone through all the savings her husband left her in one year of care! We now have to sell her home. My father is on the brink of this, too. To me, there is nowhere to turn.

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  36. Well done what a fantastic result, Thank you to Michael Mansfield and his team along with everyone invloved in supporting this injustice to 1950’s women.

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  37. Brilliant, how long will a judicial review take to complete? My wife was born in 1957 and took early retirement from her job at 60. Keep up the fight ladies right this injustice.

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  38. As a women born in the 1950’s I would like to say ‘thank you’ to all concerned with the fight to right this injustice.
    I personally have come across so many women in my age group struggling on a daily basis because of the circumstances they find themselves in due to not receiving their pension as expected.
    Many I know are having to do two or three jobs ( taxed accordingly) to ‘just about manage’.
    Quality of life is greatly diminished and health issues at this age can present problems with their endeavours to continue working whilst supporting older family members as well
    The Westminster elite bubble are yet again unaware of the silent hard working middle England in this case women who are monitoring this particular campaign and feel let down and disenchanted by government decisions over the last 40 plus years.
    ‘There are none so blind as those that will not see’

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  39. what about women born in the 1960’s we have to wait until 67 year of age, we will suffer the same hardship as the women born in the 1950’s it is the same inequality against females only

    also women that escaped violent husbands in police and we get pension from them have to wait until we are 60, we cant reinvest it why not , if we win that pension in law it should become ours, again the law is hell bent on inequality against women who have been in the most violent of homes because our ex husbands felt being coppers meant they could and their forces permitted it …. like being beaten all over again in many ways

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  40. If I stole £48,000 from the government I would have been sent to prison for theft. Even though I have 45 years NIC contribution but only needed 30 years to qualify. It has stolen 6 years pension from me and 6 years retirement. Absolutely disgusting. Looking forward to my refund

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  41. Generally us women born 8n the 50,s had lower wages related to what were considered femsle roled ie cleaning ,nursing etc We eete not given an opportunity to make alternstive plans I am 62 have worked full time from the age 14 ,I have paid my dues and deserve my pension at 60 so that i could either retire of lower my working hours

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  42. I had no formal warning. We have been well and truly misled. I thought I was getting my pension. Im 61. My sister and some of my friends who were born in the 50’s are no longer with us. Went to their graves in the last couplr6of years and never had a penny of their pension. My sister was 63. She was robbed of approximately 21k.
    Where is our money, we paid in. I worked 7 days a week, some weeks. 😠 Its in some fat cat’s trouser pocket. 😠

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  43. .. this is great news and hopefully the rule fir all will be overturned! Will the decision help us born in the 60’s and 70’s who were told to pay a contribution to a pension we’d get at a certain age only to be told no you won’t now? I get a little confused if it’s the fact that the government ‘changed the goalpost’ mid contract that’s under review or just women born in the 50’s as that are affected now, where’s as I’ll be affected in 4 years? If a private company took money on false pretences as the government has they would have been prosecuted! Thanks and well done to all that have fought to get this far!

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  44. Just a big thankyou to all those who are fighting for us 50s born women.
    I was born 1958.pension due 67yr.
    By the time I get there they will try and move the goalposts again.it has to stop so we can enjoy what life we have left and not have to continue working in till maybe the day we die.

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  45. Well done for keeping the pressure on!! Already done much more for us 50’s baby girls than anyone thought possible. Praying that justice will prevail and we win the fight against this totally unjust system. I am 63 now so have missed out on thousands of pounds of my entitlement already with still another 3 years to wait!!!!!

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  46. Thank you Mr Hencke for this article which shows the depth and the travesty that is being currently inflicted on myself and all the women affected by 60, did I read that right these 60, changes to pension arrangements. Buried deep in small print, how were women kept informed, not at all. Certainly not me. The DWP, subsequent Governments since ’95, Pension Companies are at last being called to account. Thank you Hon Justice Lang.

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  52. Thank you David for your valuable support.
    In 1988 I had contributed 10 years to the NHS pension scheme. After the birth of my first child I returned to work as a nurse 2 days a week to be informed that I was excluded from contributing ( inc the employer contribution ) to the NHS scheme as I was now working too few hours. I lost valuable service credit until I was able to work increased hours. This is factual and was the legal framework of the scheme. Women of course were the main group disadvantaged by these “rules”. I am sure the legal team will look at these disadvantages. The granting of the JR appears to be bringing Backto60, Waspi and other groups together, this is all for the good.

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  53. Thank you so much to everyone who is fighting on our behalf. This is hopeful news. I am fast approaching 63 and I am beginning to suffer with terrible pain in my knees, back and wrists. Working I. Education is so demanding both physically and emotionally. It’s difficult getting through each day. My Dad passed away at 69 having worked hard all of his life and my Aunty passed away at 59. I am so afraid that if I work until I’m 66 the same thing will happen to me. My husband is 7 years older than I so I really worry what quality of life and how long we will have left together. I have worked since I was 15.i think I have done more than my share just like other ladies born in the 50s. God bless you and thank you for fighting for our lives .

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  54. A victory for common sense at last but as I approach my 64th birthday I anticipate that nothing will be resolved in the courts until I reach my 66th birthday and have the chance to finally retire (working part time currently as care for grandchildren and elderly mother too). The scale of discrimination for some is horrendous and I count myself amongst some of those, with gender discrimination etc rearing its head on numerous occasions as a consequence of being a 1950s (1955) born female. At 17 I joined the Armed Forces, I married (no living together then) and fell pregnant with my daughter…predates the SDA so no recourse to compensation and had to resign from my job. As I left in 1974 I am not able to claim any pension from this service as to qualify you had to serve 22 years (this was amended in 1975 but isn’t retrospective), second opportunity for discrimination…had I not been female I would not have had to leave my job. Usual story of part time working due to husbands posting around country and need to manage family commitments. Began FT work in 1987 in the public sector…consequently contracted out of SERPS which means that my state pension will be reduced by almost £100 a month…do I have a huge public sector pension, absolutely not, was it a contributory pension, yes it was. I feel absolutely stymied at every turn, worked hard, paid lots and lots in tax and NI…still paying it…but I will still get a reduced pension…Couldn’t make it up. I will certainly be watching with interest to see how the DWP respond to this success.

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    • Guy Opperman did say it had been refused. He went on to say there was a new application that is correct. What he should have said is that there had been a new application and it had been granted for a hearing on November 30. That has been known for some time.

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  60. I was born in December 1956 l started work when l was 15 years of age, l needed to retire when l was 60 years l was informed that l would have to work till l was 66 can anyone please tell me why. I still have to work another 4 years l have paid my national insurance contributions. My friend retired at 60 years of age with a full pension she had not worked for years has a bus pass. I feel so upset that l have to work when others don’t.

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  61. Thank goodness for all involved. I hope the 50’s women win this case. An injury at work 3 months after my 60th Birthday, has left me poverty stricken on JSA/ESA.

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  62. Briilant I was born in 1957 and was never told of the changes i have to work another 5 years and have arthritis in both hips i hope and pray they can help us women born in the 1950s.

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  65. Thank you so much to all involved in – fighting for truth, justice and humanity, its great to have some good news in these troubling times

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  67. Thank you to everyone involved in helping us, I’m a dec 1954 baby and have to wait another two years getting old and worn out 🙁

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  68. I think this is great news , as for them saying they wanted it to be in line with men !! Well during work life we are not in line with men – equal pay !!!
    I am one of born in the fifties and I suffer with dark depression and anxiety – I have worked from age of fifteen with a Saturday job then full time , and still no pension

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  69. I have been affected mentally, physically and socially by this underhand raising of the pension age, I have had profound health issues negatively affected by this. I have had to use my minimal savings in place of my anticipated and planned pension contribution to my budget. I now live in a caravan with No fixed abode status while teaching as a private tutor. I am unable to get full time paid teaching jobs at the age of 64 with my health issues. It is a constant lonely struggle to try to keep above my overdraft limit as I do not appear to qualify for any assistance as I am in a caravan. I have had to cancel appointments to hospitals in Manchester since I am based in Reading and can not afford to either drive or take the train. I have a serious life threatening condition. I, like all the women concerned, have spent my life being given fewer opportunities and being paid less for the same work as men. I feel desperate and have considered the suicide way out of this awful situation I have spiralled down into due entirely to the callous cavalier way the government steamrollered the ramping up of pension age. Presumably we are the easy target, we will take it lying down. Well how proud I am of these wonderful women and supporting men who have taken the fight to the courts. Thank you, You give me hope.

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  70. Incredible progress in what was thought to be a lost cause. Some women have had to remain in work much longer than they had expected, some had to give up and accept a reduced pension for when it would become payable. I agree that the whole system was set up at much too short notice and is inequitable. The women affected have a right to be heard and to be compensated for their losses. Whilst I am one of them, being in the first group of those affected, I was still able to survive but other slightly younger friends are forced to work way beyond their expected age and in some jobs and professions this is unfair and impractical. Younger women won’t even be able to retire with time to rest as their reward. Equality with men may be on the cards but ensure fair notice for all to allow proper financial planning and perhaps longer holidays during their working lives.

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  71. What great news for all women in their 60’s robbed by the government who give themselves huge amounts of money to do this !

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  72. This is excellent news. I can add to the list of discriminations by advising that I personally have been additionally discriminated against in having my child in 1974. I am 2 years missing in National Insurance contributions as i had my boy, looked after him and suffered severe post natal depression leading to 2 weeks in hospital with 6 sessions of ECT. The regulations changed so that in 1978 women receiving child benefit could be given credits to cover unpaid NI contributions. I was not allowed any credits as my 2 missing years were before 1978. And so I am yet again discriminated against. My husband at the time abandoned the marriage when my son was 15 months old so the struggle was continuous and all he paid us was £5 per week until my son finished full time education. He never defaulted on the £5 but £5 in 1976 was a far different valuation as the years passed. Discrimination has been a way of life for so many of us 1950s ladies so it is truely excellent news that the review has been allowed. I only hope that as a group we will be successful and this discrimination against us will be rectified.

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  73. This is excellent news. I can add to the list of discriminations by advising that I personally have been additionally discriminated against in having my child in 1974. I am 2 years missing in National Insurance contributions as i had my boy, looked after him and suffered severe post natal depression leading to 2 weeks in hospital with 6 sessions of ECT. The regulations changed so that in 1978 women receiving child benefit could be given credits to cover unpaid NI contributions. I was not allowed any credits as my 2 missing years were before 1978. And so I am yet again discriminated against. My husband at the time abandoned the marriage when my son was 15 months old so the struggle was continuous and all he paid us was £5 per week until my son finished full time education. He never defaulted on the £5 but £5 in 1976 was a far different valuation as the years passed. Discrimination has been a way of life for so many of us 1950s ladies so it is truely excellent news that the review has been allowed. I only hope that as a group we will be successful and this discrimination against us will be rectified. I have just been told this is a duplicate comment and i have already said this. NO IT ISNT. NO I HAVENT. CANT I EVEN HAVE MY SAY NOW ???

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  74. A huge step forward 1950s women let’s hope we are successful in ending this gross injustice. Many thanks for all the support the 1950s women are receiving.

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  75. I have paid 48 years full National Insurance. !!!! I am very proud of you who are fighting for our rights. I have been a supporter both groups. I am a Waspie. I am not being greedy just asking for what I was promised. THANK YOU ….

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  76. I took early retirement (born 1957) age 59, then found out 6 months later, that because I worked for police and they were opted out of SERPS, I was told I needed to work another 5yrs to get a full state pension. I already have 44 yrs full national insurance contributions and they want me to work another 5 yrs, meaning 50 yrs working to get full state pension, its a joke. I left school at 15 and worked ever since, where has all the money gone I have paid in, I would be dead if I have to work another 5 yrs, that would please them as they wouldn’t have to pay me anything. I am so angry at the way we have been treated, my good friend died February, she was the same as me worked all her life, she’s not getting her pension, where has the money gone?

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  77. When you think about how much money has gone into negotiating Brexit, to no end, the amount taken from women pales into insignificance. At the root of it all in the corridors of power is the deep-rooted mysoginistic view that women of the fifties should have been good little women and secured a future through their ‘hubbies’. And now we learn that the private pensions sector are ‘uneasy’ because the neat little ‘fix’ their mates sorted out for their greed-induced pension pot black hole might not work after all. I am so proud of the backto60 movement and quite sure that this is just the beginning of a rising tide of citizens who have had enough of twenty first century serfdom.

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  79. As a women born on 1955 I give Heartfelt thanks to all for not giving up on the cause of all 1950’s women. You have given us hope that all is not lost. Thank you

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  80. I am unable to claim support as I have a small private pension and finding it very difficult to live on £440 per month and not able to claim state pension for another 3 years. If the pension was paid at 60yrs I would be able to keep my home and live a normal life , I hope this decision is successful and we get our pension soon .

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    • I agree I was born in 1960. I have already paid in enough ni to receive maximum pension. All extra ni I pay goes elsewhere. I cannot increase my pension but have to carry on working and paying more ni till I reach 67!! 🤔 Age 60 is old enough to retire. Give the young school leavers more opportunity to get a job! Give us a few years to enjoy whatever number of years we have left. No one knows how long we have on this planet. Give us chance to receive back some of what we have paid in.

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  82. A big thank you to all who has helped us 1950s women, so thrilled with the outcome, I am in ill heath and have to rely on my husbands pension hope all turns out well can’t thank you enough for getting us this far

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  84. I too am a woman in my 60s (born in 1957). I currently have paid into the scheme of over 40 years in NI contributions, but not only have I been prevented from getting my State Pension at age 60 because of the changes ( or should 8 say theft?!), but the Government website now states that I need to make further contributions to get a full State Pension at age 66.

    That is impossible because I do not have any paid employment, and unfair in the extreme. The Government trumpets that to get a full State Pension requires ‘only 35 years of conributions’! So with that in mind, does anyone at DWP very read or listen to the nonsense they currently spout? Moreover, does anyone understand true equality or even contractual rights and obligations?

    I want the pension I paid in for and understood that I would get at age 60, so I thank all of those who are fighting this dreadful and unjust stuation. Keep challenging the inequality!
    Katie

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  86. Well done.
    What I can’t understand is why the BBC is giving this cause virtually no coverage. Most women of our age had low paid jobs and little chance of gaining the same wage as our partners. We still see women of today fighting for their equal pay.

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  87. Brilliant it’s so bad this I’m very upset as I live in Spain and was really relying on my pension it’s 6 years they have tool from me

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  88. I am a 50s woman robbed of my state pension and am so proud of all the #backto60 women, we have fought a hard battle and we will not back down we want what is rightfully ours and we won’t settle for anything less. If as we have been told this robbery of our SP is in the name of Equality why not bring men’s retirement age down to 60? It’s because it’s not in the name of Equality and it never was!!

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  92. My state pension age has been increased three times to 66 (born 59). If we ALL registered for jobseekers allowance for six months in order to get the National Insurance credit (even if we were not allowed to claim any money) the job centres & DWP would be overwhelmed. We might be able to sign on for 6 months every year to get the credit which would seriously increase unemployment figures etc etc.

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  93. I need to be involved as I am one of the millions of women born in the 50 s and had to suffer financial stress anxiety and disappointment working a lifetime still not able to have my well earned state pension til 6 months after being 65

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  95. This is brilliant news. I was born in 1954 and worked since I was 16. My retirement at 60 was raised to 65years and 6 months. At 49 I had heart surgery and a stroke. I had to go back to work after 2 years. I took early retirement at 57 as I was getting very tired. My husband has been expected to keep me ever since. My family suffers with a congenital heart condition and I didn’t want to die before I could enjoy my retirement.

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  99. Thank you so much. Your constant battle to win justice for the 50’s female babies is appreciated more than you will ever know. I was born in August 1954 so you can imagine my disapointment of adding on so many years with no notice. This was greatly unfair and has affected too many lives. With out you we would hear nothing.

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  100. Thank you for your continuing round-up of events and useful comments putting it into the bigger picture David. This decision by Justice Lang is the only decent move made by anyone with any power to unravel the half-baked mess that the Tories began in 1995. It also lends a lie to all those currently in power who have stated and continue to dogmatically pretend their pensions review had anything to do with equality. It didn’t. It was all about stealing any savings from wherever they thought they could get away with it and dressing it up as equality. If equality was their serious aim, where is any attempt to rectify gender pay gap, gender pension gap and payments of State benefits at a shambles of rates – invariably lower for women? Justice has been served by Justice Lang – a woman in the midst of the argument on the same age grounds as her plaintiffs. At last – a woman dealing with her own age and gender properly and justly. Are you listening Mrs May??

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  101. Well it’s a great start buts let’s take it all the way and wiin our plight 1950s women . We deserve to get what is owed, another misdemeanour by Westminster and Whitehall

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  102. I can’t tell you the anguish I have gone through these last 5 years – having to carry on working in a stressful job because I could not afford to stop at 60- I had no time to adjust or save. People just older than me were able to retire years before me. As a single person this has put such a strain on me.

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  104. well we have been deadly ripped off, so if all the banks, etc who have ripped people off have had to repay people what has been improperly taken from them, and are having to pay back, with interest too, then that it what our government can do too.

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  105. Don’t forget the knock on effect of these pension changes on other entitlements causing even greater discrimination and financial hardship. Where I live in West Lancashire women are no longer entitled to free train and bus passes as WLBC have linked entitlement to state pension age !

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    • The change in free bus passes applies to all of the UK, not just your council.
      Are you aware that Ireland, Wales, Scotland & London give free travel from the age of 60?
      It is only ENGLAND who only give travel benefits when you receive your pension. How unfair!!!

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  106. When the pension rules changed I was undergoing a year of cancer treatment; at the same time they stopped my State disability benefit. The chemo caused permanent heart damage which prevented me returning to work so I had no income at all and could not save more into a private pension. Stuck in a cleft stick for 9 years I had to live off my retirement savings until I was old enough to get my state pension this month, at age 65. I did have sickness insurance, but it stopped at the old pension age of 60. It was a financially crippling experience (we had to sell our family home to release equity) – fortunately I had enough NI in the bank to get a full pension when the time came. I hope there will be some kind of retrospective compensation.

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  107. This is brilliant news and hopefully we will win this one . After all this is something we all paid into as well as our employers . In my eyes it was a contract between us and the government and they have breached that contract. It was like a savings that we should have been able to draw out when we were 60 not wait until we are 66 . It’s making life so hard for lots of women and it’s just not right

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  108. I am so grateful for alll the hard work you and others have gone to to finally get our position looked at. I have a question in that I started work in a June 1972. I was born in 1955 do I have to continue to contribute until I retire which I understand is now in 2021. I have worked 46 years and have contributed for 46 years!!
    Thank you
    Janet Adams .

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  110. I think this is shocking!! That they didn’t warn us earlier that this was going to happen, I was born in 1957 & have to wait until I’m 66 until I get state pension. I believe that I have been done out of around £30,000. Times

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  111. The powers that be thought that we women would just take this lying down . Well we have shown them we are strong and we will fight for our rights. Well done to all concerned for the effort that has gone into this campaign

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  112. I would like to bring to the attention of those against giving us women our pension that most of us are on the menopause and are trying to work whilst surviving on 2hrs a night sleep so for all the men against us getting our pension it’s sexism

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  113. As a Woman with Chronic Comodibitites whose State Pension has been deferred Twice …… I can now sleep again at night!
    A huge thanks to The Back to 60 Campigners and Crowdfunders & David Hencke!

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  114. Hi I live in Australia and I am 62 , I worked full
    Time in the Uk from 1972 until 2004 please can you advise me
    When I might receive a Uk pension thanks

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    • Hi good question, I would think I am afraid in four years time as the pension age rises to 66 in 2020. As you live in Australia it won’t be uprated but frozen at the rate they pay you then.

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  116. The core of this awful situation is that in order to be treated equal in retirement women should have had the opportunity to prepare for retirement equally. Women born in the ’50d did NOT have that opportunity. Many jobs were not even open to women to apply for and many were declined access to a pension scheme for various reasons beyond their control. It is not saving money as most women have paid all that they were allowed to, into the system and were not informed in time that they needed to make other arrangements if they wanted to retire at 60 rather than the 66 or so. Money has been paid in for that purpose so it is only just that it is paid out to women fairly.

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  117. Does this mean we “50’s “may get back the 5 or 6 years monies we had to work after reaching 60 .
    I officially retire March 2019 and I still have to pay to go to work . It would be nice to hear your views.
    Thankyou

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  120. This is a good victory but leads to an even bigger question. There is a reason why women were allowed to retire at 60. Women tend to enter “caring” professions which are extremely physical and tirering then, as surveys and reports show they tend to carry responsibility for the majority of home “caring” as well as the childbearing etc. In effect working women are undertaking more than 1 job. Is it unfair then to allow them to retire at least from “paid” work at 60 especially those undertaking physical jobs when their bodies have simply had enough.

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  121. I have just been reading comments from other people regarding the amount of years required to enable a person to claim state pension. I am confused. If women have been working since leaving school at (for example) 18 and carried on working through having and bringing up children (not to mention those who don’t have children) surely they will have paid “in” for 30+ years by the time they are 60. This being the case, any further monies they “pay in” by working past those 30 years is theirs and by refusing to pay out through the pension system, the government and any subsequent governments are guilty of theft.

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  123. 2 weeks after my 60th birthday I broke my back in 3 places at work. Turns out I have osteoporosis and arthritis, (to add to the diabetes and cataracts forming…)
    If I had retired at 60, this would not have happened. So I lost my job, (they made me redundant) and for 4 months I have been recovering on Universal Credit. U/C is worked out very unfairly. I have had a total of £216 from them since 13th August. My next payment is 29th DEC. My rent alone is over £600 per month. Can anyone do the maths?
    Yes, in the few months since I have NOT been able to retire, my health has deteriorated immensely, and my finances are shot. I am now in debt to everyone….several thousands of pounds. ALL BECAUSE I COULD NOT RETIRE AT 60.
    And once recovered I have to find a new job. Who wants to take on a lady nearing retirement in failing health?

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  125. Music to my ears reading this, the famous FC has been so cruel. I’ve been called, Stupid, lazy, money grabbing however the patronising comments have been the worst. Nursing from the age of 16 now 63 has taken its toll on physical & mental health. All I want is the SP I was promised at the age of 60. DWP informed me 3 years before my 60 th

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  126. Yes lets have Justice for the 2,8 million woman who have, lets face it money and time of life stolen from them, and also there Husbands, Partners, and The rest of there families lives being changed .A travesty of justice, and if a change of government occurs, this has to be still be addressed.

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  127. Not only am i looking for a result on this topic.
    I was widowed nearly 7 years ago. Somewhere along the line they abolished widows pension. I always say the mafia stole my husband’s money. That money he paid was for his retirement or to be passed to me as a widow. The same applies if it had been the other way round and the woman paid her contributions. It’s what my husband was led to believe when he starting paying his contributions back in 1973.

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  128. I was made to work on other 5 years and 5 months was so looking forward to retirement have not got excellent health and work 34hrs a work and it’s not sitting on my backside it’s quite hard work not like the government people sitting down all day and the have long hols as well

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  129. When I started work my ‘contract’ with the government was that I would receive my pension at age 60. They broke that contract!

    Thank you to everyone fighting for all 50’s women. A great victory so far.

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    • I am 66 on the 31st January how do I find out when I will get my pension? Someone told me it’s 6 months after your birthday is this Right? Be nice to retire in the summer.

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      • You must go on the Gov.uk website ASAP and register to view you pension – you are a few months older than me and I should get my pension at Christmas so you should get yours before that late summer/early autumn maybe??

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  131. Good for all concerned
    Government think they can move the goalpost whenever they like.
    We as humans,voters and tax payer
    Should have a say before anything is changed

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  133. I am now 64 years old couldn’t claim my pension as the age was put up to 66 and I have not been able to get a job since 2015 as soon as you state your age they don’t want to employ a 60 year old so since then I have really struggled to meet ends my husband works long hours to cover our bills but I cannot even claim as he works more than 16 hours I find this very degrading and shameful as I have worked all my life and there’s not a thing I can do about it shame on the government for doing this to woman of a certain age

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  134. Hope they get Justice, what worries me is the Con Conservatives will just drag on with Brexit, and make time run out with WASPI, AND WHEN THEY GO OR GET CHANGE of GOVERNMENT, they will just put it into Labours hands,so they can wash there hands of it, and Labour will look bad and will take this mess on.

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  136. I personally was given three dates of my retirement they were 62, then 64 but I’m now working till I’m 66 I feel very let down by the powered that be I also lost the opportunity to defer my pension if I wanted to carry on. Now I have been diagnosed with life changing problems and I feel I should be retired already just like anyone in position.

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  140. The Discrimination and Hatred of this Conservatives Goverment goes on,shame to the faceless MPs that have allowed this to happen, and to listen to the Queens speak yesterday, shows how out of touch and none caring this Country has become.Steal from the poor and give to the rich.If any woman ,or there partner ,or children over voting age ever vote Conservative again they deserve all they DON’T get.

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  143. This has had a massive impact on many women’s lives born in the 1950’s. We don’t want something for nothing we just want fairness. Why should we have taken the brunt of the pension reforms. Were not stupid we know changes happen but changes should demonstrate fairness and equality. This change isolated a group of people and impacted on their daily life and choices in their life. No group of people should have been impacted on in the way the DWP pushed through their changes.
    DWP have caused misery and anger for many 1950’s women they should be made accountable. Thank you to all involved in getting this to a review and I’m sure we all await and hope for a satisfactory conclusion. Dee

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  145. Like a lot of ladies i had no choice but to continue working until 61.5 years though not in good health,it was a struggle being made to wait for my pension..
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  146. I am going to ask about this eighteen months addition after the first letter. I was sent a letter that told me I would be 62 when I got my pension and I phoned up and was assured that I had enough contributions. Then I got a letter saying I would be 64 and then another saying I would be 65 and a half. Now I read somewhere that no woman would have to wait longer than eighteen months from the first letter. I am therefore owed at least two years money already. Can David Hencke check this for me?

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  147. It is with great delight to read this having had no notification of these rises, in poor health having my pension would make a massive difference to my life

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  149. I was born Nov 1951 but never got my State Pension until July 2012 when I was nearly 62 does this ruling have any affect on me

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  151. I’m not a 50s woman, but thoroughly appreciate their fight for all women…this will eventually affect myself and my daughter, so THANK YOU to them for their courage and determination!!

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  152. Fantastic news . They need to change the ruling . It was so unfair . I have a friend and she it 9 months older than i . She got her pension last year or the year before and i dont get mine till im 66 . Where is the justice xx

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  153. As a fifties women caught up in this mess and suffering financially as a result I am delighted with the progress and hopeful that now the voice of all affected will be heard and monies lost through no fault of our own will be returned. We should all stand up for justice and thank you to those who are doing that

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  154. I will be 62yrs old in March. I have always worked since leaving school at 15. I have paid into the system continuously. I would love to help.out with Grandchildren duties as my Son & Daughter in law work full time to afford a mortgage. I’m still working, as my husband & I used our savings to put them on the property market, as they could not afford to rent. Is any of this right?

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  155. Absolutely brilliant news. A step forward but I despair the establishment will not allow it to go any further. So many women my age who have worked for over 45 years thinking they would be retiring at 60 have made no financial provision and or not fit to work. A sad state of affairs and a sorry succession of poor governments

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  156. The best news I’ve heard in four years. I am 64 years of age, unwell after surgery and being sent for medical after 6 weeks despite having paid N I contributions for 48 years

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  158. I am 64 am working full time .its not easy at my age but I need my pension to live so I will be 66 when I retire . It’s not right at all . I get very tired ,can’t really enjoy life .

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  159. Justice has to be done for 50s Women we worked straight from leaving School at 16 paying into Ni and Tax. We didnt have the choices we had to go out and start earning.
    But In recent years. Girls can now go to college or Uni at 19 and don’t start working till their early to mid 20s. When they eventually start a career then start making contributions to NI and Tax. I will have worked from 16 – 66 = 50 years. A women today will probably on average start a job 25 – 70 = 45 years so why have 5 years being added to the 50s women who also earned salaries less than men at that time and we had worse career options compared to then and now. We are owed financially and should be compensated not only for the injustice then, but also from the 1970s until the date By Law the equality pay act was introduced to try and make it an even playing field on earnings. WOMEN OF THE 50s SHOULD NOT SUFFER ANY MORE. WE WANT WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SHORT CHANGED + COMPENSATION. WHY ARE WE STILL WAITING THERE ALREADY IS A LAW AGAINST INEQUALITY IN EARNINGS.

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    • I’m a 60s woman, who started work at 16 . I have been paid less than men all my working life. When I started work my retirement was 60yr old . I cant retire until 67. So far I’ll have worked 51 yrs before I get my pension.
      When do I get my back to 60?!

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  162. I have worked since I was 13 and should have retired 18 months ago at 60. Instead I am having to work with I’ll health until I am 66. This is great news and a step in the right direction.

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  164. A massive thank you to everyone who are fighting to get our pension age put back to 60, I have c o p d and now unable to work ii have another 3years to get my pension x

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  166. If a private company miss managed and or miss appropriates funds the Pension Regulator steps in. Why is no one being held to account.

    Thank you for all of your hard work there are a lot of people out there really appreciative of what you are trying to do.

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  167. I am so delighted to have a glimmer of hope to get the pension that I worked so hard for. I am retired on ill health and at age 63 have three years before I can get my state pension and am struggling to make ends meet as under the present law I cannot get any financial support

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  169. Thankyou so much for all your hard work its one step up. I was born in 1957 and cut my working week to three days because of my health there a lot worse than me thankyou it gives me some hope.x

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  170. Born Dec 1954 by the time I am 66 the government will have kept £43.000 this is robbery and should never have come to this. Do they think the inland revenue would of allowed us to Rob them of this much money. I for one think not. I was never Informed of the changes, I am disabled so I cannot do an aprentashjp as was proposed to us, this for me is ludicrous. There are not enough jobs for the younger generation so how are they going to find jobs for the over 60 people. If we had been told we could and would of made arrangements for this later pension. But now we depend on chartiy shops food banks and help off our family whenever possibilities. I see the man who proposed this idea retired at 61 and on a generous amount I hope he is hanging his head in shame

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  171. It should stay at 60 .Totally disagree with pension at 65 for anyone.If someone wants to carry on after 60 fare enough .But it should go back to 60 .I was born in1960.And in to ill to work .Instead of getting my pension at 60.l have to go through the hell the DWP are putting ill and disabiled people through.Its a evil system which is destroying peoples lifes so instead of looking forward to retirement ive 5yrs off misery to battle to get the help i should be intitle to .Its a disgrace.Evil Tory government destroying old and vunerable people .x

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  172. Fantastic news, I would have retired this year as I will be 60 yrs old, I have worked since I was 16yrs old even when I had 4 children.
    Paid contributions are all up to date.
    I have health condition and still have to continue working.
    The goverment never ever told us about the increase in retirement age, just went ahead and did it.goodluck

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  173. Many thanks to all the strong, brave women and their advisors for taking the time and initiative to fight for the cause of 50s women. Best wishes and thanks again

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  174. I am now 62, I have worked since i was 15 years old, i am a beautician, i have cut back on my work as it is now too much for me, someone younger should be doing my job now, I don’t have the same energy anymore, you ladies have done a wonderful job for us all, good luck to you all, and a great new year
    Loraine

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  176. I have to work until I’m 66 to draw my state pension. I am 62 and not in good health. I have already had one operation for spondylolithesis and need a fusion operation soon. I work full time travelling to central London. The journey and working is taking it’s toll on me. The DWP do not seem to take into consideration not all women are fit and healthy to carry on working. They see us as a number only and not as a person , also how much money can they save from not paying us our pension…..which we have paid into. The pension is not a benefit.

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  178. Well done hopefully from 66 it will be reduced down, has like alot of women work’t all my life. Till I was taken ill now can’t work due to Lung disease and my husband past away 55years age 24years in forces. I don’t get much to live on. But would help if I got my pension at 60 .don’t see why I should have to wait, possibility I might not make it, be nice to get that pension now

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    • Thank you
      I am 61 and work full time and I am wornout I was born in 1957 , don’t know how much longer I can work.38hr week .

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  179. I too am a 50’s woman and was astounded when I heard that I’d have to work longer and as I was fairly fit at the time thought “ Oh ! well just get your head down and work “ and for 3 years did just that …. but due to the Nursing profession and my employers not listening when I told them I was stressed I left just before I was 62 ( I was doing 4 days work in 2 days but in the end was often working
    4-5 days a week Let’s hope we have a positive outcome – I’m amazed and pleased to see that Backto60 have our back …….

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  180. I am 61 and work 38hrs a week , I was born 1957. At the moment I am only looking forward to my 66th year so I can stop working and that’s my only goal ! This is so wrong .
    Thank you

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  181. I have worked all my life. I’m 60 this year and would dearly have hoped to go part time after suffering grade 3 breast cancer with spread to lymph nodes in 2010. I underwent a mastectomy, 6 months of chemo, a whole year on a Herceptin drip. In 2013 I had a breast reconstruction, 3 further corrective surgeries and have only just found I have contracted BIA ALCL. This is a cancer caused by the implants in reconstruction. It is a cancer of the immune system, a Lymphoma cancer. I underwent 7 weeks of tests, including having bone marrow taken, this was to check if the cancer had spread through my body. I’m left with a weak arm and a lot of body pain. I can’t do a lot of the things I used to. I applied for a working PIP payment to help me with extra costs this is causing and the DWP refused my claim. So good luck with lowering our pension age. Hell will freeze over first. I’ve been in the newspapers about my illness, struggle to work everyday and can’t get any help. Country is disgusting.

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  182. Well done to BackTo60 si pleased someone had brought this to the attention of the counrty. Gravely unfair each time i checked as a moved tiwards my 60th birthday the date when i could retire had moved further away. My husband and i were 60 and 65 within 9.months of each other. But he is now 70 and he still has nearly two years to wait for me to retire. That and the fact i have been paying national insurance since i was 14 means i have 52 years of contributions when i only needed 30 surely the predicament we all find ourselves in is wrong in so many ways. Goid luck to you. I wait to here your news!!

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  183. Just hope the fight will continue for us ladies born in the 60’s.
    I am 54 ,work full time , have various heaLth issues , look after an elderly relative and at present have another 13 yrs go.
    The government might as well sign up a contact with funeral directors to give them a list of women ready to retire at that age as we will be popping out clogs soon after if not before !!!

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    • I was born 1961 and the thought of working till I’m 67 is very daunting. I have worked since I was 16 leaving to have a family and then doing lower paid jobs to keep going.
      So let’s hope they bring it down for all women.

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  184. That goodness someone is finally listening to our injustice. We want our pension that we’ve payed in. I’ve worked from leaving school at 15 and and still working at 63. Please let us retire while we’ve still got breath in our body.x

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  185. That goodness someone is finally listening to our injustice. We want our pension that we’ve payed in. I’ve worked from leaving school at 15 and still working at 63. Please let us retire while we’ve still got breath in our body.x

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  186. My brother in law wasb65 last week. He gets his state pension in March this year. I’m 65 in September and havevto wait until September 2020 for my state pension. This is NOT equality.
    Thank you to everyone that is involved in the fight to get what is rightly ours.

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  189. Well done Ladies!!! We have worked hard all our lives knowing we would get the state pension at 60 and just before we retire we are told we would have to wait another 5.5 years, its a disgrace. Good luck for the future.

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  190. At last…some recognition. I, like many other women born in the 50’s will not receive my pension until I am 67. This is outrageous. I started work at 15 years old and worked all my life. At 62 I now find I am having to take on any work I can find at my age to make ends meet. No one wants to employ me at this age when there are so many younger women available for work. I have considered selling my property which is now mortgage free just to enable me to survive for another 5 years until I receive my state pension.

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  191. Surley 3.8 million women who have to work because we cant have our pension gave their jobs to the younger generation the government would save money on benefits.???

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  192. I am a 61 year old female working for the Scottish Ambulance Service on Accident and Emegency ,I have worked with the S.A.S since 1992.I am exhausted 12 hour unsocial able shifts … I should be retired the DWP put an end to that …..

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  193. Thank you David Hencke and to Catherine Rayner and Michael Mansfield for this historic victory and championing the cause for a group that have been so unfairly and illegally treated. I o ce heard Michael Mansfield speak when I was a young student at Oxford, such an incisive and eloquent person! So privileged to have him fight for us. I have 38 years full entitlement to State pension, have worked longer than that, employed people, raised kids and my Local Government pension paid out at 60. Without warning, and no opportunity to consult an actuary to put in place any kind of plan to top up my pension, I am now forced to work hard for another 6 years to make a living. It is now being shown for what it is, disenfranchising, stealing and discriminating unjustly against a group the government thought would not fight back. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and many others.

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  194. Speaking from a care workers point of view not only have given birth 3 times I have also cared for older people for the past 35 years plus which has had a massive impact on my body as I was before the Manual handling policy was introduced as part of health and safety act I was expected to manoeuvre and lift people who were excessively overweight on my own. I can honestly say my body is knackered and I truly believe if I have to work until I’m 67 as it stands at the moment I will be going into work on a Zimmer frame.

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  195. Thank goodness for people like David hence and his team , most of us women born in the 50s have worked since the age of fifteen we have paid into the system for all those years and deserve to get our pensions at the age of sixty like we should have done in the first place

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  196. This is a fantastic result, the hard work and dedication by all involved to the 50’s women have given hope, and knowledge to these women who would have remained ignorant of the greed of the governments pension changes that have been bestowed upon them, not upon the enforcers I may had, the enforcers pension is one they will florish upon and enjoy in their old age, it’s often the vulnerable, their ignorance taken advantage of, has is often the case. I would like to say, ‘thank you’.

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  197. I am 62 years old I have worked from being 15 unforgently I lost my husband 6 years ago. I had no option but to give up work to look after him. He never received a pension. I feel that I have been cheated out of the pension I should have had at 60 the government have changed the goal post so many times that now I will not be entitled to a state pension till I’m 66 and 7months surely this could have been done more fairly for women my age

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  198. As above Iv worked In the care sector for 30 years and have had to do moving and handling on individuals without any lifting appliances in the early years, I’m coming up to 60 shortly and wondering how can i keep this up until I’m 66 I’m in constant pain with my back etc and would like to thank you very much for fighting this case.

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  199. Happy to hear the news. Iam sixty four in April and iam finding it hard now working full time. We should be able to retire at sixty or reduce the hours we work knowing we have a state pension to fall back on. I read Italy has reduced the age for claming state pension. As for the Government saying it was to save money how low can they get. 😬😬😬😬

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  200. Excellent news. I’m 62 in February was never notified of any changes. Cannot work due to ill health hopefully things will get sorted.

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  202. Fantastic news thanks for all your hard work……Ive worked full time since I was 14yrs old paid full NI & TAX and still working Am 61years old and finding it really hard
    Let’s hope something is done real soon

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  203. So excited to hear the news I am 63 and have been working since I was 16 paid all my contributions my heartfelt thanks to everyone involved fighting this case

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  204. I am so glad to hear this news, it’s brilliant! I will be 63 this year, I am a 3rd time stage 4 breast cancer patient & I have Rheumatoid Arthritis as well, I can’t wait to retire, it has been my biggest moan, not being able to retire, after all I have done a pension forecast & have paid everything, so why can’t I retire! Here’s hoping!

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  205. Excellent news for the 50s ladies! The whole process has been badly handled by governments and a lot of women have suffered due to bad decisions.

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    • Hi David, With all this activity going on from the “injured parties” what is the next move or action to be taken moving forward Kind regards Julian Partner of an “injured party” !

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      • I really appreciate all the people who are fighting our corner
        ladies families are suffering grand child care exetra
        Since leaving school I have worked even when I had my children I did part time as I am age 60 this year myself still working have a daughter with autism look after my mother with dementia also help out my grandchild it seems that we need to be made from elastic as I am all over the place !!!!!
        In my opinion families are suffering in a lot of ways since this was put into force
        I am one who would love to see it reversed!!!!
        Many thanks
        again to all involved x

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  207. This is fantastic news for all women I did finish at 60 but couldn’t get my state pension till 63 I felt beholden to my husband as I’d always paid my way and I’m one of the lucky ones.

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  208. Thanks for this article. My wife is one of those born in the 50s and we live in Australia affected by the double injustice of the pension rules having been persuaded by DWP to buy in added years to get the full pension and be told AFTERWARDS that the pension would NOT be index linked (and taxed as foreign income by Australia). Hopefully this review may see the cost of living increase restored for those living in the Dominions.

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  210. I am a 50 s woman. I took early retirement from the NHS for health reasons. I suggest on a daily basis to make ends meet. I claim no benefits ,to be able to access my state pension (I am 63 now)would take so much pressure off for me.Good luck with the persist for 50s women,for me it would be a life changer. May be able to take a holiday.!

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  211. Fantastic news for all women. I do believe men and women retirement age needs to be reduced. I have worked since I was 13 years old, full time since 16 years old, always paid my contributions believing I would retire at 60. Got to work till I am 67 now, it is a disgrace that the government can just “make this change”. Some of my colleagues, who should have already retired, look exhausted and tired because working full time is too much for them. Work has become a very much more stressful place to work than previously. Government introduce this scheme to save money – don’t have to pay out pensions until later years and women will get worn out and probably won’t be mentally or physically fit enough to enjoy their pension years. Disgrace.

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  212. Hope we win this case and get reimbursed .
    When you’ve always been told you will retire at 60 and get that in your mind set and then have the rug and financial loss pulled from under you it takes some getting used to .
    I turned 60 this year and although the mind is willing the body is getting ready for winding down ., Fair enough if you feel you want to carry on working but the choice was snatched away from us .
    I’m a carer and it’s quite a physical job , which I now have to continue till the age of 66 .
    I just hope I’m able to continue doing the job to the best of my ability .

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  213. I was born in 53 and l had my State Pension date moved twice was 64 and 10months when l did finally receive it and had to work up to that date had 44yrs of Nl contributions Thankyou ladies for all your support and let’s keep it up.

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  214. Excellent news. I have worked all my life paid my tax and ni since I was 16.Never claimed anything from the government however I have just turned 60 and really need to retire now due to health so that I can enjoy retirement.
    Men and women really need to have the choice as to what age they retire . I strongly feel retirement age should be 60 for men and women so that they have some time to enjoy retirement.
    I sincerely hope that back to 60 and WASPI women get the changes for us all.

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  215. Not only am I not getting my state pension they are taking my private pension off my universal credit and leaving me with nothing,I’m just so upset

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  216. Well done to you . I had to retire early due to ill health . The changes from the dwp mean not only that i get no welfare but not havubg my pension at 60 has left me wanting ! When people pay insurance the contract is sealed .
    Pension was paid ! It is not a benifit . We paid into it and the goal post should not have been moved . This would be bullying under any other conditions !

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  217. I was 62.5 when I received my state pension retired at 63. I had geared my life to retiring at 60. As I got my pension in 2015 Ialso missed out on the increased rate so double whammy. Good luck with continuing to try and get us ladies what we were entitled to. Thank you for your hard work so far.

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  218. This is very good news and I am a little hopeful at last. It is so unfair to have worked for so long, expecting to retire at 60 and finding out way too late that I must carry on to 66. If this had been handled properly I might have been able to take mitigating action. I can’t work full time due to ill health so my pension will be badly affected when I get it.

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  221. I have like most worked all my life, I am full of arthritis and still working in the care sector I feel robbed and let down by government well done for those fighting this for us women

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  222. I am 65 10th March 2019…yet I don’t get my pension until September 2019…
    I missed out retiring by 9 weeks…so bloody annoying and unfair…
    I have the worry of assessments until my retirement…
    You rock ladies…

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    • I’m in the same position as you 65 in May. I decided in my late 50s to semi retire and gave my notice in and accepted a part time position thinking I would get my pension at 62. They changed the date again during this period and now getting a couple of months after you. I would have stayed full time for another three years if I’d known. Devistating and life changing when you’ve geared yourself up and worked out you’re finances. I hope we get some sort of redress but I won’t hold my breath.

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  223. I fail to see how it saves the government money surely a young person with children needing the job I have to stay longer in is having to claim more than the average pension

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  225. Well done to all involved, Ive been working since I was 13 and full time from age 16 and ive another 7 years to go. Lets hope they dont take too long . Thank you.

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  227. Well done to you all I was born in 1958 and have worked and paid tax all my life .Now at 61 this year am taking “early retirement “At a great loss financially because our retirement age was altered without our knowledge.I feel very strothat we should be able to retire at planned age of 60

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  228. Too damned right we yook lower wages while male partners got the tax sllowance for enough years The conservatives could lise a lot of votes here Do the right thing The politicians rake it in with their pensions I worked from agec15 full time ,am 62 with still 4 years til i can retire The pokiticians were in uni then being subsidised bt the likes of me

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  229. This is wonderful. I have two friends. We were all born in 1953.
    One friend born March 1953 got her state pension March 2016. My other friend birmingham July 1953 got her pension July 2017. I was born November 1953 and have only just got my pension November 2018.
    All born same year but it has taken three years for us to get our entitlement. We all worked the whole of our lives and paid full benefits so we’re entitled to the maximunion.
    It is so unfair

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    • If only… I was born 11 months after you and have to wait till October 2020 at the earliest.. if I didn’t laugh…I’d cry… Will keep up the good fight!!!!!!

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  230. Well done a bit of good news, keep the pressure on, government ripping off the ordenary hard working women the right to a pension yet protecting there golden hand shake pensions, pay up government like you made the banks do for ripping us off with PPI,

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  232. Well done to you all, I’m a 50s women living in Spain will be 60 this year I’ve had numerous surgeries two on my spine I am unable to work can’t get any financial help either here in Spain or UK whom say because I have not paid in to the system for over 5 yrs (forget all the years I have paid) I’m not entitled so to get my state pension before I’m 65 would be so helpful not having to rely on my partner

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  233. I’m a 50s woman and had to leave my job as a Carer 4 years ago due to ill health I will be 65 in May and have to wait another year for my pension I rely on my husband financially as I have nothing coming in for me which I find degrading as I have always earned my own money

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  234. Worked from 15 never out of work paid dues expecting state pension at 60 government changed the goal posts late in the game so still not getting pension at 64 ROBBED!!!!! G Roberts

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  236. I am at a loss to understand why some local authority pensions are still payable to women at age 60, cannot be deferred until 65 or they will be lost and to add insult to injury if still working which of course we are because now we are not yet entitled to our old age pension, then we must pay tax on the local authority pension. #doublewhammy #notright

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  239. Fantastic, why should we wait until we’re 66. Started work at 16 paid all my taxes and NI and would love to enjoy life now. All those lazy can work won’t work folks, should not receive pensions at all and that will save money for the government.

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  241. Well done to all involved, it is so hard and so unfair to move the goalpost for people born in the 50s when they have been planning all their working life to reach pension age. So many people are struggling. I’ve been working from the age of 13 on sat am and 14yrs full time.

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  243. Well done everyone’s for all your hard work brilliant news I’m 63 still have 3more years left before I get my state pension this is so unfair let hope something is done soon keep. up the good work every one who is involved

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  244. Well done. So many women of my generation are adversely affected by the changes and the lack of information and advice as to the future impacts.
    So as the generation that didn’t have equal pay or employment opportunities or a guaranteed return to work after pregnancy or adequate maternity pay provisions we have been badly let down by successive government. I was prepared for a rise to 62yrs and find the loss of income even more galling after working for more than 46 years and paying into the National Insurance system only to be told I have to wait another four years. And don’t get me started on the “ we are are all living longer” justification. Longevity increases have stalled and I suspect when the wartime generation are passed we will find that longevity will start to fall as the impact of working women since the 1970s starts to take effect

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  245. Knew nothing about the pension age being raised until a few years ago when it is too late to do anything about and had a sick husband who then died to find out that the widow pension had also ceased the government should stop immigration and then they would have the money that we r entitled too

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  246. Well done to all the ladies and their supporters that have worked tirelessly to win the opportunity for a judicial review
    Its well deserved and fair that this should be heard in the public domain as like many women I too have worked since the age of 15 paid into the system and will not receive my state pension until the age of 66

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  247. This news makes me feel emotional I have worked as a nurse in the NHS for fourty years it’s a very physical fast moving environment. I have nurses bad back as we had to lift manually as we were taught lifts that are banned today. Osteoarthritis now and I need to continue until my state pension starts.Thsnkyou to the people fighting this case.

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  248. Thank you for all uour hard work and I am very grateful that you have brought this case.
    I am 64 years old, have RA and work full time.
    I have worked since I was 17 years old, paid tax and NI and think this situation is unfair.

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  249. Well done everone please keep up with your hard work I am 63 and working 2 jobs I have worked since I was 15 and can’t get my pension till I am 66 and I have a heart problem . Good luck to you all from someone who hopes you can get us all enjoying our retirement the way we should be……..

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  251. I was born in 1961, had to retire at 55 due to ill health, brain tumour. I am in exactly the same boat. I can’t get state pension until I’m 67. The study should be extended to the mid-sixties! Hilary Hedison

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  253. I have paid national insurance since I was 18 and work ever since.in the NHS. I was born August 55. My state pension is age 66 and I am still paying ni. I am not entitled to a full pension as unknown to me NHS was contracted out and I have been paying a reduced ni payment. So double wammy wanting extra 6 years and a reduced pension after working & paying ni for 48 years.

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  254. Well done to all the people fighting for the judicial review. When my wife and I married we looked to the future and the fact that due to the difference in age we could both retire together and enjoy later life. Thanks the the government my wife has been forced to carry on working. This may not seem a hardship to a lot of people but after 42 years of marriage we where hoping for some quality time together.
    In the 70s the government urged people to plan for the future.
    I for one hope the the judicial review overturns the original decision I would be happy for the pension my wife has paid into all her working life to be reinstated.
    I would forgo any compensation just to have my wife where she should be at 62.
    Once again we’ll done to all the people involved.

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  255. Well done and thank you for all your hard work. I was born in 1956, worked since 16 years old and paid into the system believing I would retire with a pension at 60. I’m now 62 and have another 4 years to work to live and pay my bills, (never ‘qualified’ for benefits), before I receive my state pension.

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  256. Brilliant new 👏👏Thank You Very Much to all those involved. I am 65 this August and after giving my job up 7yrs ago to look after my Mum when my Dad passed away I am now struggling to get a job. I don’t claim any benefits as my husband is still working at 666 so at least we have his wage. Thanks again.

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  257. I like many others have worked all my life and been short changed with the pension age being unlawfully moved!. I had to take retirement from the NHS due to ill health at the age of 61 when I had expected to be able to work till I was at least 65 and had a five year plan to pay off mortgage and other financial commitments by that age. I have found myself having to consider everything I spend due to having had to meet those financial matters but having my state pension would have made a huge difference!. None of us can predict good or bad health- I think the government will save huge amounts of money at the expense of our good health. A lot of women may well be dead before they change their decision and pay us back for our loss. I will have to wait till I am 66 but have no idea how my health will be by then due to the rare illness I have. I definitely feel strongly that we have been short changed and as a result suffer high levels of stress wondering if we can make it to that magical age that the government plucked out of thin air and made a catastrophic one sided decision on . I for one will be very glad to hear that the government will have to revert back and pay out to all of us who have been affected!..

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  258. I hope we all get our good results very soon. I was so looking forward to being 60 to receive my pension and also my freedom pass, people in London get a pass by paying £10 even though I live in kent.

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  259. Does this ruling mean that those ladies who were affected by the number of years their retirement age was increased will receive back payment of the years involved?

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  260. Well done ladies, im one of the 1950. And have worked 48 year’s. Pay my TAX and Insurance. They have had enough Money out of me,anx they still want more.

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  262. The age should be brought back down to 60 and all of the women who should have got their state pension should have all their money backdated.that includes me

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  263. I’m 60 and my health has deteriorated there is no way I could notwork till I’m 66 and nine months i had to sell my house and try and live on the money that was left for me buying something smaller but it won’t last me for six years. It should go back to 60 and let the young ones work. I have worked since I was 11 it was only a paper round but went on from there. Most of my family has died at 60 and this freaked me out Knowing I was coming up to 60 So let’s hope it will happen but I’m not holding my breath

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  264. Fantastic news,let’s hope they get it overturned !! I’m a 1955 woman who is having to wait until I’m 66 to claim my pension and bus pass and I’ve just been made redundant after 23 years I. The same job,and it looks like I will have absolutely nothing coming in to keep me due to the new universal credit system thanks for nothing

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  265. Thank you for you fighting through this!
    As a woman who will be 63 this year, this past 2 years have been both a physical and psychological agony of having to work past my always known age of 60 to retire!
    If I had the funds I would take on the government and accuse and sue them for my now unstable state of mind. I have been dreadfully psychologically affected by this change to retirement age.
    Just now I should be enjoying a happy healthy retirement, instead I’m struggling daily as I deteriorate in many ways , life at the moment is a struggle and it will remain so until I can stop working.
    Please carry on your FIGHT so that older women can get out the way and make room for the younger workforce and give the employment!
    Thankyou

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  267. I don’t think it is fair to raise the pension age of women to over 65 because women are more likely to suffer life threatening illness when they are older. This means many will never reach 65. Also, I, as many other women of my age age and older, won’t be able to receive state pension until aged 66. Just because people are living longer, it didn’t mean they are all going to be fit enough to work longer. From my experience, I have seen older women suffering with all sorts of problems that make working over a certain age very difficult. Also, surely there will be jobs available for younger people by the vacancies that are created from the women who have retired.
    The new raise in pension age in general is unfair to people who have worked all their lives and contributed, because there will be quite a lot of these people who will only recieve a small amount or never live long enough to recieve any at all. Also, there are many jobs that are difficult for older people to do. This could be because of physical or mental disabilities that old age can induce to a vast majority of the population.

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  268. Absolutely fantastic news !
    National insurance was a tax on my earnings paid by me with a contribution from my employers take from my wages before I received the wage to build money for certain benefits like Maternaty pay and to give me a State Pension at the age of 60.
    I kept to my agreement and earned money paid tax and National Insurance so that I was ENTITED to my State Pension at the age of 60.
    That was the Law. I had no way of opting out of paying Income Tax and National Insurance.
    That was the deal –
    I kept my part of the deal
    I paid part of my hard earned wage to the Government every week of my working life until I reach the age of 60 so that by time I reach 60 years old I receive my State Pension.
    Therefore it seems to me that the Govenment should by Law have no way of opting out of the deal they made with me.
    Unless they wish to break the Law.

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  269. Absolutely fantastic news !
    Thank you to all those who have been a part of this.

    National insurance was a tax on my earnings paid by me with a contribution from my employers. It was taken from my wages from the age of 17 years.
    It was taken before I received my wage and I was told that I had to pay it to build money for certain benefits like Maternaty Pay , also to give me a State Pension at the age of 60.
    I kept to my agreement. I earned money paid tax and National Insurance so that I was ENTITLED to my State Pension at the age of 60.
    That was the Law. I had no way of opting out of paying Income Tax and National Insurance.
    That was the deal –
    I kept my part of the deal
    I paid Income Tax and National Insurance to the Government every week of my working life in order to receive my State Pension at age 60.
    Therefore it seems to me that the Govenment should by Law have no way of opting out of the deal they made with me in 1976.

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  270. Confused by this women are asking to be treated equal to men in all work related matter, but now they want to be treated differently around retirement age. Equal right has to be equal across the board for men and women

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  271. I am a 60 year old due to health issues I was deemed unfit for work due to capabilities
    And lost my job going from 1400 a month to 300 a month having to use my savings as I have more than I should have so cannot claim anything.
    ITS a joke you work hard all your life but then have to live on the bread line
    So much for our country and the government
    They won’t suffer in old age they won’t know how it feels to go without shame on you the rich get richer you work till yo drop

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  272. Amazing well done WASPI it was so unfair and poorly executed by not informing women of the 1950’s because the Government was underhanded trying to sneak it in regardless of the women they were stealing from. Those making such rules have so much wealth they do not need their State pensions shame on them for being blatantly discriminatory towards us 1950’s women who were the backbone of this Country.

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  273. Thank you all for your work in achieving this ruling.
    Am I correct in thinking that the Govt also put a clause in one of their Pension changes, stating that any further changes would require THEM to give 10 years’ notice to those affected, to allow them to make alternative financial arrangements? This clearly has NEVER been enforced.
    If I am correct then surely the case for 50’s women should be quite easy to prove!
    Most of us were NEVER personally notified that our pensions would be delayed and those that were, were told far too late to make other arrangements.
    We have been discriminated against for far too long, even being blocked from studying certain ‘male’ subjects at school and pushed into secretarial/clerical jobs – the first jobs to be lost when computers came in…..
    Paying us our pitiful pensions at 60 would still save the Govt money as it would be cheaper than the benefits they are having to pay younger people, some with families, who cannot get a job because we are not releasing our jobs into the employment market.
    I am currently living on savings put aside for my old age care – something the Govt advised us to do – so when I do need care, the Govt will now have to contribute at least 5 times the amount of my pension!!!!!!

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  277. Well done women of the 50″s. I am one l feel l lost out 5yrs pension. I have worked since l was 16yrs old and l am still worki g now. I am 65 next mo th and been told i still dont wualify until July 19 for my pension which is my money l have paid in now l wish to be paid what l am owed.

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  278. About time. Thank god for common sense. I am one of these woman and I have worked all my life. What right have the government got to dictate when I can have my pension. Money I have paid in with national insurance contributions. I hope they get this decision overturned. I have to keep working

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  279. This judicial review is much needed. I am nearly 65 years old and still working and when I am finally allowed to retire in 2020 this equality rubbish which was supposedly the reason for putting up our retirement age in Line with men will show its ‘ugly lies’. I will not even receive the same state pension as men even though I have worked all my life. I will be at least £40/week less. Disgusting.

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  280. I would love to receive my state pension now,I should like thousands of women received it when I turned 60 do I have missed out on nearly 5 yrs,I struggle as it is on ESA paying a mortgage and utilities etc,I never have money left over.The main reason for this is the government saving or making money out of vunerable people I pray this goes through not just for me but all women.

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  282. Truly believe that men and women should be able to retire at the same age, so to right this wrong what about a starting date of when the government changed the law to enforce equal pay between men and women from that date any women born before retires at 60 and any born after the law was passed retires at the same age as their male counterparts

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  284. Wow what a step forward, we must re enforce that woman born in 50’s esrly 60’s were not allowed to join a company pensions if the worked part time, no help in benefits in childcare either so lots of woman could only work part time, no job held open if you were pregnant, no maternity leave back in 70’s/80’s paid less thsn men for equal work, list goes on and on….

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  285. Hi a massive thank you from all of us a big fat well done 👍 at 60 I was told I had worked 44 years & anything I earned after 60 would not make a jot of difference to my pension which will not come into force until I am 66 what a big fat blow because no one informed me its diabolical ???? Good luck 😉 everyone kind regards xx

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  286. Fab news for the women born in the 50s we have all worked since we were 15 with very few years at home to raise children, we have paid our contributions into the system and the government has swindled us out of what should be our glory years not stressing about health, money, and trying to carry on working, good for waspi done Marie

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  287. I was born September 1954 people born in same year as me are getting their state pension this year 2019 , yet I have to wait till 2020 because my birthday is September, it’s so unfair the way they have delayed payments

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  288. This is a fantastic and encouraging development and should be supported wholeheartedly. I note earlier comments and agree totally that if we are “able” to send “our” hard earned money abroad then shouldn’t we first of all be looking after all those who have worked and contributed before being so “generous” to those who haven’t? I have been in employment since the age of 17 , always paid a full National Insurance stamp and yet had less than 12 months notice of the change to my pension age. I have 43 years of NI contributions on my record – only 35 years are needed now for a full state pension – and yet I will not get my state pension until I am 65 years and 8 months!! I could send in an invoice for a refund of my “overpayment” … as if that would get me anywhere!!!! I hope the review is carried in favour of individuals like me – of whom there are a considerable number – and yet whose arguments for a fair review have been ignored – watching with interest !!

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  289. My life was turned upside down when I missed out on my pension not for the better. Seemingly according to the staff at the job centre I missed getting my pension by 4 months so I have to work for another 6 years. The government done everyone out of £45,000 EACH.

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  290. I don’t think the jobs some of us are doing was even considered and when you get to 60.the Job is getting to much because of what you are doing its an absolute disgrace that we have to work till we are 66 it should never have been passed

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  291. This is BRILLIANT news …. well done & THANK YOU to all concerned in bringing this about & for championing “50’s” women …. Let’s make this a victory !!!!

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  292. Well I may finally receive the 47k I have been so cruelly deprived of, me and thousands more, absolutely disgraceful, have worked all my life, 65 in April and even then I have another 6 months added on,

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  293. Thank goodness for the rt Hon Justin’s Lang.
    Most women in this age bracket think they have been given a prison centece. My plans for moving this year to the country have been put on hold, until I retire. It would of been Mach 2019.
    Please help us women to get some justice.

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  296. This is a step forward in the right direction. There are many people robbed by the 6 year increase sadly may not make it to pension age or are financially ruined by this act. Surely a facing in of increased pension age would have been a fairer path to follow.

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  297. I am 55 and have to wait until I’m 67 for my pension 🥴 I know we want equal rights, but surely men don’t have to go through childbirth or the menopause all of which puts more strain on our smaller framed bodies

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  298. I was born in June 1960 will this affect me. Currently i think i get my pension at 67. There is no way on earth that i can hold down my current physical job until then it will literally kill me physically and emotionally

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  299. As one of those 50’s women, I have suffered terribly both financially, physically and mentally at not being able to draw my pension at 60. I am still having to work part-time, lookafter a husband who is not a well man, and care for an 88yr old mother as well as help out my children with child care.

    I welcome this review and pray for a successful outcome.

    It is outrageous, the way the government has treated me. I have 40+ National Insurance Contributions in and I have worked all my life sonetine having 3 jobs to make ends meet.

    Strength to your arm, and thank you

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  300. This is wonderful news !!!!! At least now we will get a hearing about how the government has taken an average of 6 years of our pension rights away whilst granting huge pensions to politicians aged under 60 !!! It’s an utter disgrace!!! We are all trying to continue to work the extra 6 years through ageing and exhaustion !!! Maybe they hope we will pass away before we are eligible for our pension!!! !!!!!!

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  301. I was advised that the retirement age for me would be 64 by letter some time ago probably while i was still 50 – something. What i was upset about was that i was not notified of the change to 66? and had to find out by other people commenting on it. My birthday was December 1954 and i congratulate those people just a few months older than me getting their pension at 64, I am now 64 and have to wait two more years. As it was obviously unfair why didnt they gradually make the difference ie for me 8 months after the shut off date it could have been 8 months after my 64th birthday still wrong but i would have accepted that!

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  302. Fabulous!!!! I only hope it gets sorted before I die!!! Well done!!!! Thankyou! I’m 63 this year and have another 3 years to wait, if this doesn’t change. I’ve realised now why the pension age was 60…….I’m more than ready to retire properly instead of having to work to replace my pension at my age!

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  303. I was born in the 50s and the impact on my health has invited to work until I am 67 is unfair, as with a lot of women we have do e 2 jobs, raising children and being I. The workforce, I feel fighter of the decisions for a review as I always felt it was unfair, my sister as with a lot of women missed being able to retire by days and now have to work for another 5 and 1/2 years how is it fair let us retire to give younger people our jobs.

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  304. They changed it in the April as i turned 60 in the June i think it should of not started in a quater of a year either as someone whos were 60 in March n April but the rest of us lost out that were born From the May onwards so not fair couldnt even get a dam.bus pass it awful i think they should give us the money we are owed too and im 63 this year

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  305. It absolutely disgraceful what has happened to those of us born in the 50’s. I am 64 years of age. I had to retire because of Heath issues with a small works pension. I was relying on my State Pension when I was 60. I have now to rely on my husband’s income to make ends meet. I have worked like many others for over 30 years paid national insurance and tax. I thought I was going to enjoy and be comfortable in my retirement but that’s not the care. Come on pay us what we are entitled too.

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  306. Hopefully things with move forward quickly. SOME people will never make it to their increased pension age as are sadly no longer with us. What about all the people’s monies paid who never even live to get their pension. Family’s don’t get it !!!. It has put a huge strain on many people who have not been able to put aside the extra money needs for the 6 years added to their pension age with little or no warning !!

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  307. I strongly believe women of 60 should be able to recieve their pension , to make us wait until we are 66 is totally unfair , we’ve paid in our national insurance stamps , but we will have to make up the difference by the time we reach 66 …. I have to find £300 pound to put towards my N/I contributions to recieve my pension it is totally wrong and very unfair … To someone working this may not sound a lot but but to me someone suffering from a debilitating disease it is a lot…. I reiterate it is cruel and totally unfair to us all who were born in the 50s ….

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  308. I was so looking forward to my state pension at 60..after working full time since leaving school and paying full national insurance contributions . Then the shock when I reached 60 the government moved the goalposts to 66,no prior notification given!
    So unfair ..I now have to struggle to keep working..very difficult when I have bad days, arthritic feet & fibromyalgia..
    Also help with the grandchildren care .
    We women of the 50’s have been trodden on by this insulting action …

    This news is an heartening step forward..Thank you

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  309. It’s an absolute disgrace the pension age was raised when most of us have worked since we were 15, paying our taxes and national insurance. It’s blatant theft!

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  310. It’s an absolute disgrace the pension age was raised when most of us have worked since we were 15, paying our taxes and national insurance. It’s blatant theft!

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  312. Well done ladies. It is wrong that all our Pensions have been plundered even more so for the ladies. Six years more work isn’t always practical as health often makes it harder and common sense says if we keep the jobs how are the young ever going to get used to employment. Its kind of daft to keep us oldies at work having made our forty years of National Insurance Contributions and also unfair when Civil Servants and MPs responsible can retire young with Pensions which are often equivalent to ten or fifteen years of ours with figures we could only dream of. Ladies have also lost more as it has taken years to move towards equality in pay. Its been getting there but far too slowly so having been paid less very unfair to take more from you.

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  313. Well done it was a ridculass decision that affected so many women.
    Dissagree withe men’s going to 67.
    Was nothing but money saving exercise fight on ladies good luck.

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  314. I am 60 worked all my life since I was 11 never claimed benefits and was so looking forward to retiring at 60 now it’s 67 don’t know if I can last that long I am shattered so unfair let ya oldies retire and give the youngsters that are sat at home looking for work a chance they are probably getting paid more than I would get on my state pension I can’t see the logic in this

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    • My wife has the double-whammy of having her University occupational pension age increased from 60 to 65 some time ago (as far as I am aware with no particular notification as she shows me all her pension stuff as I worked in pensions). She even thought that her occupational pension age was 65 from the outset until I mentioned it and went to some old documents. Now she has to wait a year after that for her State Pension.

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  315. I should av retired over 14 months ago instead im waiting for tribunal for esa cos im unfit for work . Where they say I’m fit for work with all the illnesses i av I should nt av all this stress its making me wish I was dead cos let’s face it if the dont overturn it up be sectioned before i can do owt so put the age back to 60 lets av some peace of mind not live in fear

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  316. Well done to all the people who have worked so hard to achieve this astounding result.I applaud each and every one of you. I will be in receipt of my pension on the 5th of March 2019. I was 65 years old on the 2nd of January 2019. I was so tired of the government moving the goal posts and not advising me personally!! I would have thought that such an important change, and the resulting impact on women’s​ lives, written advice of the changes they were making, should have been conveyed to everyone that was affected by these radical changes. The Government is very quick to write to you personally when you owe them money for Taxes etcetera. Something as important as your Pension changes is obviously not considered important!!!! I wonder if they have changed the Goal Post’s on their very excessive Pensions and if so, were they made aware of it??? I am very disgruntled and ashamed of the culprits!! I have always been conscious throughout my working life, that a job worth doing, is worth doing correctly!!!
    Susan O’Callaghan

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    • Well done David and thank you for fighting so hard on our behalf.
      I was born in June 1954, they have increased my pension age twice, firstly from age 60 to age 64, then they increased it again to 66, totally unfair.

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      • It’s so bad…. this is how ridiculous it all is.. you are 65 March and will get your pension. I’ll be 65 in October but don’t get mine until October 2020!!!! How is that worked out?? I will have 50 FULLY PAID YEARS OF NI AND TAXES…

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      • Well done David hencke my birthday is 5th December 1958 I am 61 this year but I have been told I have to wait till I am 64

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      • How does that work I was born June 1958 I don’t get to retire till I’m 66 and I was born before you I really don’t understand why I work two more years?

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      • I was born in December 1956 l have worked from being 15, I have been informed that l have to work till my 66th birthday. At present l am 62 years 4 months. I have paid all my contributions. So l cannot see how any one born in 1958 can retire before myself.

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      • I think you may find that you will be 66. However this I supposed to be under review in October 2020 where they are looking to raise it to 67 for both men and women.

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      • That’s mad I was born June 1954
        My first increase 62.7 months
        I found out 58 yrs age
        Then to 65.7 months didn’t find that out until after 60 and only by word mouth.
        If you are same month year how can yours be so different😡💁🏼

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      • I contacted pensions. They told me Oct 2020 unless it changes next year (pensions eview in october 2020. May then be pushed to 67.

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      • Just realised that the government needs our money to pay for Brexit. I shouldn’t be so selfish…. the rich stay rich..

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      • I am 60 gone December how long would I have to wait I was born 1958 the paperwork I received last year tells me how much my state pension will be when when the time comes

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  317. Just checked my NI CONTRIBUTIONS (I’m 64 …. 65 come October THIS year). I HAVE 47 FULLY PAID YEARS ONE PART AND TOLD TWO YEARS TO RETIREMENT. TOLD I CAN TOP IT UP!!!! HOW MUCH MORE DOES THE GOVERNMENT WANT.. If i was a rich desperate ready to retire lady I would get together with all the other rich ready to retire ladies and SUE the government……. but I’m not!!!!! And neither are any of the other ladies I know…I’m just one of the government’s poor pawns in their game of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

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  318. This is a shamble poor woman who plan the future the government have failed to deliver and robbed them of their money 💰

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    • As I’ve said many times before, the changes were publicised for the best part of 20 years and don’t forget that stupid men started it by whinging, justifiably, about mens’ pension age being 5 years later than womens’ and who other than idiots would think that the Government would spend a shitload of taxpayers money lowering the mens’ age to 60 rather than raise the womens’ to 65, saving a fortune for the taxpayer (after all it’s not the Government’s money. it’s ours, the taxpayers).

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  322. Women already face a glaring gender pension gap, receiving almost 40 per cent less than men because of low pay and career breaks, a government study calculated last year.
    That divide – around £7,000 – is more than twice the much-criticised gender pay gap, when state, personal and workplace pensions are combined.
    Why are we continually penalised for the lack of joined up policy making. Also, about time government recognised that the “ we’re all living longer” statistics show that the increases have now stalled. What a surprise

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  323. I am nearly sixty three. My husband died 5 years ago without ever claiming his pension. He was 62 where has his pension gone. I can’t claim it. WHY???. I care for my mother with dementia, carers is €66 per week. We live off my mother’s pension and struggle. All so grossly unfair…
    Give me my state pension I have worked from age 16 .

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  324. Good result so far keep it up
    I am affected by this with the final blow being the jump from the sliding scale {for me being 64.4 age) to 66 without warning which means I will have workers for 50 years at retirement
    I am not in the best health {high bp/diabetes/arthritis and am being threatened with dismissal due to sick time off
    THIS IS BY THE NHS
    I am on my own and have no private pension so have no choice but to keep working with a high risk of dismissal if/when I am ill again which will put me in a dire situation

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  325. A women’s working life is longer than a mans. Once you have a family it’s 24hrs a day seven days a week. Children grow up leave home women goes out to work comes home does Washing cleaning cooking looks after grandkids. Parents get old women looks after them How often do you see a retired women fishing golfing ect. Give us women a break and let us retire to enjoy life. We paid contributions it’s not a gift. Let some unemployed person take our job and let them contribute instead of taking out of the system

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  327. About time government were held to book on this one. I hope that the petition is agreed and women can move forward into financial stability

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  328. I was born 1961 and like most have had my children then returned back to my career. I have worked since leaving school and have paid ni contributions and feel I should have my pension when promised. I wouldn’t have minded waiting an extra year but not 6

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    • Neither I nor my friends were notified of this massive betrayal. Now thanks to Back to 60 and Waspi it appears that we were never meant to be made fully aware of this major financial impediment to those born in the 50’s. Like all 3.4 million + ladies I hope the petition is successful. I wonder how the government would react to losing over 3 million votes at the next general election – anyone out there fancy starting a new political party? I feel anyone would be more than a match for what is on offer !!

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  329. Well done hope we get something back do you think this will happen I lost out to my mention at 60 for 1 day I was born on the 7th April 1953. I was so annoyed I thought it was a joke.

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  332. I left work at 55 to spend time looking after my very elderly parents. Believing I would receive my pension at 60. To be informed after this age I would be 66 and 10 months
    I never had a penny whilst caring for my parents or for my mother who needed my care 24 hours a day for the last 6 months of her life.
    My husband has supported me through but I’m lucky in that respect.
    When you think your savings have to last 5 years and suddenly it’s nearly 12 just not acceptable

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  333. Well done for fighting for me as well as all other 50’s women x I’ve worked all my life and will lose some £46,000 if it goes ahead x thank you x

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  335. Marvellous news A terrific result and the right one ! Myself and other family members have all been directly financially affected and as a subsequence mentally too due stress of coping with the financial loss. I hope all 1950’s women get behind and support the ongoing fight for redress.

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  336. This is excellent news. Part of the problem is the Government decided not to pay into the pension pot which explains why the increased the qualifying age for pension.
    This has also impacted on all pensioners .look at the continent you will see Germany, Portugal and Spain are paying their pensioners up to twice as much as British pensioners.
    However the non payments into our pension fund has not negatively impacted on mps!

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  337. Well done guys. I hope many of us are still around for victory. I didn’t know I would not get a pension until I went on a retirement course. To add injury, as a public servant, working many more hours than I was paid for, I wS advised I would only get a reduced pension. I am now on the poverty line. Thanks for trying to right this terrible wrong. Kathy

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  338. The pension age for women should have been raised periodically over a period of 20 or so years, NOT raised by in effect 6 years in one foul swoop. Women and their families would have had plans made years before retirement only to have those plans destroyed or put on hold for 6 years. Totally wrong.
    Men of today’s retirement age, In general are older than their female partners and therefore would presumably be wanting to enjoy their retirement with their spouse. Also It means that those women who were born the day after the cut off day will be working and paying their NI contributions for a further 6 years to receive the same pension as those that had their birthday the day before them, that equates to approx £43,000 on pensions and precious years lost.

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  339. Excellent result though I do think it should include all women over the age of 25 when the decision was made asthen those 25 and under would have had opportunities to prepare for retirement whereas women over 25 would not have so many years to prepare for a later retirement

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  340. Yes all woman should be able to retire at the age of 60 if they want to our work doesn’t finish when we finish work at 430 or other time we have a husband children to cook and clean household to look after were on the go 24 7 I was born 15 Jan 1960 so i would loose it by 15 days if u made the year 1950

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  343. Well done to those who have persevered with this campaign in order to help all of us 50’s women who have been discriminated against regarding the raising of the pension age x. Also to those others who have aided them x Well fine all xx

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  345. To be honest I blame it on women who want equality for everything, I could see this coming years ago you can’t pick and choose what you want equality in

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  346. They should let people retire at 60 and make way for the young to step into there jobs I feel I’m 64 will be 65 in October and I have worked all my days and feel it’s time for me to have a life now and let the young get jobs . Can the government tell me where all the pensions money that have not been claimed where does the money go as I have a lot of friends that have died and worked all there life’s and didn’t get to reach there pension age I just feel 60 is long enough to work plus the MPs can retire in there 50s

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  350. I am so glad these women have persevered with this action. I had to take early retirement at 54 due to ill health. I was expecting to get my state pension at 60. Still waiting (now aged 61).

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  352. I was looking forward to retiring at 62 but not receiving my government one til 66 this means my long term partner as retired this year at 65 he will be 69 when I can retire meaning what kind of quality of life can we enjoy they should have been better prepared and also not paying full amour because they say that generation stayed at home looking after children the 60s children have been better prepared to to able to save and retire early

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  353. Fantastic well done keep up the good work for us 50’s . I should have received my state pension this year, which is so annoying that I haven’t, knowing I’m going to miss 6 years pension us absolutely disgraceful, I have never been out of work in my life yet I am treated this way shocking keep going for us all and ince again thank you and well done

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  354. I started work at fifteen and I’m now sixty five and I should have received my pension five years ago but I’m still waiting till the end of this year! Decades have past since this lousy government decided to add on six years just like that it’s disgusting and I think it’s wrong.I hope that this can be rectified for all concerned.

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  356. This is a great step forward .Still along way to go ,how dare these people who have probably never done a physically hard days work in there lives play with mine and deprive me of what ive spent my whole life WORKING FOR, it isn’t a gift we’ve worked for this ,onward and upward

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  357. So if they wanted equality in age why not have the age difference met in the middle as opposed to raising it totally to meet the males.
    Oops. All about money, not equality.

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  359. I hope we get justice but will not hold my breath. I have had to change jobs because I could not do the lifting and standing for an 8 hour shift. I now work more hours to compensate for a drop in pay so now I am 63 I work 40 hours a week look after my grandson on my day off and have a husband with Parkinson’s. Hope I reach 66 to draw my pension.

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  360. Does this mean that those of us who are 65 and only just received our pension might be entitled to compensation?

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  361. Hope this happens it’s hard work in your 60s working a 40 hr week only got another 2years 8 months before I retire at the sad pension age 66 worked all my life it’s not easy when you have things wrong with you and take medication

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  362. I was born in the 1950’s I am 63 now I have arthritis and I had to get my pension from the factory I used to work at because I couldn’t do the work

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  363. Go girls about time we have been working from 15 and 16 years of age couldn’t even have a mortgage in the 70s they only took the mans wage into consideration in those days had to pay our stamp to get pension at 60 though and then they didn’t even stagger it to 66 -shame on the lot of them

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  364. It is the way that it was done. First I was told my pension age had changed from 60 to 62 then 2 years later I received a letter to say it was 66. Me and my husband had planned for years in preparation for retirement , which has now left us in turmoil.
    I have worked since I was 16 , I have paid in so feel I’m entitled to have it out. What are the government doing with the 5.3 billion they have gained off of us 50s women.

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  365. I saved for my retirment as that is what the goverment wanted ,i should have retired at 60 ,but i caint retire until im 65 1/2 ,ive wrote to the goverment twice ,and was told to apply for benefits ,but because of my savings im not entitled to any benefits,so im using my savings now ,so when i reach my retirment age i wont have much of my savings left ,so instead of enjoying my retirement ,im dreading it ,WHY OH WHY DID I LISTEN TO THE GOVERMENT ,worked all my life !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  371. Makes my blood boil. I’ve worked from being 15. I am now 61 with ill health and they expect me to work until I’m 66.They will kill me. You will have blood on your hands. Even worked when my children were little until midnight. Done my bit for Queen and Country. I’m tired!!!!

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  372. Good on these women our pension age should never have changed hopefully the government will let it go back to sixty for usiam63 and don’t keep well so it would be great if our pension age was brought back down to 60

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  373. Successive governments and the DWP have committed fraud. We the people would have been jailed. I need justice now.

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  374. Please God this will happen for us 50s women as some of us dont have the best health but we still have to work as we are not sick enough for this government

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  375. Talk of equality to make it that men and women get their state pension at the same age is ridiculous. I started work age 16 in 1971, my husband started work age 19 the same year. My husband got his pension age 65 and I have to wait until I’m 66 which means I will have been working just a little short of 50 years whereas my husband received his after working 46 years, how is that equal rights?

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  377. Born in 1958 , worked since aged 16 , had a family, divorced, ( with mortgage , p/t job ) never claimed benefits, 10 yrs of menopausal symptoms , still exhausted, but still trying to flog myself to 66 , not easy + feel resentful. Good luck to back to 60 .

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  378. Thank you for all the work that you have put into this. I don’t understand some of the comments regarding us women and equal rights because there still is a pay gap between men and women. The other problem is that if you are made redundant when in your fifties try finding someone that will employ you, it’s hard, and they say its not age discrimination, who are they kidding. Well done everyone.

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  379. I am so unbelievably relieved this has happened. I retired on ill health and am entitled to no support. I am 64 and having to take equity release to survive until I’m 66. I have no savings left and all that I worked 30 years for is disappearing fast. If I had known about this early enough I could have planned better. Please keep fighting and win.

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  380. I was born in 1965 and I have to wait till 67 to get my pension why is that any fairer than getting it at 65 and my job is only going to get harder the older I get. Think it’s disgusting the amount of money that goes abroad to other countries and our pensioners, Police, Fire and NHS suffers we need to sort ourselves out before we sort out others.

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  382. Fantastic news!! I am a health care assistant in a hospital, my health is not good due to 6 slipped discs in my back and problems with my feet. I have 6 more years to work till I can retire but honestly…I don’t think I can last much longer in my job. I will HAVE to otherwise I will have nothing to live on! Normally, I would of been retired over a year ago!!

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  383. Good!! this is indeed heartening news for women my age who are feeling the strain and I might also add the discrimination against them from those who have no such concern such as This Tory Government making us feel like we are paupers cap in hand for money well earned over decades and at a time when changes are taking place within our bodies. I have noticed that whilst enjoying my work my younger peers becoming quite concerned about my actual physical ability to “keep up ” which can feel like discrimination when in fact it is concern, something The powers that be are lacking in.

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  384. Well done, I have work since the age of 16 had no children payed in to the pension so why should I be penalised I have earned the right to be retired at 60 my bus pass say I’m a pensioner so give me my pension Jenny Hillman

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    • I wish we had bus passes in Cumbria, they make us wait until we get a state pension another way to get at women who deserve better treatment

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      • Yes given Cumbria is such a beautiful place, the chance to use buses free of charge to get out in the country and keep healthy should not be denied to the people who live there. It should be like London where the Mayor allows everyone who lives there to use the buses free at the age of 60.

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      • I live in Manchester have worked from being 15 years of age. We don’t get a bus pass here till we have retired. I cannot see why some people get a bus pass and some have to wait. I am still working looking after people who are elderly in there own homes. I am nearly 63 years young.

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  385. What will this mean for me now I turn 60 in Sept and was told I had still 6 years to work before I got my state pension

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  387. Thank you for believing that 50’s woman deserve the right to be heard. Thank you for keeping me informed and allowing our point of view to be heard.

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  388. Thank you for having the courage to fight against the government on this issue I’m one of the 50 women and I am happy something is going to be done about this at last

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  389. About time.its not fair to keep moving the pension goalposts for women. By rights I should now be a pensioner, but have to wait for my state pension till I’m 67.it will be a welcome breakthrough for me

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  390. Hi David and team.
    Just a big thank you for all the hard work , and to the people trying to get.us some Justice . I was born in 1956 so will have to wait till I am 66, not able to work now due to poor health, dont know what I would live on now , but for a hard working husband.

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  392. I have worked at weekends and school holidays from 14-16 years old. Then full time for 44 years all that national insurance and tax! I should be retiring in December but now I have to go another 6 years and my health is getting poorer. Well done to everyone for fighting for our rights and fairness!

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  393. not only have they robbed my pension but.my widows benefit my husband paid into the system all is life and i got nothing in return when my husband died suddenly and i am forced to carry on working even though i should have been retired and had a widows benefit

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  394. I lost just over a year of my pension because I was born in February, if I had been born in December I would have retired a year earlier, it cäused me great financial hardships, I was given just 6 months notice that my retirement had been delayed by over a year.

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  395. I am one of the women affected by this robbery of our pensions by the government. Since the age of 60 I have had 2 debilitating operations and a marriage breakdown. I found myself having to claim universal credit and trying to *exist* on this cos u can’t* live* on it! Since my recovery I have been forced to go back to work fulltime even though I still suffer pain on a daily basis. All this after paying into the system for 45 years.

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  397. I have never understood why the Government didn’t stagger the age increase…61 for those born in the 1950’s. 62 for those born in the 60’s etc. ending with both men and women retiring at 65. I know people are living longer, but we paid for our pensions!

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  399. Good news I am 59 can not retire untill I am 68 I have severe arthrits which has already put me down to part time work there is no way I will be able to work till I’m 68yrs old keep up the good work and hopefully we will all be able to retire earlier

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  401. At last, this should never had happened to our age group most of us started work at 12 years old and like me now at 63 are still working full time.

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  403. I feel very strongly about this and pleased they have a chance to help women who should have retired at 60…lworked in a very manual job..had to wait till I was 62 years 3 months to retire with pension..those extra years took their toll on my body and mind…hopefully something will come of this judgment .

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  404. Finally our voices have been heard. Bravo to the fair minded judge who has stood up in the face of injustice and a massive thank you to the groups of women who have faced derisory remarks and knock backs over the years for forging forward. Hopefully now this unfair and badly treated situation will be aired fairly and with the respect and care the 50s women have been asking for for years.

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  405. Fabulous- at long last. I’ve had to work an extra 6.6 years with the government taking National Insurance from me whilst denying me the state pension I thought I was going to originally receive when I turned 60. Having to try to sell my house to downsize, again, and Brexit is messing that up too! Very much affected by all of this! Thank you.

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  406. I have always thought these actions taken in 1995 are an injustice and all of my friends have been made so much poorer for our old age and very much uninformed I have now worked for 47 years and still have to continue working to achieve a full old age pension

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  409. I would like to give praise to these Pioneering women fighting on our behalf, I for one feel I have been robbed and I was ready to retire at 60 to help my daughter who has Autistic children but was gutted when they moved the goal post I’m now 62 I don’t understand why is it that we being part of EU seem to be the only country having to work longer, we have to think,what of our children they are going to have to work even longer.

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  410. What a farce the DWP puppets are.

    Firstly billions of pounds shortfall found in the state pension pot. What happened to that? How did that happen ?

    Then they decide to increase ages as the DWP backs were to the wall. Had to sort this mess out but who would pay the price? Everyone entitled to state pension. Moreover the 50’s women who were going to lose 10’s of thousands.
    If I make a mistake at work I am responsible so DWP accept your shortcomings and your persistent inabilities to manage funds.

    They hood winked everyone with their deceipt. Giving little to no information to these women hoping we would put up and shut up.

    Then in 2016 they made the state pension a benefit. Strange that!

    The DWP condemned the judge allowing a judicial review. Why would this be a problem to them if they had done everything correctly. Why did they need extra time for the case. The reason was clear, this would open a can of worms with teeth.

    They basically told the judicial review judges there was nothing they could do about it . Also nothing the European Human rights could do either as pension was classed as a benefit.

    DWP deception, trickery and lies all the way. We pay for these idiots and they have the audacity to have a go at judges and the women of the 50’s. What goes around comes around so I suggest they think long and hard as somehow we will nail them for this scandal.

    We will not give up DWP no one commits a crime and gets away with it when the evidence of their wrong doing is on the table. So don’t expect the 50’s women to go away. We’ve all worked to damned hard and want what’s due to us.

    Support is growing for our case so DWP this is one cover up your not going to brush under the carpet.

    Dee

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  411. If we didn’t keep sending money to third world countries or the likes of India who don’t need it. Then we wouldn’t be in this mess.
    Stop sending money abroad. Stop subsidising Scotland as they don’t want to be part of the UK. Put the money back into the communities where its needed for child poverty. NHS. elderly care. The Homeless. Schooling. Police. Etc. Etc.

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  412. Watching closely as this progress unfolds as the governments of the UK, seemed to make the gap between men and women , the rich, inbetweeners and the poor, wider and wider each year, I look to the first steps of equality raising along with MP who have the people at the heart of their service to the UK government (born in 1954, worked from the age of 15), I had no idea that the date for my pension had been changed :-(, well done UK for your cloaking abbilities, ITS NOW TIME TO BE TRANSPARENT

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  413. I was born in 1961. Started working in 1978 working towards getting my pension at 60!!!! Its not only affecting people born in the 50’s. Us born in the 60’s are all in the same boat.

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  414. Thank to the steering group for fighting the corner of women born in the 50’s i have worked From the age of 16yrs I’m nearly 62 and without my pension, it makes life difficult. Not the way retirement should be

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  415. Well done for someone who was born in the 50s and having to work an extra 6 years it delays the younger generation of securing jobs less time for us to spend with our families.i lost two friends last year both just 60 that proves lifes precious for what time we have left.

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  416. i will ask a question please
    Why if they wanted to bring the age to the same as men without causing any hardship to we women “backto60” plus thousands of others did they not bring the mans pension age down for men to 60 the same as women
    No man nor woman would have suffered this awful awful hardship and been made to beg family to help feed them as this is what i have resorted to many times
    The only people to have lost out would have been DWP
    There is your proof it was all about saving there (our) money and not bringing pension age the same male and female
    DWP i gave you my money to take care of Youu!! haven stolen it from me i never gave you permission to use my money or yo pay me back with no interest i add 6 years later it is theft!!! on a grand scale this can be sorted and bring both men and womens pension age yo 60 pay our money back the interest OUR money in your bank will have made you will still allow you DWP to fritter some away
    Mrs Patricia Aldred

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  417. Fantastic we paid in enough most women brought up kids and worked looked after ageing parents husband’s support no time for education or college uni so we could build for ours thankyou ladies I’m proudxxxx

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  419. I was 65 in March 2019 and don’t get my pension till September will I get it back dated to when I was 60? I don’t think so.

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  420. Well done for making such an effort to get as far as this!
    This was our insurance policy gir retirement and they changed the rules !!!
    Thnk you

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  421. Can they also question the legality of discontinuing widows pension due to the hardship this has caused to countless widows. This on to of losing a partner.

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  422. Sense at last…..hats off to Justice Lang for ruling in our favour….it’s despicable that the 50’s women (of which I’m one) have been robbed of their rightful pensions from the age of 60…..let’s hope for a good outcome when the case is put forward….thank you to all who are fighting on our behalf.

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  423. I am now 65 and angry that I’m forced to work till I’m nearly 66 it would’ve been nice to have the choice to work on but that was not given to me and many others . Thanks to all in back to 60 campaign .well done on your achievement .

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  424. This is great news for women like myself that were literally given months notice that I would have to work 4yrs 8mths and 2 days longer to receive my government pension.i worked 48 years paying full contributions which is well in excess of what is needed to qualify for a pension. I still strongly feel that the age should be 60 for men and women , this giving the youth’s of today a chance to find employment instead of claiming benefit.

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  425. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! Well Done Everyone on your HARD WORK💪to get to this stage, and Good 🍀 Luck on future negotions. All of us affected Deserve to WIN what is rightfully ours, and not what’s been unlawfully taken by our thieving, lying government, and those supporting their already overflowing coffers
    👍Thank you

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  426. I have worked since age 16 my father died at 62 I want to have freedom to retire and live a bit while I’m still in good health. I’m praying for me and all the ladies who are fighting the way the government has STOLEN our pensions.
    I was outside the houses of Parliament a few years ago with thousands of women from WASPI and the next day nothing was in the newspapers its all a cover up!!
    We will carry on fighting our corner.

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  430. I have worked and paid into the system from the age of sixteen if i had paid into s private Pention all these year I would have already claimed this I would be able to reduce my hours to give someone younger to take my place also my quality of life would be a whole lot better in the knowing that I wasn’t working until I drop

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  432. Back to 60. I didnt know it was now raised 67 I thought it was 65. I wont be working to 65 never mind 67. Arthritis wont let me.

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  433. Absolutely thrilled with the judgement to date . Onwards and upwards.
    We all contributed and it’s our money that has been denied to us.
    I just hope that having retired to Cyprus I will still be eligible for any payments due. Cross fingers.
    Still having to work and finding life tough.

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  434. So pleased that we are getting some questions answered. I was temporarily unemployed last year and was told that I had paid all my money in & would be able to claim extra money when I retire. So wrong one year 305 days and counting.

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  435. Thank goodness this is being taken seriously many women of the 50s are struggling after working all their lives and unable physically do do their job

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  439. Excellent news. Reaching 60 and finding work is difficult. There most definitely is ageism which is affecting the life styles of many woman born in the 50’s with there increasing health difficulties for example arthritis which his most of us and limits our job prospects.

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  440. I should have received my pension 4 years ago but due to changes dipped out. It would be fantastic if this was passed and back payments received also but sadly I won’t be holding my breath!!!

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  441. Well done. I am a believer in choice and anyone who is fit enough to work over pensionable age and feels they can good on them but having to work till 66 etc choice is taken away. I am also a believer in Old Age Pension is not a benefit we work all our lives and pay into it so it is our entitlement.

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  443. The government have robbed us, worked and paid in since I was fifteen. Never did I get a letter telling me of this change, struggling to cope and looking after elderly parents, how can we work full time. Us women have paid in for decades, it’s our money, they should be accountable, they have robbed us.

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  444. This is fantastic news and one I will be watching. I have struggled like most women, having had to wait 5yrs for something that WAS mine.

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  445. I am so pleased with this.
    A major start to help us women.
    I worked from 15yrsof age and retired at 60yrs of age after working 39yrs as a registered nurse. My husband has had to help finance my life.
    I worked, ran a home, went to college then university and worked on a busy ward.
    I retired as I couldn’t work at that pace any longer. I fell ill and have been unwell most of my retirement.
    I feel like something is to be done to help me and other people in this predicament.
    Thankyou.

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  446. I should think so too! I have been a nurse for over 40 years. I paid my taxes and national insurance and never had time off. I am 61 now and worked hard I wan’t to retire but can’t afford to, my health has suffered greatly mainly down to being on my feet all day and the poor standard of manual handling back in the day when we did not have the type of equipment used today. The job is so stressful what with new policies and directives being thrown at us on a daily basis,never mind the lack of resources and long hours. I worked bloody hard for my pension and will probably be dead by the time I will get it.!!!

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  447. What makes my blood boil is that we are still paying towards our pension between the ages of 60 and 66 but will not get any financial gain from it !

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  448. Glad to hear the news . I was ready and looking forward to retirement. I was s busy working mum and so looking forward and wanting to step in and enjoy more time with my grandchildren .
    I also worry that my husband is expected to work over 65 now . Pension age should never have been changed ( at least not raised – lowered for both sex) After all we’ve paid our NI and there are so many younger generation out of work ( government paying job seekers /unemployment benefit ). They should be given a chance to train up and step in .

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  449. Great news I am one of those woman and lucky for me I have savings which are slowly dwindling away I had to retire at62 to look after my husband with terminal cancer he’s dead now.However now I look after my 90 year old mum so going back to work is not an option at 65 I feel I gave my best years to the health service from the age of 17 I feel cheated bythe government and could do with my pension but still have to wait

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  451. I think all women should be given the option of retirement at 60. Many women like myself have worked from leaving school and are ready at sixty to start enjoying retirement before it is too late. If women want to carry on working then that’s fine they should receive their pension when they officially retire. At least this way women are given a choice.

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  452. Thank you for campaigning for us. It’s just such a massive discriminatory injustice to women. They moved the goal OST’s mud game.

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  453. Really hope this goes through.so many of us have not had the notice to allow to make changes to there pensions many are working with lots of health problems .as they cannot afford to finish work .we have lost nearly 50.000 pounds it is disgusting

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  454. I am 64 this month and had to check the internet to see when I retired, its 66 , was never told officially. As I have now grown older and am suffering from osteoarthritis in my hands and wrist working has become increasingly difficult. I was always looking forward to being 60 as worked since I was 15 , I think we have been treated terribly…

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  455. When will people understand the real problem that the women are fighting. It isn’t equality, it isn’t even raising the age as such, it’s the shortage of notice. Women have planned years before how they will retire. Now, all of a sudden they can’t. I only had to wait 6 months my sister has had to wait 6 years!! That is the issue and it is daylight robbery.

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  457. Please god I have worked since 15 full time paid full stamp and still working full time now it’s jjst not now or never been fare. They want us dead

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  460. Thank goodness that the team at Back to 60 fought this attack on the financial security of a generation of women who did not have access to private pensions (unlike their male counterparts), who were persuaded to pay the reduced married woman’s stamp and who are now facing, as a consequence, unforseen hardships just because government saw them as a soft target for saving money. This was never about gender equality. The inequalities (already stated in the arguments put forward) have existed for decades and it was women who were disadvantaged and then made to wait for up to 6 years for a promised state pension. This meant that government robbed these women of tens of thousands of pounds. A pensions minister resigned over this, recognising that this was a deeply flawed policy. At the inception of the national pension scheme it was already recognised that women would be disadvantaged but nothing was done to address this. Now, in the 21st century, after all if the legislation on gender equality and age discrimination, it seems that women of pensionable age can be made to lose the pension that is rightfully theirs. Or so government thought. Thank you Back to 60 on behalf of all of the women affected by this outrageous state sponsored theft.

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  461. I have osteoarthritis in all my joints, spondylitis in my neck and back, and lordosis in the spine, am 62 and have to struggle to carry on working to 66.

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  462. I am in awe of the “backto60” group who have championed our cause so successfully to date. It is appalling that we have been forced out of our right to a pension after contributing into the system far longer than those born in later years. The emphasis on 50’s women was to work for a living and raise families, rather than go to university and take a year out to travel the world. Many of us are now also having to look after elderly parents/relatives because of a lack of care home space and the social funding to provide financial assistance. The 50’s women have saved the welfare state and government a fortune by our contribution and to be done out of a pension so we have to work longer is a disgrace. It also means we have less time to care for elderly relatives creating enourmous stress and exhaustion. Keep going….you are doing a marvellous job; and even if you dont win you are all heros in my eyes.

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  463. Thank David Hencke this act as affected me. Worked since the age of 16 will actually 13 as had a after school and weekend job. Suffer with Arthritis. I am shocked to read this act was passed 23 years ago. Surely the fact that we were never imformed directly must stand for something. I would willingly March on the government.

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  465. Is this not an issue for men born in the fifties working beyond their 65th birthday to subsidies their wife loss of pension rights past the age of sixty on top seeing their own pension eligibility creep up to 66 or more. Are enough of supporting this cause. If not why not? Keep up the good work. How can we help.

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  466. Even now this does not make the main news . Maybe people will now take notice , David Hencke has kept us all informed. Hopefully the group will go on to win the case for us all.

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  467. We will have contributed 7 years (in my case) more NI contributions than those who retired age 60. I had hoped I could volunteer for good causes when I reached 60 instead I still work. Can’t get a bus pass til 67 either and government want us to use public transport as opposed to our cars!

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  469. The Government taken our pension they are making us work 5/6 extra years so they are also getting taxation and national insurance from us for and extra 5/6 years so making
    extra money from us three fold.

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  470. I think all women born in the fifties should have got to retire at 60 because they have all paid enough in to the system 44years and some a lot more. And a lot of women are out of work and can’t get a job because of their age

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  474. It appears that justice may be done for 50s women.
    Equality was and is not the argument,but fair play to a gender that did what was expected of them during their early years.bring up their families do right by them and then…be vilified in their senior years for doing so.
    Respect and admiration for all the men and women who have tirelessly fought to be heard during this long arduous legal battle.I truly hope these glorious women get their entitled reward.

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  476. At last some one is listening I have worked from 15 yrs old had a break when I had my children my job was extremely hard and stressful at times as a nurse I had planned to retire at 60 to help my children out looking after my grandchildren whilst they worked not to be I had to wait for four and a half years for my pension carried on working days and nights whilst caring for my grandchildren on my days off I continued to work until I was 63 then retired as I was exhausted I’m 65 now I would like my money back that the government have taken from me from me it’s just so unfair for women born in the fifty’s

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  477. This is not the government’s money to make decisions on. Everyone had paid into the state pension so it is not a benefit. The government should also answer what happens to all the money that is never given back due to people dying before the collect their state pension. As this is not the government’s money it should be paid to their families. The government are continually stealing money from the people of this country.

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  478. I am one of the 1954, ladies. I am please it is being addressed, I had not one notification when I was 60, to tell me no pension, I paid in 41 years contributions. Awaiting my pension come Sept!!! We shall see.Welldone.

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  479. I was one of the lucky ones, I only had to wait until I was 63, I’m now 66. But I will never see the money for the 3 hard years between being 60 and 63 . Was a struggle as I was made redundant at 58. Good luck girls on your side

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  480. I am so grateful to David Hencke for his role in the Back to 60 campaign. I am one of the affected women, & have worked long & hard my whole life & paid my full NI contributions. Fingers crossed they win the case! It certainly is discrimination at its worst.

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  481. I work in care I also suffer with fibromyalgia, I struggle now at the age of 58 , I cant claim my pension till I’m 67,I’m going to be older than some of the clients I care for! I have paid in all these years I may not reach longer past retirement age ! So the government steals my money ! Bring it down to 60 like it was,

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  482. Thank you to all the barristers who are fighting for all us ladies born in the 1950’s to get our due pensions it’s very much appreciated.

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  483. It certainly affected me I still have to work though not in the best of health. I’ll get my gov pension next October all being well. I was born 1954 worked all my life. I would like to thank you all very much for your fight for us women. I would retire tomorrow if I could. Much appreciated.

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  486. I am really pleased to hear there has been progress made and wish all continued success with this important t review. I like many others have been affected by the increased pension age and I know financially it is worrying.

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  487. Guy’s why can’t you cut us girls some slack. We’ve had your children we go through the menopause we look after the home and often do many more things to save money that would cost the government in other areas. Looking after elderly and infirm parents

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  488. I am pleased they are looking into it. I am 60 have had 2strokes and brain disease I am always tired but have to work as I can’t get benefits, my forecast for the future is I will not get better. I could have retired now but I am forced to work I worry about when I will have my next stroke and if it will totally immobilise me or worse

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  490. I went into to business in 2008 expecting to retire in 2016 it wasn’t til 2013 I found out the age was changed. Since I gave up my business in 2016, I have had ill health and instead of my pension I claimed esa which was £73 a week, under half of which my pension should be. I have worked for 45years it is not a benefit its my entitlement. That’s all I had to live plus a small work pension. I had money saved to pay for any house repairs and unexpected replacement of household items, but I have to use it to live on. I just pray my home doesn’t need any expensive repairs. I can’t see the government paying for it. It doesn’t pay to work in this country or own your on home. If you live in a council house and don’t work you get everything paid for.

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  491. This is brilliant news, as a woman born in the fifties I am there with you all the way.
    We worked hard for our pension, and it was misused by the government, which is why they changed the age.
    We have paid into the pension pot, and all these idiots who say it is a benefit are nuts, we paid simple as.
    Thank you for taking a stand.

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  492. I am pleased they are looking into it. I am 60 have had 2strokes and brain disease I am always tired but have to work as I can’t get benefits, my forecast for the future is I will not get better. I could have retired now but I am forced to work I worry about when I will have my next stroke and if it will totally immobilise me or worse thank you David hencke

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  493. I am 64 in July and still working unsocial hours because cannot retire until 66. Also have arthritis in knees. It may not be the point but fed up hearing about people saying they are better off on benefits than working. Might as well say they’ve already retired.

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  495. Yes I was born in 1951 but I had to wait till I was 62 .50 and I had worked nearly 40 years never been out of work since leaving school mrs j kelly

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  496. Well done to all i am 60 in september and had no letter ect to say i am not getting my pention when i am 60 no notifaction to tell me or worn me i had to sort out allternative funds my self as the goverment is not supplying pensions what i have pId my national insurance for since i was 16 ! My pention has been stolen from me !!

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  497. What happens to all us women that have had to work on to 65/66 do we get it back dated if this wins ??? Thank you to all who are working on this

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  500. At the age of 64 I still haven’t been informed about the changes to the state pension I found out on Facebook two months befor I was due to retire I wrote to works and pension to ask if it was true and to the Houses of Parliament and never even got a reply back I have worked all my life and payed a full stamp for over 40 years in good faith this government haven’t kept there part of the bargain it’s our money pay us back

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  503. I thank these women . i have worked as a nurse since i was 18 and only had 3months off when i had both my children . i am still a nurse struggling with 12hr shifts. I would welcome this change with open arms .

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  504. Fantastic we have work for years only to be told we wont get our pension for another 6 yrs maybe we will get a good outcome in this .well done everyone involved

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  506. Does this include women born in the 60’s? Why just the 50’s, I feel we have all been cheated. My plan was always to retire at 60. Worked since I was 16 so 40 years and counting.

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  507. Well done yous……I was born in 1955 and always thought I would retire at 60 not 66 and struggling with health issues!
    Seems to me our extra years working is needed to take care of the people who just take from society.

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  508. I have really lost out. My state pension should have been given to me last .month. Instead I have to wait until next May and I haven’t been given any notification.

    I have worked since I was 16. I am lucky that I.have a small pension but I am still working . and I am the main carer for my daughter who has complex mental health problems.

    It is totally unfair system. Particularly when we know other people have got it. Haven’t we paid our fair share. This goverment didn’t take.into account the type of jobs some women have to do.

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  509. Amazing result, let’s hope it comes to some answer soon. I have suffered I’ll health due to age , I have nursed my mother through dementia, and then watched my daughter die from cancer , and now have to help my son in law mine is children , but not as often as I should be able too because at 62 I am still working shifts .

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  511. Well done and thank you to the group that fought and raised this issue
    You have truly demonstrated that women can still challenge the system .
    A hundred years on and The Suffragettes are still fighting on!

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  513. Well done.Keep up the good fight.I am one of those woman in my sixties who through no fault of my own was made redundant and i am going to to after my baby granddaughter because her mammy has to return to work soon.I have no income at all.My husband is 63 and works hard to support me.Its just not fair.l have worked for 40years.What right has the government to treat us this way when they do not have to endure this hardship themselves.l whole heartedly give you my full support.

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  517. At last the DWP will have to answer the questions & be accountable for all this unfairness & hardship caused to us! I had to retire from my career at 61 yrs of age & cannot claim a penny I survive on a small NHS pension & help from my husband.

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  518. So glad this Judge has backed all these women who have been so badly treated by the governments treatment of women. I had no idea that this had been in parliament in 1995 !! They kept that quiet, if it had been heard about then the outrage & protests would have happening then, instead they kept this quiet from general public & let it slip in quietly. Congratulations to all the people who did all the work to get this review.

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  522. well done to you. all for working so hard on our behalf. i felt compelled to retire at 63 due to changes in my health. to help me retire i sold my home and moved to a smaller home.. Because i was a mum bringing up 3 children i worked part time until the children were older and i worked a lot more hours. my own career was secondary to ensure my children were cared for. Of course these decisions affect us now, and even more with the decision to make us work longer. I feel quite angry at the way the goverment have treated woman born in 54.

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  523. Well done to these women and their helpers who have been tenacious about this. It is an absolute travesty and robbery and this government, which I will never trust again, should be held to account. They have been ill advised. I thought civil servants were supposed to be intelligent people but they are just puppets with the ministers pulling the strings. As a midwife at one time working 15 hours a week as had four young children. I was told I could not join the NHS pension scheme but men working for the NHS for less than 15 hours could. Where was the justice in that?

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  524. Absolutely amazing. Like many I was not aware of the change until it was too late. I never received any notification which would would have given me time to save more money. Basically I could have been working 6/7 days a week when I was younger not now that I am almost 64 years old. This fight is very much appreciated.

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  525. Thank you for this most welcome information let us all hope that justice may at last be served. That women will now get access to the pensions they were promised when they joined the pension scheme.

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  526. Well done to everyone fighting our corner, I was born in January 1954 and have just retired at 65 and 5 months. Quite a few of my friends who were slightly older than me, retired at 60. I knew that pension age for women would have to be increased, but surely it could have been introduced in a fairer, gradual way.

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  528. I just want to point out you now need 45years NI or you don’t get the full pension. Not 40 years but no one tell you. Again was not informed. The job I was in I just couldn’t carry on as it was too physical and I’m sure many are in the same situation. I don’t like the words “it not fair” but in this case it’s not.

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  529. I am in my late 50,s and every year my age of retirement goes up by 2 years at the rate it goes up i will never be able to retire because the rate it goes up makes it out of reach so like America work until you drop. Just not right and there should be a way of fixing a date based on your birth year.

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  531. I am a victim 50s woman. I had to work till i was 65 and 3 months full time. Hard work. My legs killed me but i had to drag myself to work. I couldnt reduce my hours as im divorced and live alone. 50 years working in factories and care homes and only had my pension a few weeks ago. I will just about manage to get by . . good luck and thank you so much for representing us

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  533. Well done to all who have worked so hard for this thank you all 🤞🏻Here’s to the next stage 🤞🏻

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  534. I do hope we win the case as it would help our future. We had no idea what was going on so had no chance to react. Well done for all your hard work on our behalf and let’s hope we get what we are entitled to very soon. Thank you

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  536. Well done to us all who have supported this HUGELY bad decision by the greedy government.
    Here is to the judicial authority to gain a good result for us all
    THANK YOU

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  538. I hope it hoes bk to 60.i felt cheated when i heard i had to wait.plus im not in good health and need that money now nit in another 4 years time.

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  539. I am 62 and I was unaware that I would not be getting my pension at 60
    I have worked since I was 15 ty a friend who is a few years older than me had her pension yet never worked after the age of 18
    So unjust

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  540. Well done to all involved 👏👏
    I wasn’t misinformed, I wasn’t informed at all! I didn’t realise I wouldn’t be getting my pension until four years before my sixtieth birthday! My argument is that if we all new about these changes we could have topped up our pensions years ago or put something else in place 😡

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  541. Fantastic news I was born in 1955 & have worked since I was 13 (part time) full time from the age of 16 without a break. I have paid full contributions through out I felt like I had been ROBBED when I was not allowed my pension at 60 + 5 years deduction on my 12 yrs extra contributions when the law changed from 30 yrs to 35yrs for maximum contributions for full state pension payment. I can not begin to tell you the hardship this has caused me at this point in my life it was wrong for all the women who have worked hard all their lives to be treat in the way we were.

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  542. I have worked since the age of 15 taking only a few years off to raise my children. I then worked part time to fit around my children’s school hours. My husband worked through out this period so had no gaps in his pension. We divorced and I had a shortfall so have had to pay extra into my pension. I work full time and on my day off look after my grandchildren. My health is very poor after being diagnosed with osteoporosis and suffering 6 fractures in my spine a total hip replacement and fractured wrist. I am constantly in pain and have no quality of life but have to continue working for another 3 years. The money in our pension pot was used to prop up the government in Thatchers years. The men who are complaining did they bring up children shop clean cook with no payment then at a time when we should be able to enjoy our retirement are struggling with no money and health issues. Start looking after the people who have paid into their pensions for years and not give our money away to prop up your mistakes

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    • There is nothing worse than being in constant pain on top of everything else. I can understand why you feel cheated by the system and let’s hope you get justice in the end.

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  543. Hopefully all those affected get their pension at 60 rights reinstated. Should any compensation be granted it should be paid forthwith.
    The person responsible for imposing these changes retired with full pension leaving all those affected over £50,000 shortfall over the period covering ages 60 to 66. Some missed out on the cut off date by 1 month and have to wait 6 years. Men knew that they were not able to claim the pension until 65 years but accepted it.
    GIVE ALL WOMEN OVER 60 THEIR PENSIONS RIGHTS BACK WHICH WERE IMPOSED 23 YEARS AGO.

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  545. Hi. I just want to say thank you to the brave men and women who are fighting for me to have my pension rights. Good luck for future endeavours.

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  546. Thank you and well done to the legal
    team so far .
    I was born in 1956 and have been deeply affected by not receiving my pension at 60.

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  547. I have worked since 17 and still working at 61 as need my state pension to retire. We should be, allowed to take our pensions, according to the contributions we have paid, including men.

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  550. I am one of the women who has to workbuntil i am 66.i am now 64 and feel it was so unjust when they raised the age from 60 to 66 not only that people not working get the same pension as me. I look at what i have lost from my pension over the 6 years i was so glad they won the right to be heard

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  552. You either pay benifits to young people because there are no jobs, or put retirement age back to where it should be, thus freeing up jobs for young folk. If you keep us working for another 6 years, the young leaving school,college or University will be 6 years older before getting a job and have 6 more years school,college,university looking for the same jobs

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  553. Has anyone pointed out that when I started work in 1972 I,as a female was not allowed to join my company’s pension scheme (this was legal then!!) and one of the reasons women got a pension earlier than men.

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  554. Great news for all of us 50’s women who thought we would retire at 60 and had the goal posts moved to save the government money.

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  556. Thanks for fighting for my pension rights when the first time I knew about it it was too late to do anything. I stayed at home and looked after my children and when I worked it was not equal pay for the sexes. Hope we win on principal and are not bullied. Many thanks.

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  557. I’m 63 I have thyroid trouble vitiligo psoriasis my body has been 75% covered thank goodness for the injections which keeps it stable, I have psoric arthritis and I’m ostioporic I have diverticulitis and iratable bowel syndrome I also have quite a few allergies anemia and I have had a stent in the main artery in my heart and the list goes on can I retire no I could not afford to take one out when I was younger as my husband had a good few jobs trouble was he kept getting made redundant I had no letter telling me about the change in pension age am I angry yes I am we have worked for our pension many haven’t those who have fooled the government claiming sickness and still working those on the dole still working the government wants us to die before claiming our rightful pension

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  558. The pension age should come down for both men and women, not go up!!! This would free up jobs for all the people who don’t/won’t work and claim benefits. If you haven’t paid in to the system then you shouldn’t be able to get any benefits. People over 60 have paid into the system for over 40 years give them the well deserved happy retirement at 60 or 63 let the choice be theirs!

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  560. Well done ladies at least someone stood up to the injustice this government has obviously carried out to save money its laughable to use equality to suit themselves. Why bot the other way and let men retire at 60 then tbh. These fools have being stupid enough to think woman born in the 50s are stupid. Leta make MPs work till retirement age then if its about equality abd justice tbh.

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  562. I agree totally that this has been further discrimination for women. Many of us have worked since leaving school at 15yrs old and yet have been made to work 6 or 7 years longer. Youth today have opportunities that keep them at college and university for years. And yet women are expected to fill in these years by doing extra years.
    I am tired. I don’t know how long I have left to be retired. But I do know years and pension payments have been taken away from me after I have worked so hard for my country for years as well as bringing up my children as expected.

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  564. Congratulations what a great victory so far for women born in the 50s who had no choice but to work instead of retiring at 60. It has had a massive impact on these women who had no knowledge of how to fight against Parliament’s decision to move the state pension age to 65. Good luck for the review and thank you.

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  566. Well done so glad I had the opportunity to sign the petition to help get things rolling. I still have to work due to the pension age and am now unwell and by rights I should have retired. This was not thought about what this decision would do to many women.

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  567. I am now 62 years old, by the time I receive my government pension I will have worked 51 years full time with no breaks to raise children,this surely is enough already.

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  568. So if I was born in 1959 this would be relevant.
    But if I was born in between 1960 and now then the pension age for women will be longer .
    How is this fair if it is back to sixty then this should be for all women also if this is passed will the women who missed the deadline to reach 60 be getting a refund .
    I for one have paid into the pot since 1977 only finishing work for a couple of months after having my children .
    I also work full time and help to look after my grandchildren .

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  570. Well done backto60 and your legal team fighting this injustice on behalf of so many women who are affected by this pension decision. The misinformed changes to the increases as the years have gone by is a disgrace – how can any government say this is fair and just? Admitting it’s a penny pinching exercise is infuriating whilst giving themselves a pension term at 1/40th of final salary per year of service Why don’t they look at this in parliament and bring it to 1/80th like most of us. This will help find the money to compensate us!! So proud of you all and good luck.

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  571. Brilliant news ! A raging injustice that desperately needs to be put right . In an age where Government Ministers don’t care one iota about ordinary people, “fair play “ has gone totally – And the Government have the effrontery to still try and present a case instead of agreeing that this is something that needs to be put right . Let’s not forget that this same parliament agreed to ‘wipeout ‘ £17000 worth of unpaid bar bills of M.P.s last month !

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  572. The changes to women’s pensions is immoral.
    The government changed the number of years to pay National Insurance from 30 to 35 years!
    I paid full National Insurance For 47years I choose not to take the “married women’s reduced payment” and always paid the full NI contribution. I retired taking my private pension at 63 as my health was deteriorating I have just found out I have to pay A lump sum contribution to get a full state pension at 67 Why? I am told because all contributions are now ignored and a 30 yr credit of contributions was allocated to me with the introduction of the new pension rules so as I left work 4 yrs before my state pension is due I am now short of the 35years I need to claim my full pension at 67 and will need to pay hundreds of pounds to cover the missing years. This is a ludicrous situation. I was totally unaware of this until I went on the government website. Why was I never told. These contributions have been stolen from me by legislation. I advise others in a similar situation to check how they are affected

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  573. Thanks to those who have worked to get this far. They thought women were a soft touch. Women historically and still earn less than men so any pensions are less. We have had time out to have children and looked after aging relatives. In my generation many women haf to sacrifice their careers to support husbands or partners.
    Let justice be done

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  574. As an affected female it is good to know that someone is able to challenge this despicable decision on behalf of women
    I wish them every success

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  575. All I receive now is a £95 per month work pension and a carers allowance for my husband.what sort of life is that for someone who has always worked. Right back to having a Saturday job whilst at school.why have we been punished having always paid into the system .

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  576. Mortality and morbidity rates have always differed, it is true that statistically men die younger, and that women experience worse health issues, they have also earned less than men, and not only have many had childcare responsibilities, but also had to provide the care of elderly parents often with dementia free of charge as the State system does not support this adequately, further affecting their pay.

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  577. Well done and thank you for getting this far and hope that we win the day.
    My health has deterioated over the past year and i work and juggle inbetween to look after my grandson, i want my money that i have paid in so i can enjoy quality time with my family before my health deteriorates more which it most likely will. This is a disgrace if it was money that we owed them would they
    Like to wait 6 or 7 years for it, i so dont think so.

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  587. I am delighted born in 1954 I worked from 14 part time then full time from 19 Cancer at the age of 60 has left me in I’ll health and unnecessary stress threw having to keep working

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  588. Thank goodness – I was born in 1960 and always believe I would get my pension next year when I am 60 as I have worked and paid in for 44 years when I reach that age. I could not believe having paid in all those years that I have to wait 7 more years / my health is not good and doing think I’m capable. In my opinion it should not matter if your make or female- if you’ve paid your contributions you are entitled to that pension it’s criminal what the Government have done and ruined many lives

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  589. I have been planning my retirement for over two decades as advised by the government, and they have stolen 6 years of the finances i had planned on to make sure I did no have to rely on benefits in my dotage! I had planned on having a retirement whereby if I was incapacitated, I would be able to maintain my independence both mobility and financial, in my own bought and paid for home, not social housing, but now I will have to work well into my 70’s to make up the shortfall this theft has created. I don’t have a husbands pension or children to help me out, so feel abandoned, to just ‘cope’ alone, and get on with it, after planning for so long! Maybe I should have become one of the leaches that just had baby after baby, never worked a day, claimed benefits and lived in Council property’s all my life, had all the maintenance from father after father of said children to build up a pension so I can smoke, drink and go on multiple holidays year after year, without earning a penny toward any of it,.. I think maybe I have been fraudulently and naively conned by the MP’s who fleece the people of this country claiming for second homes, private schooling for their offspring, first class travel, fancy clothes, handouts from people who influence their income by Government greed and corruption! All I ask for is the money I have paid into the State Pension system for the last 42 years of full time employment,.. in the RAF, and NHS,.. not exactly untraceable, and for the good of the Public I work for, and Her Majesty the Queen!

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  592. Fantastic news that’s the first hurdle over. We deserve it our pensions were illegally taken from us. Massive thank you for your support on this case so far.

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  594. About time this was sorted out and pensions and back money was paid to women born in the 50s.
    Money is being withheld to which we are intitled to.
    I am one of these women. I am nearly 63 but wont get my state pension until 2022, however according to the DWP website, I have 42 years paid up contributions. The mininum to enable you your pension is 35 years, so, so far I have overpaid by 7 years but still have to wait another 3 for a payout.
    The other thing about it is that according to the DWP, my pension forecast will not change if I continue to work and pay NI contributions!
    By my calculations they are withholding nearly £50,000 and that is just for me, what about the other 4 million women in the same boat.
    Get it sorted and paid out, so we can enjoy our retirement without having to worry about whether we have enough to live.
    Thank you ladies for fighting our corner for us.

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  595. Let’s hope this is a win. They have no idea the deprivation to people who did not get their pension.
    Well done to legal teams who will work tiredlessly for the benefit of others.
    Also the main steering group who continued to fight for all if us.
    Thank you so much.

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  599. I retired in December 2018 due to ill health.
    I am 64 years old. Worked 25 years for NHS. I don’t have a partner to support me. I am not entitled to any benefits apart from free prescriptions and 25% reduction in council tax. I am expected to live on less than £200
    a month. I have well over 40 years national insurance contributions. Am I missing something here?

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  600. This is great news our voices have been ignored for too long .., this really has been an injustice & needs to be rectified!!
    Thank you so much to the back to 60 group for arguing our case.

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  602. Will this mean we are entitled to claim back money that should have been paid. I had to wait 9 months after reaching 60 to get my pension?

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  605. If the govt want to raise the pension age so be it, but it should be from the date they announce it for all new workers not people already working as we started on a contract to retire at 60 !! Some of us have health conditions and struggle to work and age 60 seems a long way off but to work now till I am 67 is heart breaking I do not know how i am going to do it, but I have too. I work for the DWP and it is a kick in the guts.

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  606. I have worked since I was 14 and I am 63 think our ladies have been age discriminated not to have received our pensions at 60 years age we need to keep fighting

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  607. It goes beyond equalizing with men. I am 65yrs in a few weeks time and I have to work another year! Instead of 60yrs I will be 66yrs. I will have paid national insurance for 50yrs. No extra pension! Not only is it cost cutting it is hoping many will die before retirement. Now Boris Johnson wants to reward those with pensions over £50,000 pa when so many single women are just wanting to get their meager state pension of around £8,500pa. Give the reward to those who have worked long and hard and still cant get what they have paid into.

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  608. Ohh i hope you win as some days i cant see myself being able to carry on working until im 67. i have always struggeld with mental health problems but always thought i would make my self keep going until i was sixty then the goverment decided to change it without informing me. They should hang their heads in shame.

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  609. I am one of those affected I should have had my pens by now but they put it up 2 weeks before I could collect my pension
    I am 100 percent behind you on this what happened to our pen money

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  610. At least this is a step in the right direction.. I’m sur don’t ever remember having and information about the pension age going up at all now I’m going on 64 have to wait another 2 years for pension and like many women Have lost thousands and thousands of pounds

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  612. If the rise in pensionable age had been a gradual increase it would not have impacted so much on us ladies born in the 50’s. But to just say from now you have to work 5yrs longer b4 you are entitled to your state pension was and is disgusting. I only missed getting mine at 60 by 2/3wks and I had to wait till I was 65+3 b4 I got it….so in my case I personally lost approx £46,600 absolutey disgusting 😡

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  613. How I would love to have retired at 60 I’m tired and weary. it’s bad enough being a a house wife and mother for years and then to carry on working till I’m 65 years 8 months 3 weeks and 4 days before I get my pension

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  614. I’m so pleased about this. It always seemed wrong that my pension was put back from 60 to 63. Then again to 66. Im lucky that l can still work, but its very hard for some women. I do hope we win.

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  615. I’m so pleased about this. It always seemed wrong that my pension was put back from 60 to 63. Then again to 66. Im lucky that l can still work, but its very hard for some women. I do hope we win.

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  616. This is good to hear. Well done to the back to 60s. I am 62 and worked all my life and still having too despite having osteoarthritus, ME and fibromyalgia. I am absolutely exhausted. I budgeted for a retirement at 60. I have to keep working. I can not get any benefits despite my health problems. The government just want to work us till we drop and save money.!

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  618. Fantastic news, I was born in 1960 and I now have to work until I’m 67, I’m an Asthmatic and was looking forward to retiring g at 60.
    I believe the review should lower it back to 60, we’ll have people firing in work it not fare you work all your life and pay into a pot for your pension and the goal post is moved every time.

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  619. The 6-7yr hike is a carrot dangled too far for many of us who started work very early ( I worked part time from 13 because I was tall therefore older looking)! It’s hit the singletons hardest with no S.O. to fall back on and don’t get me started about health issues!! Women in general tend to be compliant & understanding & a 2 year hike would probably have been acceptable to many but 6-7years when youve already worked 45yrs & brought kids up in the yuppy years with no help, no childcare support no nurseries!

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  620. I have been severely affected
    The company I worked for closed down simultaneously with my original pension age of 60
    I had no work related pension from my job as mental health support worker for over 20 years
    I found myself being bullied and humiliated in the job centre
    Also feeling burnt out and worn out by the years mental pressure
    Not qualified for a different job
    Companies not wanting to retrain a 63 year old
    Me not up to it
    Hounded
    Belittled
    Humiliated
    Burnt out
    Exhausted
    Poor

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  621. I have to now work till I am 67/68 I can’t imagine doing my line of work till then I think they should lower everyone’s back and give you the choice to continue if you want to

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  622. Brilliant news! Neve ever thought there was a possibility the nightmare could become a dream. Thank you so much for all the hard work and tenacity.

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  623. we have always worked for 35 plus years . now we are foster carers for 3 kids plus grandparents to 5 kids . surely we are entitled to something back as we are now in our 60s .

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  624. Well done .
    I thank you all from the bottom of my heart . I no we still got a long way to go .
    But what Government don’t see is the laber heavy work. That lots of woman do ( example kitchens )
    I am 60 in August this year
    And already paid in full 44 yrs full
    National insurance.
    We are taking away young people’s rights .to work because we are made to work another 6 years .
    Would not have minded if they said work extra one or two years
    But 6 is a big jump , they should have to gradually
    Thanks Mrs Amanda Weston

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  625. So far so good. I never thought it would get this far I’m so happy with the outcome so far. I want to thank everyone that has been involved getting it to this stage. Good luck for the next stage. Many many thanks Diane

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  626. It’s disgraceful how this government has treated women born in the fifties . We never had a chance to sort anything out plus they had an extra 3 years contribution from us which didn’t make much difference to our state pension.

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  628. I hope the outcome wont take too long…worked all my life apart from the first 4 years of my sons life…..was looking forward to retirement but am still working!!!!! Gets harder every day

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  629. I had to give up work due to circumstances- one being my daughter has a disability and also due to my own health. I have lost 6 years of pension as I don’t get mine until I am 66. I am 63. I never received any notification of this. I cant thank you enough for all your hard work.

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  630. Wonderful achievement by WASPI and Back to 60.
    As a November 1954 baby,I anticipate receiving my state pension in December 2020,providing the goalposts aren’t moved again October 2020…I feel like I’m chasing the “finish line”!
    Surely the basis for equality is nothing to do with age but years contributed. In my case 1971 to 2012 full employment and credits for grandparent care credits 2012 to April 2018 is 47 years of contributions ( includes catch up payments in 1982 to cover small stamp contributions in the 70s).
    I was aware from media the retirement age for state pension was to rise to 62 and made financial provisions to retire and help look after grandchildren and elderly mum, but now have very little savings as I’ve lived on them for more than 2 years with another year and a half to go, so here’s the choice as I see it:
    Keep the age to 62 or 40 years full contributions, to remedy the mess DWP have made and increment to 64 years then to 66 .
    As has been said by others, a lot of claims for benefits for childcare and top up payments for low incomes would be saved.
    Not least the stress and worry caused to the women who have done NOTHING WRONG.

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  631. Had I been given my pension at 60 I would of been able to manage to live comfortably , but as my husband died when I was 59 I lost my job as they took me to tribunal I was nursing my husband with cancer , unfortunately he died two weeks after they finished me , so after 22 years working for social services they finished me with no pay off just 30 days notice and Iv not claimed any monies , have had to live on savings , I am now entitled to pension in my own right but six years is a lot to steal from us after 42 yrs full time work and paying full stamp

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  632. I’ve just turned 60 in April there’s no way I can retire as I still have a small mortgage and no savings had projection of wok pension 225 .00 a year a joke also if they take away the state pension which there try I’m sure .I will never be able to retire I’ve worked from age of 16 yrs old 2yrs off to have my children

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  633. Great news. I was originally told 63 then they changed their minds and it was increase to 65years 11months and 10days. I paid a full stamp my whole working life. I had to retire at 63 due to ill health and caring for husband, so since then I have only received carers allowance however even though I will continue to care for my disabled husband I lose carers allowance when I eventually receive my pension.

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  635. I was born in July 1954 and have to wait until May 2020 for my state pension.My husband born June 1953 recieved his pension on his 65th birthday!how is that equality???.

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  636. This is great news, absolutely the right the right thing. It was never about women being equal with men, it was about the unfair and discriminatory way this change to pensions was introduced. Hopefully the judicial review will rule in favour of the many thousands of women who have been adversely affected by these changes

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  637. I had breast cancer three years ago, am 62 in November and am struggling to carry on working. This is not fair!

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  638. Can you please explain to me why it’s women born in the 50s and not the 60s as well? I was born in 1960 and not sure why it can’t be the same for 60s women as well. I’m only 11 months older.

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  639. So glad it’s being taken on as it is robbery of the common people . I’m 57 and have worked for 41 years don’t think I could take another 10 years . Please turn the age back to 60.

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  642. I am 60 this year. I have considerable health problems. Who knows if I or infact many other woman will live to 66 to claim any pension. My Husband died suddenly of an aggressive brain tumour 8 years ago when he was 50. We had been together since we were age 14 and he worked all his life paying into the pot. I don’t get any widows pension like you used to do from all those years. This must happen to so many people these days where neither one makes the pension age and all the money they have paid in goes Elsewhere. 😡

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  643. Well done to the legal team I should have had my pension 3 years ago instead they raised the age even higher,without consultation with those who it would have an impact on. It’s a step in the right direction

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  646. Well done and I hope that taking this to court overturns what is just an austerity measure. It makes a welcome change that government can be challenged by “pedant people” no one should be afraid of challenge. Here’s hoping this will have a knock in effect for men. I should be collecting my state pension at 65 in December but have to wait another year to December 2020.

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  647. Well done!! Women were ill informed and have rarely been paid equally with men. We are also the main carers for our parents and granchildren.
    Many of us are having to work again to make ends meet. We have paid NI all our life! They have admitted it was to cut costs.
    Stay stryand meet campaigning.

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  648. I struggle to work being disabled and have to be one of the people born in the 50s I really was looking forward to retirement at 60 but no we are expected to work till we drop that is what is expected that we die not much longer after we retire. I have worked since I was 14 and now deserve a rest to enjoy other things in life hope we get the justices we deserve

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  649. Well done to the women doing this , i struggle with my back due to wear and tear as i have always been a carer and i cannot see myself being able to work until im 67 which is another 12 years away .when i met my husband who is 10 years older than myself we worked out that he would only be retired 5 years before me , now with all the changes he will be retired 11 years before me and by the time i retire he will be 77 , it’s just not right.

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  650. I am really pleased that at last this problem is going to looked into properly. This should never have been allowed to happen in the first place. Women never retire like a man does she still runs the home & in a lot of homes she sorts all bills out etc etc on a much reduced income.

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  651. This is brilliant! I got my state pension at 64 and I was one of the ” luckier ” ones ! I nearly passed out when I worked out how much I’d lost. I continue to work and am penalised by having that pension taxed !

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  652. I had to finish work at 60 which was last year with health problems. I’m leaving on practically nothing a bit of a NHS pension. There is no way I could work till 66 and nine months So Nearly 67 years old. Just hope we get somewhere. Thank you to everybody that has appealed to fight this.

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  653. I had to finish work at 60 which was last year with health problems. I’m leaving on practically nothing a bit of a NHS pension. There is no way I could work till 66 and nine months So Nearly 67 years old. Just hope we get somewhere. Thank you to everybody that has appealed to fight this.

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  654. Well done to the ladies who fought for this for a lot of us, you should be so proud of yourselves. Government would be better stopping payouts to themselves and give us what is rightfully ours so we can live

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  655. This is an amazing achievement. I am excited to see the next stage unfold in 5 weeks’ time. Well done to all who have persevered with this.

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  656. Thank you all in the Backto60 campaign for taking this case to the High Court all too often discrimination is by stealth and never gets the airtime nor seen as the serious breath of trust women have placed in successive governments to do the ‘right thing ‘to redress this inequality. At last we have an opportunity to do just that ! It was expected not to succeed how gracious to allow an extension to the appeal time of an extra 28 days .

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  658. I am 63, worked since i was 15, i now have to work until i am 66 which is absolutely disgusting plus i am taking up a job that somebody younger would benefit from. Something has to be done.

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  659. I understand that at some point In the last 20 years. I suspect Gordon Brown and labour. Given his tax raid on company pensions. Which saw their destruction. The government reduced their contribution to the National Insurance scheme. Which has led to the rationale behind the need to make savings. Under the guise of sustainability. We already get some of the smallest pensions in the world’s a developed country.

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  661. It is very encouraging to know that the Judge has come down on side of Women born in 50’s with much thanks to Waspi’s and other women fighters of Women’s Rights. Eventually with their inexaustive battle against Government/DWP, justice might just be seen to be done… Bravo to our Women fighters!

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  662. Costly – but so is Boris Johnson’s promise to raise the 40% threshold to £80k. And this would at least benefit a group of people who need some help.

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  663. Can’t believe fantastic news just the fact that someone actualy realises that we were robbed & cheated fantastic news.

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  666. Surely the reason women were paid pensions five years earlier than men was because in many marriages the man is older, therefore couples got their pensions more or less at the same time. My wife who is one of the worst affected being born November 54 is married to me who turned 70 last year. I actually retired at 62 due to ill health and got a state pension at 65 but I will be 72 when my wife receives hers.

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  667. Hooray it’s about time someone listened to us & helped us in this disgraceful manner ,we women born in the 50’s have been treated – If Michael Gove can exhonarate himself from taking drugs & expect the public to cheer for him to be our next pm!!! I (personally would like to see him trialed & charged for his offence )like us lay men would be -Then why the hell should us women keep quiet & let people like this determin our lives & drive us into poverty by keeping our right ful monies we have worked hard all our growing lives for !!
    “Perspective “ Please !

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  669. I can not believe the sums of money that have been wasted on this Brexit fiasco … which just appears to be MPs covering themselves.
    I worked for over 47 years often doing two jobs and expected to receive my pension at 60 I am now approaching 65 and living on fresh air … I have tried to get meaningful work but am finding it harder and harder to do the hours required to pay my way.
    My savings are almost gone and selling my house is not really an option as I can not afford to rent anywhere similar ( one bed flat ) Just give us what we are due. I have never received any notification officially of any change to my expected pension.

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    • The government happy to spend BILLIONS ON BREXIT AND HAPPY TO STEAL FROM THE LADIES TO PAY FOR IT…… ITS ALL WRONG.. SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE UK…….

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  672. Great news but it is just saying 50s women I hope they add those born early part of 60s too as it raised 7 yrs since we started . So very wrong ….
    Good luck winning this … I always said as it went up it should only be for those starting their working life it the year it went up … not after working years knowing it was 60 then adding 5 yrs then another and another !

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  673. Well done I hope you win and this is reviewed for all women , I will be watching what is going on as this affects my life , thank you

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  674. This is a big step in the right direction for all us ladies that this effects , myself I was born 10/05/1955 I am
    Just 64 now so have struggled for the last 4 yrs with still another 2 to go , I really hope this case comes to a win for us all as we were not warned about this as the government say we were I certainly wasn’t good luck to all the ladies involved my justice prevail

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  675. Thank goodness for the hope of for once getting some justice from this result. The government needed to save money so simply stole the pensions from women who spent the vast majority of their working lives being discriminated in the workplace by being paid significantly less than men. We are now asked to work on
    for another six years in an age discriminating workplace where businesses are closing and jobs are dwindling at an alarming rate… This govermnent is immoral in discriminating against working women who have not been able to earn enough to build up a viable alternative pension . All women and men who have worked 45+ years paying into and trusting in the state pension system should vote with their feet at the next election. Make the silver vote count.

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  677. Dont think its right just for 60’s women it should apply to everyone thats worked o theyre days its shocking expecting people to work to 67 a want tae Enjoy a bit a LIFE wae my grandkids give everyone the opportunity if they want to work on but this day and age people r getting worked into the ground which is causing ill health so for this 50’s women thats crap should b getting fought for everyone

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    • those born 1950’s/60’s started school at 15/16 will have done 50-51 yrs for State Pension when told all working life it was 60. I love you young people after all I have one myself. But when you leave Uni you are so much older than we were before you start paying National Insurance
      If you start at say 21 add 35 = makes you 56yrs so they are making you work longer till 67 to get you in line with us.
      I actually do not think anyone should work after 60 unless they are fit to do so and then to chose something when the’yre around 40 (then that they stand a chance of carrying on later in life)
      I do thin some of those on here are detractors with a vested interest in the financial pensions industry.

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  678. And so it begins. Women do have, and should have a voice and Government ministers, especially female ‘s should be listening. Thank you to M.M. so far

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  680. As a 64 year old female who has worked since I was 16 I feel very unhappy that I have to work until 66 before I receive my state pension. This was not the case when I started work all those years ago.The goalposts were moved without any consultation. Its totally unfair 😞😞😞

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  681. This is wonderful news. Well done. I was born in 1955 & am certainly suffering the consequences of having no pension.

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  682. It is my 65th birthday today……….will i get 5 years of pension back dated to my 60th birthday ………..it is mine by right as i have paid into the system since i started work at 18

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  683. SO pleased about this. I and many others of my age feel utterly cheated by the government. I am 65 this September and can not claim my pension until 2 weeks before my 66 th birthday. I was led to believe by the government when I started work at 16 that I would be able to retire at 60. So very unfair I have to carry on working after all these years

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  684. Thank goodness we at last have a judge hearing our plight and the injustice we suffer. Let’s trust for speedy settlement and compensation to aliviate hardship in austere times.

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  686. Lets take this right back to basics: a female born in the 50’s grows up and starts work. At that point there is a contract between them and the government- that if they pay in their dues for a given number of years they will receive a full state pension at age 60.
    That is it – a contract.
    Men and women understand what a contract is . end of story.

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  687. About bloody time. This has been so unfair, unjust and we have been penalised because we are women and born in the1950’s

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  688. I am so pleased about this as I am a 50 women and would be retired by now well done all off you it’s is disgusting how they have put the age up it means for me I will.have to work till I am nearly 67 what a great achievement what you have all done

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  689. Well done to the legal team and campaigning groups. I was born on the 23/04/54 so this has impacted on me.
    Will be great to get further updates.

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  690. So glad to hear that someone has the common sense to listen to women birn in the 50s . When i left school & started working at 16 years old i was led to believe i would retire at 60. Well thats only 2 weeks away – something i looked forward to after working for the last 44 years & paying into the system. Ive had to cut my hours to look after my elderly parents / i am their prime carer & on top of this i help with childcare for my grandkids. Instead of finding my life becoming a bit easier im just going from day to day trying to hold it together. Not fir my sake but for everyone else. My money shouldnt be going to help fund the government’s finances – it should enable me to be able to retire & be there for my parents & grandkids. After all by doing this im also saving the government in carers etc. About time they played fair

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    • I total agree with you I’m still working I have had operations on both shoulders and elbows it was better but getting worse as I’m still pulling heavy trolleys even if I got another job at 61 not so easy and waiting on another operation for hernia plus I do four 8 hour days and three 10/12 hours taking care of my grandkids if I didn’t have to work it would make things a bit easier .

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  691. Well done to these people for fighting our cause.. I was born in 1955, I have worked all my life, even part time when my children were small, and raising children is not an easy job, although these were days I cherished. I am still working full time, I will be 64 in July. I still have 2 years to work. But I am tired now and learning new procedures every day within my workplace is getting harder. I need to retire sooner, and if these good people can give me that I would be forever grateful

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  692. Thank you to all those who have got us this far. We have been treated badly and no one seemed to care. Now there is hope.

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  693. Back in 2013 I was send a letter to say if I had been born before April 1953 I was going to get my pension at 60, unfurtunately for me I was born in October 1953 hence I lost 5 years of pension. It’s disgusting that after paying a stamp for 38 years I had to lose out of approx £40.000. I also Fostered for 15 years and looked after 38 Children saving the Country 100 of thousands of pounds that otherwise would have cost to put this Children in Care Homes.

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  694. The Government are attacking us with a two pronged devil – not only have they moved the age to receive state pension but they have also moved how much contributions of national insurance are needed to be entitled to a FULL pension. You are now expected to have a full record up till your age of retirement – the idea of only needing 30 or 35 years paid up is now an illusion – a dream – now you must have 100% paid up till the day you retire. I have only one year where I am short and so will not be getting a full pension (it’s about £10 a week less than full pension. I was not allowed to make it up with voluntary contributions as it was more than 6 years ago. Also grandparents can claim carers contributions if you are looking after your grandchildren (even if its part time) It’s a simple application form signed by yourself and your son/daughter found on the Gov.uk site. Also please please check your pension and national insurance contributions on this site too – you may be in for a shock like I was!!! We must continue to fight for our rights – thank you backto60 and Waspie for all you are doing!!

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  695. Until the duration of a generation have received equal pay, the introduction of both sexes reaching the goal post or finishing at the same age target, it will often remain as an unfair playing field for a majority with the exception of some who have been fortunate to have employment with benefits to help.

    Men can sustain employment and achieve and reach higher up the scale increments for consistent employment whereas many women have to settle for rejoining on a lower rung of the ladder following childbirth unless fortunate to have reduced income in maternity pay or time out of employment as a consequence so opportunities for many women in many cases are much less.

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  696. No notice given… I am 60 (this week)…I have had to go out and get a new job… for 6 more years…I have paid into the system since I was 16….people come into our country and get money easy enough…why are us as women being penalised..government saving money on the backs of women… should fight it all the way !!!!…. thank you for doing so on our part !!!!

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  697. So will that mean if the ladies win the day , the pension I missed out on for three yrs will be refunded to me , and all of us who had to wait the extra yrs already for ours ,

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  698. Thats fantastic news for women who are struggleing to carry on working well into there 60’s working from 14 or 15 years of age if thay wanted to level the playing field thay could have brought men’s retirment age down to sixty what do thay think we are robot’s well done 60’s women

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  699. Im 60 and classed as a pensioner when i go places and reduced rates

    I claim ESA as i am unable work wouldnt it be better to pay my pension that i have paid into rather the pay me ESA

    I was told several years ago that i had paid pension upto date and now was for it to go in a pot what pot i dont know

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  701. Good for them I hope they are successful, women do so much for this world and are given so little credit for their hard work. Keeping a home is more than most people would care to do , let alone keeping her home and working outside the home!!!

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  703. Another answer to this would be to reduce mens retirement age to 60 and that will free up employment prospects for the young

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  704. Thanks to the women who are putting this forward. How come government members can retire early and get a big fat pension yet working class people got to work until 66 I am 62 this year I have worked from the age of 15 I would like to retire and enjoy the rest of my life not just working

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    • Hi. Just read the comments above.i also am 62 and have worked since i was 15 years old.I have had many many health problems in my life and continue to do so. If i got my pension now i can spend whats left of my life in more comfortable surroundings.mrs burns.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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  705. Yes but if they win this case will they really back pay all of us that have had to work 3-5 years more and I personally will have lost approx £45,000.00 in unpaid pension that i would have been entitled to had I been able to claim this at 60 rather that 65 and 9 months

    Even a portion pro rata of our delayed pension would be good

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  706. I have put into my country all my working life and strongly object at being forced to work to the age of 66 through no fault of my own. If your work environment is copable and you have the health and desire to work over and above pensionable age I have no problem with that. It should be OUR choice! Being forced into a situation where the younger generation can’t get employment because we are being forced to work longer is WRONG. Let them benefit from working and allow us the benefit of leisure time before it’s too late for us.

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  708. I was born in 1960 and at 59 I’m self employed and I will have to work till I’m 66 it’s not what sex lives longer it’s about the sustainability of being able to work. I have had two children that because of divorce I brought up largely on my own. I have a very physical job and look after my two grandchildren twice a week as my daughter has to work, like most couples. There was nothing wrong with 60 and 65 for men. I am now married and we are both the same age so neither of us get the state pension till we are 66 and yet we are both paying in for a further 6 years. I have just had two new knee replacements that I had to fight to get because I could hardly walk. So the prospect of another 6 years is not pleasant. It is very unfair. The trouble with the powers that be in parliament is that they give money to things that are just not as important. The NHS and the elderly need to be seriously looked at.

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  709. How do I get actively involved in this with other women? I feel so angry about this. I’m almost 64 and having to work three 12 hour night shifts 1-1 support work. My arthritis is painful and I’m tired.

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  710. This is great news, it is time to put right the massive injustice done to these women.
    I wholeheartedly support this action.

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  711. Go ladies , the benefits to younger women being able to get jobs , bring men’s age down to 60 will do the same for young men

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  713. I’m so pleased that this will be pursued. Equal pay was not granted at that time we were unable to contribute to a personal pension as men so we are left with low income in our golden years

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  714. It’s interesting the Government claims to be concerned about gender equality. Shame they don’t tackle the inequality in pay with such vigour!! Well done and good luck.

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  715. Well done backto60 as I have worked since I was 15 and I did hear a mumble about having to work until I’m 65 never mind 66 but no one told me this was actually happening I was never informed about any of it so I’m 64 and still working so please for all women born in the 50s please keep going with this thank you

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  717. Great news.I am a 50 ‘s women I have worked hard while bringing up a family.I am still working even though having been recently diagnosed with Osteoperosis.I work in the care sector and find it very difficult now.I have never received any letter to tell me about the changes.

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  719. Fight for justice for us please wee depend on you I am so I’ll should not be working but I have to just to live thank you Elizabeth grsy

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  722. I was born Nov 1960 so this will not apply to myself, I just lose out.
    I got to work now to 66 years and 8 months I’m really sick.
    I do care and due to population living longer it is harder.
    I use hoists a lot.

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  725. Well done to all who are pressing forward. Personally, lost out in 3ways, emigrated to Canada, frozen pension. Born in 1959 and raised 3sons alone. Became a widow 5years ago- my husband paid Into British Pension for 45years – now no Survivor Pension.

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  726. I just received my state pension the 10 th of June 2019 and I’m 65 and 5 months years old was born 1954 so you don’t get your pension on the day you are 65 you get it 5 months after so they have stolen 5 years and 5 months from my state pension thank you David Hench and all the women that are fighting for the back to 60 we are all with you 👍xx

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  727. Thank you a little light at the end of tunnel am 64 am being kept by my husband who is still able to work couldn’t carry on with my job to heavy lifting long hours and on feet too long

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  728. I hope they win while I belive the retirement age should be equal for both men & women the way the government imposed this on women Already in their fiftys was very wrong it shoud have only affected school leavers joining the work place thus giving them the time to prepare unlike these women who had no time to prepare,

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  729. This decision devastated me. I had been led all my working life to believe I would retire at 60. In the end when the goal post was moved I just gave up. Mentally and physically I was too tired to carry on. Not withstanding that I along with others have lost thousands of pounds you could say it was stolen from us. £18.000 in my case alone. Highway robbery. At least Dick Turpin sat on a horse with a gun in his hand. These goverment knew what they were doing when it was passed quietly through. Those same pexpletives that would retire at sixty with their pensions in tack. Shame on the politicians that voted this through.

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  730. I feel this a huge step forward for the injustice the 1950s women have endured. I have contributed to the Waspi campaign and been on 2 demonstrations to London and been on local TV twice. I would like to say thanks to everyone who has worked tirelessly to get this far. It must also be the longest campaign in history. I just hope we win.

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  733. I am a female 65yrs old I was born in 1954, I am still unable to collect my pension until Sept 2019. I have paid Full N.I. for 42yrs, I feel very cheated , why should the government keep over 5yrs of the money ( over Forty thousand pounds) I am entitled to, I have worked most of my adult life , only time off was when having children, Will we get this back paid?

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    • Hi Sue, I was also born in 1954 on 6th December, the cut off date they set for not getting pension until 66 was those born after 5th December, just my luck to miss out yet again.

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  734. So that’s good news but what about those of us that ha e just reached pension age, I for one got my first part payment May 17th, so will it mean we will get all the back pension they denied us? My date of birth is 21/01/1954

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  735. To be given my pension forecast and then a year later be told that I had to work another six years was devastating. My husband and I should have retired in the same year but now he is at home and I have to work!! This is putting a strain on our relationship as we had so much planned but I grudge him being at h
    ome and he hates me having to work. At the end of the day its my money and I doubt it is earning any interest being left untouched (yeah right!!) for six years.

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  737. Good luck ladies
    They should bring the retirement age down to 60 for men
    I know more men that died before they retired
    Than men who retire at 65 and are able to collect there pension

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  738. It was mandatory that we paid our state pension we were not given an option. Why can they just take it from us with no notice. Also they say there is a shortage in cash. Where has all the cash pots gone for thousands of people who were unfortunate enough not to reach state pension age

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  739. It’s about time ….this is criminal we have paid into the system as long as anyone else thank you so much for fighting for are rights to retirement with our beautiful grand children .

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  740. It’s a disgrace that the government can just change the goal post to suit themselves. We all had to opt to retire at 60 or 65 in an official government paper in the early 80s. I have never received anything asking this to be changed. It’s nothing but theft.

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  741. Hopefully it will go back to 60. I personally hope it does as this is my time now with permanent illness of COPD, And long term spontaneous since 1982. Coming to retirement would be a relief as they don’t look into what you have been doing working wise. I’ve been working in children homes this is mentally challenging and behavioural challenging we at over 60 really walking the streets in the early hours when kids go missing. Or thumping kicking you at 60. Smashing furniture throwing objects at you at 60. Come on give us a break. At 60 as am now carnt get a job as nobody wants to take you on for potential 6 years to retirement. Time to let us enjoy what time we have left with family grandchildren husband now not flogging us even more we physically carnt do what we did at the start of working life . We have fetched our kids up there your tax payers release us from this rediculous 66 retirement bracket.

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  742. My wife, born in 1954, died at age 63 without receiving her pension.
    Should there not be some compensation as she had to keep working and paying National tax until her death due to MND?

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  744. Come on we’ve all been robbed of what we worked hard for all our lives. Paid our taxes and national insurance we want what we deserve

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  745. Congratulations to all involved in this wonderful move forward – maybe still a long way to go but at least it’s going in the right direction – once again congratulations and well done to everyone involved

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  746. I was born October 1957. I was made to believe that o would receive my state pension at the age of 60. Now I have to wait until I reach 66. Would I still have to wait again . Will they be anychanch of getting my retirement pension earlier. Thankyou.

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  747. Does this mean that pension payments will be backdated I retire Jan 6th 2020 at age 65yrs 8mth so I lost all these years of pension payments

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  749. Women born in the 40s most paid a married stamp which meant nothing no stamp credits to have babies no guarantee to get your job back so most went into cleaning 2and 3 jobs or night jobs when husbands came home and still no stamps got paid for most which left us with poor pensions of our own or have to wait for our husbands

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  750. Well done ladies saving money by scrimping on our pensions making a profit from us ladies that have paid it’s distgusting

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  751. I had spent some years saving up my own nest egg to retire early at 55 and did so in the belief that the savings would last until I received my state pension at 60. I was some years into this “Plan” when the bombshell hit me that I wouldn’t get my state pension until I was 66! I was now too old to get a decent job, if it were not for the 2 final salary pensions that I got at 60 I would be struggling financially, this planning by myself was after listening to years of advice by the Government about retirement planning, well they certainly scuppered my plans. If I now get what is owed to me for the last 5 years I will be surprised but very grateful to this group of stalwart woman. My sister who is just 2 years older than me, born in 1952, has been enjoying her state pension for some years, where is the fairness in this. I feel cheated and angry after working full time for all those years, i didn’t stop to have children so have probably paid in more years than many. Good Luck Backto60

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  752. Bloody well done I am a 50 is lady and struggling so much after working full time for over 40 years and always paid ful NIC to our government

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  753. i was born 15th September 1953 ,started working at 15 ,I think they should have given you a choice if you wanted to stay on working i didn’t i have always worked even when my son’s were small because i needed to, I was looking forward to finishing work when i was 60 i was still working 40 hours so it was like a kick in the teeth so good luck to these people let’s hope we get back the money we deserve it all the money we paid in.

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  754. Great news and well done to the campaigners,. I was born in 1960, expected to retire at 60 what about us, I never had any letters either, just expected it would be 60, but alas no respite in sight, I worked two or three jobs around family and caring, not sure how I can go on until 66& 7 months.

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  756. Well done it has affected me greatly I do not retire until November of this year and I was 65 in April I was born in 1954. Thank you

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  757. As one of those effected i really think that to do such a thing without any info being shared prior to it taking effect was wrong i like most had made plans and financial goals relying on what we thought were expecting only to find it wasnt happening at the time it was expected too

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  758. Wonderful, they have NO idea how that extra 6yrs Felt for women who many of them had been working since the age of 15. Most are stuck between helping with childcare and elderly parents as well as holding down a job. Because they couldn’t afford to retire!! We certainly were not given adequate warning.

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  761. I was born in 1955 and was not formally informed that I could not retire till I was 66.It’s disgusting I’ve paid my full contributions .I have 43 yrs and 3 more to add which will be 46yrs and they don’t pay for extra yrs anymore .I only found out by the social media that I had to work till I was 66.this country is a disgrace

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  763. It is about time the truth was out + why do we pay tax on our OAP when the money we paid into it was taxed each week???????? Unfair and unjust – we should have what we saved for not the government who give it away as foreign aid!

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  764. Fantastic news on the pension age for women. I worked all my life in more than one job often and now look after my father at age 60. High time and thank you so much to all who brought this to the fore. Thanks too to Marie Clarke who pushed from the beginning.

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  766. About time I was boen in 1958 and was gutted when the pension age went up. I was not told and heard it on the news. i am thrilled and a big thank you to all those campaigning. If I can do anything please let me know.

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  768. I’m was 60 in April and i should be enjoying my time with family and my grandchildren but because of this greedy Government i need to struggle on. Our country is beginning to stand up and see those in power steal from us. They should hang there heads in shame. They are a total disgrace and they are the overpaid ones who need a wakeup call.

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  770. My 2 sisters died before ever getting their pension. What happened to their money? The Govt stole my pension for their own means.

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  771. Having been told 18 months before my 60th birthday that the goalposts had moved I was devastated. As an older single mum who had worked full time plus since leaving full time education and not receiving maternity leave / pay as I couldn’t afford to stop work (self employed women are still entitled to less than employed fathers) I was just holding everything together knowing I would at least get my old age pension at 60. If I’d have known the government was going to renege I would have paid my contributions into a private scheme which is properly regulated. Having started my working life on unequal pay it feels like my generation have struggled in so many ways. Now 65 with a disabled teenage son at uni and funding him so far I am encouraged that some fairness may be about to happen. Thanks to all those who are fighting on our behalf

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  773. I started work straight from school and have worked nearly all my life, while bringing up a child single handedley, I was informed that I would retire when I was sixty. I have struggled every year and it has been a extremmly hard over many years. I have watched as the retirement age has been extended year on year and my SRP is now when i reach 67, my private pension is not enough to take early retirement and I suffer with I’ll health, and can not walk without pain through arthritis and other ailments. There is no way I can live on the pittance that is UC and keep my home together, but due to my illnesses I will not be able to continue much longer in full time work…… and no, I need my pension to survive, I have worked from school leaving age and also prior to that as Saturday working. I am tired, in a hell of a lot of pain and fed up of the conservatives keep moving the bleeding goal posts!!!!

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  774. Glad to hear this I have been working since I was 16yrs I am now 63yrs and still working 3days a week still paying tax and still paying NI have to work like many women till I am 66yrs . I am lucky and have good health but just think I am in a job and keeping this from a young mother who would like my job . Cannot win as they have made it so older women have to keep working and younger women maybe cannot get part time work .Hope something comes of this

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  775. Really feel that having contributed to our own country’s National insurance scheme for 50 years that we should be respected to receive a full state pension especially when we are giving money for foreigners and their families to live here when they have contributed nothing at all ..
    I am deeply disappointed as I have had to call in my private pension and the government rules that I pay emergency tax on it so being robbed again of my own money .
    This is so totally disgraceful.

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  776. I totally agree with Backto60 and Waspi I was born 13/8/54 but can not get my state pension until 2020 but have worked all my life since 1969 paying full stamp and Surps. I did not pull out of Surps but as it stands I will draw the same as someone who has never worked or paid in. Where is the justice in that. It’s theft on so many different levels. I’ve paid my dues now give us our rightful pension. This is not a benefit we have worked for it.

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  778. I am a 60 year woman with health problems. The thought of having to work until 66 fills me with dread as my job is physical..

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  779. Wow thank you thank you Lets hope we get them to honour it As i am 63 today and we dont even get the bus pass. I couldnt get When I was 60 as it had been put up to 65 But if you were 60 before the April you got it but after April you have to wait to 65 and then in the next years it will be 66 and so on till they have the same retirement age as men or they put the highest age to retire at When will we know when it will happen or that they pay or do we still have to wait

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    • Eunice
      Sorry to disappoint but you are not quite reading this right – this was the blog that announced last December that a judge had granted a judicial review. That review was held last week – there are two more blogs on my site about the hearing. Judges have gone away to decide whether to award compensation or not. we will probably know about whether they will at the end of July

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  781. When I worked in the Pension Service Model Office a good few years ago, the Tory bigwigs were telling us 75vis their target for both sexes.

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  783. My 1st job in ’74 was a temp typist for construction of M27 no pension. I temped in the recession, no pension. I worked f/t for 25yrs for Manpower continuously with Manpower in IBM for 24yrs no pension. As a single hard working hetro who never married or had children, and always worked f/t I feel cheated … well done for recognising our ignorance. I think men and women should retire at the same age.

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  784. On behave of my wife thank you she has to work extra 5 3/4 years and was not told off this. When Julie left school all the class went to work at the same time, some of her class reach 60 before the rest of the class so they retired on state pension and some had to work 5 years or more before they can have a state pension that’s not right. Thankyou

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  785. I am a 50s baby and I hope they win the case,
    I would like to be able to retire from my full time job, I understand not everyone will want to retire, but it would be nice to have that option, and be able look after my grandchildren while their parents work, let the youngsters in these jobs that are taken up by the 50’s women,
    We have done our bit.

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  788. It’s atrocious they should never have been allowed to go though with this. I have cared for the same woman now for just over17 years she has a 24 hour care plan. When I started to work with her in 2002 I never thought I would have worked there to I would retire. Just as I’m approaching retirement age I get told I can’t retire now I have to work until I am 67. Financial I am not in the position that I can stop work now because I have no pension as we were all paying towards at 60. I am not as fit as I used to be, as lifting wheelchairs and helping the women get around has had an impact on my back. As I said before the government should not be allowed to do this to people.

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  789. Yay we should get our pensions at 60
    Onwards ridiculous having to wait think the government at some just performing yet another shameful money saving exercise o the vulnerable
    We can’t all work until
    67 !! They are simply not enough jobs in my opinion.

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  790. I am so pleased that at last our plight is being considered. I was born in 1956 and am one of the women who had to wait 6 yrs for my state pension. I did think that 2 or even 3 years was possibly acceptable but 4 5 and 6 yrs is diabolical and for the likes of my sister who was born in 1957 and is still having to work on an high dependency ward nursing it’s impacting on her health.

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  791. Due to I’ll health I am unable to work !
    I have to have a medical by the government
    every year to prove that I’m unable to work
    twice I have been told I’m fit to WORK
    I have to sign on JSA who going to employ
    me at 61 with DDD, arthritis, an osteoporosis
    Had the age not been raised I would be retired !!! No I have to endured explaining
    myself, whilst migrants sit there with an
    interpreter, young adults whom the government seem fit to give them what they want !!! Beggars belief rant over

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  793. These women have down a great job and showed the people who have robbed us of our pension that they are going to fight all the way .I signed the petition that they started and am so glad I did .I would like to thank them for fighting the government on our behalf and I hope we get what we have paid into all our working lives .😊😊

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  795. I signed the back to 60 campaign petition some time ago I am 62 and now out of work and struggling to find a job due to health issues this decision to make us wait till age 66 is appalling and I dont think the government realise the terrible impact this has had on 50s women. well done for getting this far.

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    • Good job ladies im with you.Thinking about it now,i didnt have any notification of the change,hope we have the right outcome.

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  798. Good luck. I am so much worse off now. I have had to sell my house to survive. I was given no notice at all re these changes

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  799. This is great news…Finally some progress..A massive thank you to all involved..
    Lets hope it doesn’t take such a long time to finalise..so that 1950s women do actually get to feel the benefit from it.
    Each woman’s story varies..but I for one had no notification about it.
    And due to redundancy at 58 have had to use most of my small private pension to just survive…if I had nothing I could have claimed… but having a little precludes me from any assistance…

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  800. As a women born in 1955 and worked and still working), all of my life in between having four children, I am thrilled to bits with the outcome so far!
    My own life is now made very difficult and at the age of 63 I am having to undertake a Return to Practice Nursing Course this year to enable me to continue to work until after I receive my pension at 66 !!
    I’m currently working as a midwife/ clinician but will need to re-open my RGN registration to continue my job in the future.
    In the past 6 years I’ve endured uterine cancer, breast cancer and the necessary chemotherapy and surgery required to prolong my life. I’ve also had a total hip replacement . Yet I cannot afford not to work yet ! As the sole wage earner my income pays for everything and it has done for the past 25 years. I am always scrimping and trying to make ends meet and having my pension would transform my whole life and that of my husband. So I’m really hoping something good comes out of this judicial review.

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    • I was born 1955 hope we get it could do with Ito have worked all my life I am 64 now I still work 4 jobs but thankfully don’t wok weekends no more so thank you everyone who is fighting our corner hope we get what we are entiled to

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  803. It’s about time someone listened and took this seriously. I should have retired 5 years ago but the new law made it impossible for me. I have struggled financially. Let’s hope we all get what we deserve.

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  804. Is awful this people who were ministers lied that is very alarming what else do they keep liying about very scary and disgusting behavior . Never believe or trust anyone . And be carful who you listen to and who you believe . 🤔🤔

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  805. Being someone who was affected ythis I ha e worked out the government have saved 37k by not giving me my pension at 60 but 67 instead so you k ow it’s all about the money saved and to help with the impact on us all

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  806. Very well done ladies, you have won the battle, now carry on to win the war. Thank you this effects so many of us , we have all had enough of being ripped off in this country, thank you once again.

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  807. So pleased to hear this issue got through the courts. All I got was a letter stating retirement age 66. I was unlucky enough to get cancer at 59 and had to retire at 60. But of course no pension till 66 just a small works pension. I hope the government help all the 50 to 59ers left with very little money. I just hope this extends to Northern Ireland and not just England.

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  810. I am all for this and thank the people who are helping us 50s women I have worked all my life and am exhausted and the pension age is changed to 66 i hope you all do well and a big thank you for trying to fix this x also my husband had a bypass and i don’t get any money for him because I work a d I have to look after him and work were as if I had my pension I could look after him and retire

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  812. Thankfully a judge with some compassion for the awful injustice dealt to those of us stuffed without a pension we paid in to and the thieving government stole!!!

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  813. Changing retirment dates should apply to the younger generation gives them plenty of time to get accustomes to retirement dates not. Ladies born in the 1950s lost out big time

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  815. Thank you, thank you, thank you. For taking this to court, they have not only increased it to 65 but added another year on to 66 stating it starts in 2020, I can say for certain it starts in Oct 2019, two weeks before I was going to get my pension.

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    • Hi Susan.. in the same boat as yourself my birthday being 20 October 1954. It so weird because ladies I work beside are also 65 this year however because their birthdays are before October are receiving their state pension.. it’s such a scanner…. all we can do is keep supporting Back260 and Waspi’s.

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  817. Fantastic news ladies its not going to help me born 1960 but so happy you ladies from the 50ts are a step closer to get things sorted out once n for all well done ladies xx

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  818. This rise in the age that a woman can receive her state pension also means a lot of woman may not live long enough to receive something they have worked for all their adult lives despite working whilst bringing up a family , it’s all messed up it’s simple really check a woman’s N.I. contributions if she has worked hard and paid in to the system let her have her pension at 60 !

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  819. Women and men should be able to get their full state pension at 60 if they have the qualifying years so they can enjoy what is left of their life having worked for most of it and paid their dues. They can hand their jobs over to the younger generation who may never get the chance otherwise to earn a wage and provide for themselves and their families, They too will be contributing tax and NI so there will be no loss. it could eventually reverse the culture of non working families who are now in their 3rd and 4th generations living on benefits, re-introducing pride and reducing the need to mug, steal, deal drugs and escape reality by taking them, whilst the older generation are flogging themselves to death – literally in some cases – with no life to look forward to. If you’ve paid in, get it at 60.

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  820. A great step forward for justice to the group of woman most penalised for being born in the 50,s. I felt like I had money stolen from me. The government had no right to make the change with no notification. I accepted the first change with good grace but knew nothing of the second one loss of 18 months pension and the right not to pay NI contributions which seems to be overlooked. Great work by back to 60 and the waspies. We should not have to fight for what was a legal entitlement.

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  822. Well done …I have worked all my life paying full stamp even when my children were small with one of us doing nights so there was always someone to look after them ..have never claimed any benefits other than family allowance ..and now help look after my two grandchildren when I am not at work so there mum and dad can work …

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  824. By rights I should be retiring this year when I turn 60 but have to work until I’m 66. With failing health are the DWP hoping people will die before they retire. Let us have some pleasure before we pass away. We want to enjoy our retirement while we can. Not to be driven in to the ground by having to work these extra years.

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  826. Good news I’ve worked since I was 16 apart from 2 years I’ve earned my pension but am still working full time in care I welcome this breakthrough may it lead to an upturn in policy

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  828. Well done to everyone fighting for all women. I was born august 1954 and do not get my pension until july 2020 i have to work 12 hour days to live

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  829. I was born in 1961 and I will never last till 66 ,I’ve worked all my life doing 12hr night shifts and my health is really bad now ,I’m praying that it will be reversed back to 60 for females

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  830. I gave up work at 60 to be full time carer for my husband who has Huntington’s disease and have had to rely on £64 YES £64 per week carers allowance as I am not entitled to my state pension until 66… Which is still a year away. Disgraceful!!!!

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  831. My wife was born Feb 1960 and looks like she will again miss out if this case is won. I think whatever the pension age is when you start work should be the age a person gets their pension

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  832. Well done it’s about time. We women born in the 50s were and still are discriminated against.

    I applaud all the legal teams and the pioneers.

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  835. I am so grateful for this decision. Like many others, I geared my financial situation to age 60, only to have my hopes dashed. Now 63 and disabled, I try to balance the books each month, but fail. I work part time, doing relief work, which only amounts to a week or two a year! This isn’t about money for holidays, but money to live! Thank you again.

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  836. Perseverance is the only way forward. It’s great that this stage has been reached. The pain and humiliation that poverty brings after having worked all of our lives and then having our pensions denied for 6 or more years is awful. We need to be compensated.

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  837. I would like to say well done and a big thank you for the women who have fought so hard on our belalf.
    Just knowing now we are not just going to be swept under the rug gives up hope. I was born in 1955,started work on 6th Sept 1971 – 19th July 2017. 46 years Full time.Goverments on both sides have really insulted and let us down badly we gave so much. Once again a big thankyou.

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  838. i would like to say thank you for the ladies that are fighting for the rights to reduce the pension to 60 have worked since i was 14 i say give the young ones our jobs am ready to relax and enjoy my time what’s left

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  839. Keep up the good fight, we are all behind you as we were born in the 50s. I have worked all my life and now suffer severe osteoarthritis and dont receive 1p from the DWP as im not eligible, despite having paid 42yrs ni stamps. Its disgusting!

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  840. I’m so pleased by the actions of this Judge’ I am 62 years old and my wife is 63 years old’ she has a hip & back problem as I do too’ she now had to carry on working in pain as a HCA nurse on a pre-assessment clinic in a hospital.
    Recently her hospital have amalgamated the ear’ nose & throat clinic kin with hers’ thus twice the work load for the same £9. an hour!
    Workers at Lidl’s and Aldi’s get a higher hourly rate than that’ and my wife could kill someone if she doesn’t do her job properly!
    I’m a man and yes I’ve worked in the building trade all my life and I’m also suffering aches and pains’ I’ve got Polymyalgia Rheumatica and in constant pain’ but I still have to go to work and struggle through the pain barrier!
    This government have no respect and don’t care for people our age.

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  841. Fantastic news, these power people need to understand that ordinary working people don’t always have a congency plan for when things change over night. I’m almost 62 and have Always worked. Why can’t we retire at 60 as we Always thought we would. Well done for getting this far xxxx

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  842. Fantastic news and fabulous work. I always laugh when they say this was common knowledge by 1998. My husband died in May 1998. I was 44 years and 8 months old and was told I could not claim a widows pension ad I was not 45 years old. I was told that when I turn 60 and claim my gov pension I can then claim extra on my husband’s contributions.
    3 things with this.
    1. In may 1998 the DWP staff did not have the info that women’s pensions age were changing.
    2. The staff at DWP were totally unaware that the rules regarding claiming on your spouses contributions were also changing along with female pension age as the person who is claiming in their spouses contributions have to be pensionable age when the spouse dies.
    3. I was completely misinformed. I did not only miss out on 4 years pension but I miss out completely on my husband’s contributions. So all his contributions go into the coffers of the gov. Totally disgusting.

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  843. Amazing. There was always a chance that a Judicial review would be granted. Breach of original employment contracts and pension rights

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  844. Such a cruel injustice to these hard working women my wife included,hopefully they can win this case Ang get belated retirement.

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  845. I am one of those affected and was never consulted on these pension matters .I hope they are successful and the government has to backdate to all of the women concerned .with interest as well

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  849. The unfair part of all this is that we were not informed in good time to put something in place. My pension age changed twice, I was born in November 1953 and when it changed the first time, I was retiring when I was 63, then after checking some time later it had changed again to 65.
    I could have accepted one change but the same age group have been penalised twice. It’s very unfair.

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  851. I am one of the women affected by this unfair decision & never was told about not being able to get my pension at 60yrs old!. I applaud this decision by Hon Ms Justice Lang & look forward to getting the backto60 ! This should never have happened in the first place!. One day the pensionable age was 60 then the next day 65 now 66! Wholly unfair!. We worked hard since the age of 15 & got paid a lot less than men & paid into the system!.. So give us our pension!

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  853. I’d not paid into a private pension as after my divorce I had to bring up 3 children and worked part time. My ex-husband had a good pension which I got a SMALL payment from. I hoped to be able to start overpaying on the mortgage when I started to get my state pension at 60!! Instead I’m now 66 and still nursing until I’m 70.

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  854. I was robbed of 3 years and 9 months of my state pension. Was told I would get mine in 2013 when I turned 60 . Nope changed to when I was 62 and 9 months then 63 and 9 months. Finally got it in March 2017 . Retired paid mortgage off with work pension. Load of rubbish they owe me 3 yrs and months that I paid into since being 16 . Sad x

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    • I also have been robbed. I was 65 3 days ago and supposedly get my pension next march which is 5 years and 9 months after i thought i would get it at. Hope this stand goes further and gets us all money that we are owed

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  855. What an outcome. I am one of these 50’s women who is suffering hardship due to the changes in pension age. In the last 6 years I have fought and beat cancer on minimum income. I have had to remain in employment as mine is the only income. We paid in now the government should pay out.

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  856. I worked full time for 50 years but 46 as dont pay tax till 18 i left school at 14 left on friday started work on the monday no childern so worked 50 years was hopeing to get my pension at 60

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  857. I worked full time for 50 years but 46 as dont pay tax till 18 i left school at 14 left on friday started work on the monday no children so worked 50 years was hopeing to get my pension at 60

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  858. I sent a letter to Tobias Elwood Bournemouth MP 3 years ago and I received an appalling reply. He clearly didn’t care as he didn’t attend the debate.

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  859. This is not about health, it’s about the injustice of a whole generation of women who were not notified about changes in time to save for their future. It’s a shortfall of over £30000
    To each and everyone of us born in the 50’s over 1953. This is a group of women where wages in the 70’s and 80’s were not equal. Most of us would not have paid into private pensions and most of us worked in two to three jobs to live. Most have not been unemployed. What has happened is illegal and grossly unfair.

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  863. Please let me get my retirement I’ve worked full time since I was 15 and had pastime job from 14 and always gone back work within weeks of having my children am knackered I do caring job which is getting harder all the time plus looked after my children, husband and home

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  864. As i was born in 1952, this has effected my pension and I had to stay in employment for 2 and a half years longer then previously described payment from age 60.
    I paid in all my working life and feel cheated out of 2 and a half years of pension money!
    So glad that some legal minds are now behind the campaign!

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  865. So unfair to all who have had to work extra years later myself had to wait 4 years I was made redundant could not find work because of my age and had to claim unemployment benefits

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  866. This is fantastic news for us women born in the 50s.all my plans were aimed at retirement at 60 and without any consultation my state pension was moved to 66.

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  867. A step in the right direction..just hope this can be overruled for us 50s women who have literally been robbed. The majority will have worked and paid the full national insurance for approximately 50 yrs. . Let’s hope this change comes about soon.

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  868. I looked after My mother Father and now helping with grand children giving up my job to do so now am going though chemo Now having to wait till I’m 66 to get my pension the 50 s women never got equal pay only doing small jobs because most stayed at home to bring up their children

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  869. I am one of victims of these policies. My health suffered as My retirement age rose from 60 to 62 to 63 11 months and 22 days. Sadly I have not be able to enjoy my retirement as planned with the restrictions of bad health. I worked for 48 years 45 full time. Shameful decisions penalizing women in their sixties. Well done hopefully we will get justice.

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  870. I was born 1956, making me 63 now, I have to wait until I am 66 for my pension.
    In the defence of us woman born in the 50’s there were no equal opportunities for us, I was certainly paid less, we didnt get help with child care etc the list goes on, we had little security in our jobs and once we had children doors were slammed shut and the most many of us could hope for was a part time job.

    In the defence of men , the men born in the fifties, many , not all, left school at 15, didn’t get the opportunities they have today, the working week was longer and many did overtime to top up their pay.

    Yes, I would have liked my pension, and yes I feel robbed, the government have handled this issue appallingly .

    To end , we are amongst richest counties in the EU yet our pension is one of the lowest.

    Pensions should be HIGHER for all, nearing a living wage and to pay for that maybe we could work a little longer but NOT an extra 6 years.

    And both MEN and WOMAN should be entitled to their pension at 63 . We have paid enough in.

    And just a reminder to those who think the younger generations are paying for us. They ARE NOT, many of us have been paying for this for near on 50 years, and during that 50 years we have been contributing to the upkeep of the younger generation , something they seem to forget.

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  871. My wife Carol was born in September 1954 and was never notified of this change to her pension. As time progressed and she was approaching pensionable age she had not one but three changes to the date she would actually receive it, now standing just prior to her 66th birthday. Mick

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  873. This is great news. I am a 55 child and I will get my pension at 66 2021. I am having to buy back pension years and this is putting me under financial stress due the moving forward of eligibility. I had enough if it had been left at 60. I was disgusted by the governments handling of this and a scaled management over a lengthy discussion period would have been so much better for everyone concerned. So thank you once again I hope we get a fair ruling in the future to compensate for the unjust way it was handled.

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  876. A terrific article covering the many points that have been so complacently unacknowledged by the powers that be!
    When is the result due please?
    With thanks to all who worked to get this injustice put right.

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  879. So does this only effect people born in the 50s as I was 60 so no hope for me I suppose I work in a warehouse and lifting thing of 25kilos is now getting a bit much I work a 12 hour shift to make ends meet and pay my bills and because I work hard and have saved for my old age. I am not even entitled to any benefits so may be i should now start to drink, smoke and take expensive holidays to use my money while I can enjoy it.

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  880. Thank you for listening to us 50 ladies
    I don’t mind working on till 65 bug raising it to 66 and beyond was out of order. Being a single parent and part time worker how could I possibly safe for a pension it’s only in the last 15 years I have accumulated a little pension so please remember most woman are carers first

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  882. Do these people that make these rules Realise how hard it is to get a job, I have never been out of work all my life, been a single parent, done everything right, come out of work when I was 60, couldn’t get a job, I received £27.00 in four months .Keep up the good work, glad someone has are back .

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  883. What amazing news at last something positive. Why should we be made to work longer, surely the government can see the rational for giving us back what they have stolen from women like me, who has worked since I was a girl, how dare they assume that we would want to continue until we drop, or is that the intention- that way they keep OUR pension we have paid into for the past 35+ years. Also if they let us retire the young people of this country can move into our posts and have some self-worth and contribute to their futures instead of being paid the billions of pounds in benefits- rant over

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  884. Amazing news I was born in in 1956 it’s a disgrace I never got my pension I am 63 and had to go back to work as p I p thought I should am in remission from leukaemia, I love my job and will carry on but the injustice of us not getting what is ours is disgusting

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  886. I do hope that this will take unto account those women born in the early 60s who’s pensions have also been grosslycand unfairly impacted

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  888. I cannot express my delight more !!
    I had one document from my teacher pension provider way back to say I was on the sliding scale – then silence and the announcement of 66 !!
    I have been absolutely disgusted by the Gov – having paid in for 30yrs and at this moment having retired as a teacher at 60 – (not a full time ) I have only had half a pension amount to survive on for the past 4 and half years
    Thank you so much for standing up for us 50s women

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  889. Thank you all for you’re hard work on this matter. I really appreciate everything you are trying to achieve. This would make an amazing relief to my life.

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  890. I’am nearly 65. I was told I would get my pension at 64 and 8 months then they moved the goal post again to 66. No notification only heard through the media. It’s disgusting. My husband had already had to pay 15,000 pounds for my heart bypass. The NHS were only going to monitor me. If I hadn’t of gotten a second opinion, I would be dead.

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  891. Wow..I signed the Petition but wasn’t holding my breath..what a good start to get this review! I was fully aware that Pensions needed reviewing. For many, many years NI contributions were coming in the front door & going out the back door. However, Governments have not actioned it in a capable & timely manner and it’s ended up feeling rushed through and unfair. My husband who’s 3 yrs older than me collected his pension at 65..but now I’m 63 & I’ve still to wait another 3 years….the maths just don’t add up :/ What really angered me was the way I’d received notification I’d get it at age 65..then…unbeknown to me it was changed, pretty obscenely, to 66. What a shock.

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    • Very under handed way this was done…..we are all entitled to having that money back….and off course back dateed to our 60th birthdays

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  892. I am a community carer and I suffer hip and back pain every day made worse by the nature of my work. I worry about how I am going to manage the next extra 6 years working and what kind of eventual retirement I will be able to enjoy if any.

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  893. I retired at 60 because the job I was doing was very challenging but had to find a job to make ends meet this country is way behind times saving money off working class to line their pockets to retire at a lot earlier than 60

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  896. Women were always paid less than men, and in many cases that had not changed, even with the equal pay act (1976?). So the government can hardly claim that such an abrupt change to pensions equality is fair

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    • No not yet. It will depend on the judgement after the hearing which will not be announced for some weeks. But BackTo60 are involved in lobbying to see if any of the opposition parties are prepared to give people compensation for their loss.

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  898. It’s the right thing to I’m a 63 year old woman and should have retired 3 years ago I’ve worked since I was 15 I’ve paid my dues to society more than can be said for half the population who haven’t worked and lived of the state as long as I’ve been paid work so good luck hope we get the justice we deserve

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  899. I have lost out on twenty thousand pound and this will double if not paid until im 66 years old..6 yrs was addfed for women.but only 1 year added for men.i have to continue to work like so many over 6os women.and will have to do so for a few yrs if the pension remains at 66..

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  900. I’m 58, and expected to retire at 60. Untill the new laws kicked into place. What about this age group?? I’ve worked 40 odd years of paying and expected tetire at 60. Dont know how I’ll make it to 67 how I am, but that’s what they want. They dont even pay out if I’ve never claimed unlike a private pension, it’s not a benefit, I paid for a service, which I might add had no choice to opt out even if I wanted. They have the audacity to call it a benefit???? For all those who dont make retirement and have paid in, we should demand similar payments live a private pension would provide. How can it be right being 67 in a physical or mentally absorbing job, it’s no good. For God sake, let us retire early and give our bloody jobs to the young, for their turn to earn. As for this debate, I want to be included in this not just the 1950s people, as I said I’m 58 now, I’ve paid my dues and worked all my life. If you want to work into your 70s fair enough, but as a choice not a law!!!!! Again they have to stretch it to the nth degree. I also happen to think that mens age should have been bought down, and just maybe a slight increase to women, both set at say 62. I might have gone with that, but this is so wrong for both sexes.

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  902. Well done its not easy working at the same pace in your sixties its like going back to victorian times except its not the children working its the older population working all hours just to keep what they have and put food on the table to what cost ultamately our health i have paid into that pension all my working life keep fighting and give us what we deserve i for one would be so grateful

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  903. At 61 I was diagnosed with kidney cancer, I have prolapsed disc’s in my lower back and neck and can barely walk let alone work. I left school at 15yrs, have 41 full years of contributions, I believe you need 35yrs for a full pension and don’t receive any extra for the additional years paid in…

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  904. Thank goodness for back to 60, bringing this injustice to the public! Hopefully something positive will be brought in from the hearing. Too many women suffering with health problems, financial and mentally exhausted through trying to soldier on in some very demanding jobs! This goverment is out of order or should I say the dwp and the minister at that time. Give us our dues back. It’s grand theft!!

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  905. Thank goodness for back to 60, bringing this injustice to the public! Hopefully something positive will be brought in from the hearing. Too many women suffering with health problems, financial and mentally exhausted through trying to soldier on in some very demanding jobs! This goverment is out of order or should I say the dwp and the minister at that time. Give us our dues back. It’s grand theft!!

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  906. Interesting, hope it doesn’t lead to further disappointment for these women who have been so unfairly discriminated against . Xx

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  907. It’s about time something was done about all the plight of us ladies who should have got pension at 60 I’m now 63 and get it at 66 ..worked since I was 15 and they just raised it with no warning.

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  909. Yes we should not have to work till we are 66 being back to 60 I want to enjoy my life now worked since I was 16

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  910. Fabulous news. The law now gives women, who want to, the option to work after they are 60, but we should still have the option to still retire at 60 too. Give us the opportunity to enjoy some retirement, which also creates opportunities for the younger generation coming through, opening up job opportunities

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  911. Last night there was Soccer Aid on the television and whatever the total raised the Goverment was matching So why can’t they give us our pensions? George Osbourne has said they have to find the money from somewhere well it’s right there as far as I’m concerned do the right thing and give us what we are entitled too

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  912. Well done ladies. I had to work an extra 2.5 years for my state pension even though I have worked from 15 years old and was forced to work those extra years to claim pension.

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  913. I have worked since the age of 15 taking only a few years off to raise my children. I then worked part time to fit around my children’s school hours. My husband worked through out this period so had no gaps in his pension. We divorced and I had a shortfall so have had to pay extra into my pension. I work full time and on my day off look after my grandchildren. My health is very poor after being diagnosed with osteoporosis and suffering 6 fractures in my spine a total hip replacement and fractured wrist. I am constantly in pain and have no quality of life but have to continue working for another 3 years. The money in our pension pot was used to prop up the government in Thatchers years. The men who are complaining did they bring up children shop clean cook with no payment then at a time when we should be able to enjoy our retirement are struggling with no money and health issues. Start looking after the people who have paid into their pensions for years and not give our money away to prop up your mistskes

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  914. I’ve worked since 16 now 61 I’ve paid for my pension will be to tired to enjoy my retirement at 66 time for all of us women to take the stand

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  915. Shocking the government stole from us ..We are entitled to our money that’s due and to retire and enjoy our family. I’m 60 now and feel it trying to get up in the morning my body is sore.
    I’ve worked since the age of 16 so why should the government keep our money they can give millions to other countries but ignore there own. So please pay us and let us retire and enjoy what life we have left.

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    • The question is basically what have the government used our money for? They have stolen from millions of women who they thought wouldnt bat an eyelid but they are wrong!!! We cant let them get away with it.Have they used it to pay themselves their ridiculous wages and bonuses? Wouldnt surprise me.Something needs to be done as someone somewhere has committed a crime and needs to be brought to justice

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      • I like many others was not made aware of ANY changes to pension date.
        Having worked all my life and saved, I now find myself in an untenable situation.
        My savings are gone, I have had to sell my house and rent a property. I have nothing left to leave my hardworking children.
        I am constantly worried about money and the future.
        They have stolen from me the years I should have been looking forward to.

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  917. On Sunday they had Soccar Aid on the television and every pound they raised the government were matching they raised 6.5 million pound so the government are putting that amount in so George Osbourne said that he did not know where the money was going to come from to pay us woman well there’s my argument there’s 6.5 million of it there save sending it aboard and give it to the ladies who only won’t what’s rightfully theirs

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  918. Well done all, and to those who think it’s unfair that men and women have different retirement ages, yes that’s wrong but my retirement age went from 60 to 62 then to 66, whilst the government claim no woman has had to wait longer than 18 months past their original retirement age. Obviously they can’t add up. This is what is grossly unfair

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    • 4 years 8 months delayed so far only another 1 year and 4 months unless changed after October 14th 2020….apparently government looking at putting it up to 67 at that stage….

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  920. Having been one of the woman born in the 50s and I had to wait 4yrs before I got my pension at 64 I think what this group have done is amazing and glad the judge has put it clearly that it should go back to 60 might be too late for me but could help so many others not having to wait as long as I had to and it should be paid back to all the woman who had to wait so long, well done to all and good luck

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    • The fact of the matter is that the pension age should always have been equal for men and women. Most women, as soon as they got married, and while the option existed, such as it did for my wife, who gets her state pension at age 66, elected to pay the “small stamp” (4 old pence, less than 2p, in the early 1970s) to save money in NI contributions and get the maximum in their pay packets. The small stamp didn’t count for state pension purposes and sickness benefit purposes and only covered industrial injuries. When the small stamp option was abolished, those already having elected to pay it were allowed to continue doing so. Accordingly those who did would never qualify for a state pension so the change in pension age, widely publicised more than 20 years ago, would not affect them. What should be disputed is the raising of occupational pension pension age by the employers to 65 with little publicity. My wife, who did pay the full stamp, hence qualifies for a state pension, has no problem with the age being raised.

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      • I always paid full stamp. However after 47 years of contributions. When I decided to retire due to ill health at 62. I was told my pension account was recalculated an set to 30 yrs and if I wanted to qualify for a full pension st 67 then I would have to contribute another £714 per year until my retirement date. How fair is that????

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  922. What a day for those that have survived to see and hear that we have finally been given a hearing! And it would have to take a woman to have the courage to do this!

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  923. I am 61, at age 50 I ask DWP for pension forecast, they sent me one with letter adding that if I gave them a lump sum payment of £1.500 I would go from middle band pension to higher rate pension. Not at any point did they mention on this information that I wouldn’t receive my pension till 66. It has been a total deceitful cover up.
    No private company would get away with such deceit.

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  924. Thank you so much to these people who have pioneered on our behalf to get our pensions and not make us wait another six years even though im,64 next month I will be so gratefull just to get my pension and live the life ive looked forward to for so long. I am eternally gratefull to you just for trying. Much love to you all and a big THANK YOU.and hopefully we will see the light at the end of the tunnel xx

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  926. Well done to all that are trying to help us im 64 now and still have to wait another 2 yrs before I see any pension, thank god someone is seeing sense , I have everything crossed that we get what is owed to us

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    • Same as yourself…I worked 9 to 5 today in my job as optical advisor..I looked after the department (which is part of a large supermarket chain) on my own because no other staff available. It was so busy being a Glasgow holiday weekend. I never stopped and only had time for a sandwich.
      I will be 65 on october 20th. Yes I’m exhausted tonight and will have to go in on my day off tomorrow to complete orders for which there was no time
      If I could afford to retire right now a younger person could be trained for a job with a good future. There is always room for advancement in the Optical trade.
      Now on top of this there is talk that the 14th October 2020 is the next date for the government to try and push the retirement date to 67.
      My husband is a retired 70 year old who has a fixed income and not able to earn extra earnings.
      We have to keep talking about our situations as THERE IS SUCH A LONG DELAY SINCE BACKTO60’S DAY IN COURT.
      KEEP TALKING..

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      • Hi, just to say it might seem a long time but it is quite normal, I am afraid, for judges to take their time to reach a considered judgement. I am hoping that they won’t want to leave it hanging over them for the summer – so we should get something by the end of July.

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      • I am so appreciative of everything you have done. I am also determined to fight the good fight and contribute where I can.. my kindest regards

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  927. I wish the 50s women well and hope they win their case! However, I was born in 1960 and believe the same issues apply to me!? Any chance I could also claim my state pension at 60?!

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  928. At last! Haven’t won yet but great news for the those of us who kept having their pension date changed at very short notice.

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    • I am with you ladies . I have had to resort to cashing in my private pension plan early and I’ve even been penalised with emergency tax . . We should get this on the one show .

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  930. As one of the 50s women affected, I am slightly encouraged by this. The issue totally shocked me when I realised retirement at 60 was no longer an option. It was sneaky and underhand. As a woman who has worked all her life and brought up a child whilst doing so, like many women, I think we have been robbed. I have no faith in the UK government any more, we can bail out bankers and high earners whilst robbing ordinary people of hard earned benefits.

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    • all i know is that 14 Oct 2020 was noted as the date planned to raise it to 67. Maybe someone else could confirm this. I’m dreading that as I will be 66 on the 20 Oct 2020..

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  932. I have read so many blogs highlighting the plight of the 1950’s women. Showing evidence of the Pensions malpractice. I’ve just seen one where the government posted in the beginning of the Pension changes. Two press adverts were released, one with two dogs talking to one another on a beach and another a picture of a monopoly board. These adverts mentioning pension changes.

    Media coverage is not acceptable when your making major changes to people’s lives. What the hell has 2 dogs or a monopoly board got to do with making the 50’s women aware of the massive changes ahead.

    I despair …. are these people morons

    Firstly why put adverts in papers or magazines, I can’t afford to buy these items so what use is that information in them.

    Secondly if you know our Nat insurance contributions you know our National insurance number write to us. You managed to do it when you extended date to retire had now increased to 66.

    Sadly in my heart I feel if we were lucky enough to win the judicial review. I have no faith in the villains we have running this country. They will still use every trick in the book to delay us getting what we deserve.

    They will appeal to make a few more years go by. Making the 50’s women suffer more, some not even making it to pension age.

    Never have I experienced such callous, blatant disrespect of anyone.
    How has this been so blocked by media.Where has a TV investigation looked into this. We can dramatise any investigation on TV but we obviously aren’t worth talking about.

    May I suggest MP’s get off their backsides and go and visit some of these 1950’s women. Who are struggling to exist…..living is a luxury for them, every day is a mega challenge.

    As a government and as a government agency you are without doubt heartless, irresponsible and above all useless.

    Dee

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      • Firstly thankyou David for all your support in this issue. We are all so so grateful

        I have a basic education I never went to college or university. I’ve never claimed a benefit in my life. I’ve fought and worked all my life to improve and make my families life better. Most women in there 50’s can relate to this. Jobs have never been handed on a plate and I certainly wasn’t on the same salary as males doing the same job. I have juggled more balls than Billy smarts circus but I did it.

        We are not asking for something for nothing. We are asking for what’s rightfully ours.

        I hope that somewhere in the Government’s conscience is a glimmer of humanity. Give yourselves a challenge and do something right for once and make these 50’s women have a hope.

        Put your hands in the air and admit you cocked up. You know there are more holes in your accountability for these changes than a string vest. You know we weren’t informed and no amount of dogs talking on beaches, monopoly board adverts would register as a pension age increase.

        1950’s women have never had the equality that is evident today. It was a different world back then.

        I have to say have we improved ?
        Does anyone know what they are doing in Goverment?
        Has this world gone mad ? we have leaders of countries I wouldn’t let lead a horse.
        Do we have the right criminals of
        fraud behind bars or are the working in Government?

        When will someone wake up and ask “What ever happened to Great Britain?”

        Dee

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      • I see Amber Rudd has stuck her 10 penneth in. More or less stating the back to 50’s women have no hope of getting there pensions changed.

        It’s yet another clear slap in the face from the DWP. Suppose we should expect nothing better.

        One thing I’m sure we can guarantee the back to 50’s women, there families and there friends will not forget what you have done to mums, nans and great grandma’s across this country.

        Just wait till you need support in elections I can tell you you won’t even be acknowledged.

        The government and their agency the DWP have treated the 50’s women with total disrespect. Moreover the state pensions fiasco is a massive cock up.

        Unfortunately the DWP would have us believe they make no mistakes. Every thing is correct and reliably Managed.

        Are they for real !!!!!

        Mistakes ….they are not just mistakes they’re disasters. Can the DWP not accept they’re making a mockery of our systems. If you can’t do the job let somebody do it that can, your turning this country into a joke.

        All I see is a department that has no comprehension of the devastation their mis management is causing.

        Amber Rudd these people are not in the wage bracket you are. They aren’t fortunate enough to live your lifestyle. The people your supposed to help are the most vulnerable. People who have a right to retire. People who want a glimmer of hope that they can live a life of hope and not desperation.

        As a woman do you have no compassion or humanity. How do you sleep at night? No matter what your opinions are, we will fight till we win.

        Back to 50’s women are a stronger, more resilient group than you think. Wev’e lived and worked through all manner of inequalities. We have had enough of being walked over. We support one another in this fight and you will not get away with your acts of manipulation in denying us our pensions.

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      • Dee… I’m in absolute agreement with you.
        The whole conservative government is walking over the very people who worked to make Great Britain GREAT.. and keep families together.
        From the top to the bottom they have no conscience. They are not even capable of agreeing to agree as to the best way forward for this country. It’s like watching naughty children.
        We women have to do something.
        I personally would happily join in a strike with all the other women affected and as sure as heck the media would then take notice.
        We are many…keep up the good fight..

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      • Thank you naggymum.for your comments and yes I’m passionate. This has cut me like you all to the core. We’ve all been given a cruel and harsh shock at a time of our lives most are looking forward to.

        I am no activist , I’ve never before commented like this in any site. I know what it’s been like throughout the 50’s and 60’s. Women were the underdogs, we put up, shut up and were told not to rock the boat. Our voices not heard because we had no equality we had no rights.

        Now the time as come and the worm has turned. I’ve changed from a quiet individual accepting all that’s thrown at me. But now no more……

        You will not do this to the 1950’s women because we will fight and fight and fight. Possibly till we are no more but DWP you will never forget us. You will be a part of this Countries history, the perpetrators of suffering. The Department of willfull purgatory.

        We will win because we’re right, but I know the government will try every trick in the book to delay paying out. You can try every trick in the book but we will still be pushing for a satisfactory conclusion till you do.

        Good luck to us all and let’s hope at the end of July something positive comes out of this.

        The government agencies may learn a valuable lesson.

        Dee

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      • I was born in 1955 .I have got 43yrs stamps on my card I have worked since I was 15yrs old .I am still working with 2 arthritic knees frozen shoulder tennis elbow I’m on tablets for pain rellief I’m on anovastatin for my heart. I’m separated from my husband and left the marital home and moved in with my son in 2012 and have been biding for a flat without success .I cannot express how much this government treat British born people .I was made redundant in Feb. Out of work 3 months on universal credit and didn’t get 1 penny because I had no housing costs and I drew 650 for my last wage and I have no savings .I ‘ve only got a 16hr contract as well shame on this goverment

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      • Absolutely….I’m 65 in October And fortunately still fit to work part time. My husband is just turning 70 so income really fixed…like you I have many full years paid… actually 48 as a few months out when I had my first child…

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  933. I was born in June 1954, I feel I have been duped by the government after the pension age was changed to 66 and 6 months as my retirement date is January 2021. I am not in good health as I suffer from Parkinson’s disease and have to force myself to go to work. If I had been born 3 months earlier it would be a different story. Poor health or not it is a disgrace that this government are getting away with downright robbery.

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    • Iam 62 on the 19th July and a friend of mine is the same age as my self she was told her retirement age was 66years 9months and 3days is this true you don’t get your pension nine months 3 days after 66 years

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      • Firefighters took to Supreme court re the discrimination used by the government and its agency over their pensions. The court found in favour of the firemen.

        Naturally the government and DWP would not accept the court. So they appealed the case and lost.

        Now I have read the government have now confirmed they accept the discrimination ruling and will apply this across the public sector. THATS BIG OF THEM!

        Does this case not clearly prove what a clueless bunch we have running this country. If these fire men hadn’t fought just like the back to 50’s women are. Would they have ever had their pensions resolved.

        It is totally not acceptable the scale of this governments mis management of pensions and benefits. Whilst MP’s and their agency swan about living a life of luxury. Just remember the poor sods who luxury is not having to go to a food bank one week. Having to walk 3 miles to work because they cant afford bus fares whilst riddled with arthritis.

        You should be ashamed of yourselves but where there’s no sense there’s no feeling.

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      • Well said Dee i agree with you 100% like you im 62 this year and its more aless saying your going to be nearly 67 before we can claim our pensions.we should be relaxing seeing our families i lost a great friend last year she was only 60 what happens to her pension she worked all her life.lets pray we win this case and make the goverment pay us back pension monies owed

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      • Joyce the pension dates are all different even if someone is only a couple of weeks or months older or younger than you. You need to go online, search women’s state pension age. There is a chart with dates of birth which tells you what your state pension date is.

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  935. I have yet to see any publicised evidence that amber rudd even acknowledges the back to 60s group or waspi woman who are fighting this cause. Amber rudd seems to have turned a blind eye to us 60+ woman in the hope that we will go away the DWP have a lot to answer for and a judicial reveiw should look at all failings where this department has failed over periods of time

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  936. any update yet
    Just retired x 5 years 5 months longer
    The grandchildren don’t need me any more missed out on their vital years at primary school due to this pension facade
    Regards Patricia

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  938. I was wondering if I can get some help.
    I was sixteen years old when I got married to a guyanese man, who was in the British army, his name was corporal Neville Subryan. After our marriage, we were a happy couple, until one day instead of him coming home from work. A person show up at my door. Telling me that my husband past away. I took him back to Guyana for his funeral , after that I started to get a pension of a few pounds a month, which was not enough to take care of me. Then a few years later the money stop coming to Guyana all together.
    Is there any way I can get the help I need to get my husband pension.

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  939. Well done to everyone who has fought to get to this point.,6 years slapped onto my pension age!! Hoping it will have a positive result for millions of women like myself.

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  940. Great news I’ve been working for 47 years this year since I was 16 got 3 years to go should never be that’s nearly all my life wrong wrong wrong please let this ho all the way and overturn the ruling xxxx

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    • Couldn’t agree more,how they got away with this is beyond belief. I’m 66 this year and certainly not fit enough to work full time.

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      • One of the most Hideous attacks on women’s rights,how Government officials hid and stopped there right,and then took it the highest courts is beyond belief. GIVE THEM THERE MONEY THATS OVER DUE NOW PLUS COMPENSATION. A CRIME A DISGRACE TO WOMEN KIND.

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      • I WORK IN A CARE HOME I AM 62 AND THE JOB ISN’T EASY. I HAVE SORE BACK AND MY HANDS ARE TOO.AND I HAVE TO WORK TILL I AM 66. THE PEOPLE THAT LOOK AFTER I THINK THEY NEED TO LOOK AFTER ME.I HOPE IT GOES WELL FINGERS CROSS. THANKS TO ALL,AND FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU HAVE DONE FOR THE LADY S OUT THERE.
        THANK YOU AGAIN

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      • I wish there was an update to this judicial review after waiting since 2018. Not only do we have to work until we are 66 but if we do choose to finish earlier and eek out a life using our own savings we find we get a reduced pension when we are 66 because we have apparently paid insufficient NI contributions! I have not had any children but did study so began full time work in my early twenties but have never had time off and yet, by the time I was 58, having worked for 35 years full time plus all the holidays and Saturdays from age 16 and chose to stop work and live on my savings this was insufficient NI to provide a full pension when I’m 66. So I owed them money OR get a lower pension! To me that is being penalised twice for a an unfair government decision.

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    • It’s disgraceful, we have all been treated despicably , I am 66 and pension started on my 65th birthday, 5 years late and 47k lost in pension.This being what now should be my enjoyment period, unfortunately in June this year I suffered a brain aneurysm and was close to death. These people have a lot to answer to !!

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