State pension fury: 1950s women not allowed to pay into pot - 'Our lives are intolerable'

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STATE PENSION age changes have forced women in their 60s back to work but campaigners have claimed this has made the lives of 1950s-born women 'intolerable'.

age for women rose to 65 to bring it into line with men and will go up to 66 by 2020, and 67 by 2028. But campaign group Backto60's UN representative, Davina Lloyd explained 1950s women were not the generation to have their pensions changed due to them being unable to work or earn a high enough salary to add to a pension. She noted that 1950s womens' lives have been"intolerable" by the age change.Speaking to Express.co.

 

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Should not have happened after 1975 sex discrimination act when last of 1950s were still at school. How many actually missed out, even Woolies offered an employee pension scheme to women before 1975.

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