WASPI meeting with Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Tim had a good meeting with the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the Rt Hon Stephen Crabb MP, this evening about WASPI - Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign and he will come back with a response to my suggestions shortly.

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Women State Pension Inequality

Changes that came in a number of years ago are impacting on women born in the 1950s and are seeing their pensionable age rise from 60 to 66. I have had a number of representations from constituents and I think the changes are unfair. Whilst I am supportive of equalising the pensionable age between men and women, what I think has been missed here is that these women have been given very little notice of when these changes were coming in, in some cases just 18 months. This gave them very little time to make other previsions.