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Government to speed up timetable to equalise pension age

21 June 2011

Commenting on yesterday's Commons debate about changes to the state pension age for women, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers' union, said:

“The Government's insistence on sticking to its plan to speed up the equalisation of the state pension age for men and women is unfair. Women aged around 56 and 57 will be particularly hard hit.

“For women born between 6 December 1953 and 5 October 1954, the state pension age will be more than 18 months higher than currently expected. In the most extreme case, women born between 6 March and 5 April 1954, the state pension age would be 66, two years higher than previously planned.

“For the Government not to recognise the distress and financial difficulties this will cause many women is outrageous.

“This is yet another example of the Government's disregard of the circumstances of people who are time and again being hit by their unfair, unnecessary and punitive proposals.”



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