'Don't move the goal posts again' - women campaign against increase to state pension age

18 May 2011

Age UK invited women to join campaigners at Westminster today to protest against the speeding up of the State Pension Age.

Age UK is warning that the Government's planned proposals to increase the State Pension Age to 66 by 2020 - six years earlier than planned - doesn't leave enough time to plan for a later state pension age and risks plunging hundreds of thousands of women in to poverty.

All women born between 6th April 1953 and 5th April 1960 will be affected by the changes. State Pension Age will be increased for 2.6 million women but 330,000 women across the country will be hit hardest, having to wait between 18 months and two years longer for their state pension. The 33,000 women who will have to wait an extra two years will lose on average 10,000 of state pension income as a result. These women have already been asked to move their State Pension Age to 65 and this is the second time they will face having to retire even later.

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