YORK MP Hugh Bayley has hit out at Government plans to change the date when some women will receive their pensions.
Women born between December 6, 1953, and October 5, 1954, will have to wait an extra 18 months, and an unlucky 33,000 born between March 6, 1954, and April 5, 1954, will have to wait an extra two years, before being entitled to receive their state pension.
Mr Bayley said the rise will force 2,100 women in York to wait for more than a year longer than planned before receiving their pension.
He said: “Many are women who have juggled their working lives with raising a family, and have very little retirement savings to fall back on. The lack of warning about these changes means they do not have enough time to adjust carefully thought-out retirement plans and leaves them much worse off. That’s why I voted against these unfair plans.”
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