WASPI

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Aveline

The research showed that a large percentage of women did not receive notification of this change. As a 1954 woman I lost out the most and by a very short time. My friend with a birthday the month before me got her pension and I, a month later, had a 6 year wait. I won't forget this.

I was born late 1953 and I got my pension at 64yesrs and 10 months. I don't understand how your friend got her pension six years before you.

Yes, everyone who expected to retire at 60 but had to work to 66 lost six years. I don't follow how some lost more than others.

It was introduced on a sliding scale so I don't understand how someone waited an extra six years because of a month later birthday. It didn't work like that.

Here's the chart:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pension-age-timetable/state-pension-age-timetable

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Here's the chart:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pension-age-timetable/state-pension-age-timetable

Thanks. Looking at that if I'd been born 8 hours earlier I would have got my pension 2 months earlier. So it changes but not six years because of a month's difference in age.

I can't count. If I'd been born eight hours earlier I'd have got my pension 4 months earlier. Expensive eight hours.

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Note this Pension Service leaflet imprint August 2004 so nine years after the Pensions Act 1995.

It says:

In 2020 when the State Pension age for women is raised from 60 to 65 …

If your 60th birthday was in 2015, what would you infer from that statement? That you would get your pension at 60?

As I wrote upthread, three years later in 2007, I also had a letter from the Pension Service telling me I could claim my SP when I was 60. This was accompanied by a leaflet BB1 imprint 2006 which said SP age for men was 65 and women 60 - which technically it was then but no mention of the coming changes.

Just how much misinformation was there and for how long?

Indeed.

This is exactly what millions of women are saying - thank you Graphite for explaining what the DWP did (or didn't do!) regarding information. It's not a simple matter of being peeved at having to work until 66 or 67, it's the miscommunication and maladministration that should be compensated for, which of course is exactly what the Ombudsman found. I was born in 1961 so am not considered a WASPI, but my sisters were born in the 50s and fall into this cohort. They do deserve some compensation and an apology for the way the whole thing was handled.

I'm not a WASPI either and have 2 years and 5 months to go before I receive my pension. You say that you were aware of the changes and were kept informed by the payroll office and that your employer made sure that all female employees knew about the changes. This suggests you worked for a large organisation which probably had a payroll and HR department. Alot of women in their 60s have had part time jobs with small companies or in shops, cafés etc where there is none of that kind of support.

I have always read the papers and watched the news, but if the government decides to put my pension age up to 68 instead of 67, how will I know that until it happens? I would literally have no money for a year. This is what happened to these women born in the mid 50s. 😕

Ali61

I'm not a WASPI either and have 2 years and 5 months to go before I receive my pension. You say that you were aware of the changes and were kept informed by the payroll office and that your employer made sure that all female employees knew about the changes. This suggests you worked for a large organisation which probably had a payroll and HR department. Alot of women in their 60s have had part time jobs with small companies or in shops, cafés etc where there is none of that kind of support.

I have always read the papers and watched the news, but if the government decides to put my pension age up to 68 instead of 67, how will I know that until it happens? I would literally have no money for a year. This is what happened to these women born in the mid 50s. 😕

There's a state pension age calculator
www.gov.uk/check-state-pension
'Use this service to find out:
how much State Pension you could get
when you can get it
if you can increase it
how you could increase it (for example, by paying to fill gaps)'

Obviously 50s women didn't have Internet access like we have
today, but learn from 50s women, this may change (like when a Chancellor wants a few easy quid and sees women as a soft touch)

Bit late to the party here, but I had two letters, the second pushing the date back further!