WASPI

I didn't get a letter but I knew from the news and a Union rep told us when i started working for the NHS.

I got a letter around my 60th birthday letting me know that I would not get my pension at 60.I do remember when it was first announced in the news years before, when I was in my early 40s.
What I did not get was a letter when my pension date was approaching asking me to apply for my pension, which I thought they usually did.

I didn't get a letter

I can’t remember if I did or didn’t to be honest but I certainly knew about it because it was all over the news and in the papers.
I was born in ‘58 so had to wait an extra 6 years so definitely not happy about it but I can understand why it had to happen .
But what I can’t understand though is wether you got a letter or not what actual difference would it have made to most women,
How would you have been more prepared - would you have looked for a better job? Paid more into your own private pension?

Nope no letter

I didn't get a letter 🙁

I received a letter to tell me the age for people born between 1950 and 1955. I was born in 1953 so it would affect me . It worked out that I was born 3years 1 month and fourteen days after the 5th April 1950 , so this was the amount of time after my 60th birthday that I would have to wait for my pension.
I had got used to that idea when I received a second letter to tell me that that calculation had changed and I would now have to work about another 4 months , making me 63 and a half when I finally reached pension age .
I , like you, couldn’t be the only woman that got these letters .

I did get a letter notifying me. All my friends had letters too. It was in the papers and on the news. It was a topic of conversation with friends similar age and also among work colleagues. I do find it hard to believe that anyone didn’t know about the rise in pension age for women. I didn’t like having to wait until 66 to get my pension but I knew about it. Still feel resentful though that David Cameron increased my pension age from 65 to 66 as part of his austerity measures.

I didn’t get a letter but was aware of the forthcoming changes from the news. But then I always took an interest in politics.

I too had a letter, I remember it being shown on TV news, and was certainly in the paper. Although the changes were announced about 15 years before implementation, some women did not receive adequate warning, although I cannot see how it was that many that are claiming. How many had a letter and paid no attention to it.