State pension age for women

GwylimT

My mum did this really amazing thing, she actually read the multiple letters that came through the post, she even did something more amazing, she upped her private pension contributions so she could still retire from her job at 60.

Pollycat

SnowMan wrote: »

I have some sympathy for those woman given very limited notice of the acceleration of the increase of State Pension Age to age 65.

I'm one of the women affected by the later change.

I've known (it seems like forever) that my State Pension age would be April 2017 instead of October 2013 (I'm 62 soon).
But at very short notice it's been put back to July 2018.

SnowMan wrote: »

That Wendy can go on moneybox and misrepresent the facts in this way is disappointing and embarrassing. Wendy was clearly aware that SPA was increasing from 60 to 65 (or else why would she have said 60 years and 9 months). So the real problem has clearly been Wendy's own failing to check out how the change announced 30 years ago affected her.

I find it shocking that interviewers allow people (not just Wendy) to spout absolute rubbish on all sorts of subects.
Why don't they go through the 'issues' some people have before they air the interview so that any misconceptions can be highlighted and the dross weeded out?

I'm turning into a grumpy old woman shouting at the TV.

I recall This Morning doing a spot about the State Pension age for women ages ago and the mis-information broadcasrt by Ruth Langsford was unbelievable.

p00hsticks

GwylimT wrote: »

My mum did this really amazing thing, she actually read the multiple letters that came through the post, she even did something more amazing, she upped her private pension contributions so she could still retire from her job at 60.

Some of the contributors on the MoneyBox article seemed to think that the DWP should have been sending out more communications.

I'm not affected by the 2011 changes, but was by the original 1995 ones. I can't recall getting anything to advise me of these changes at the time (although I may have) , but then by the same criteria, I don't believe I received anything sent to me personally in writing at the start of my working life telling me that my State Pension Age was 60, nor would I have expected to.

I've been well aware of the changes because I take a basic interest in what's going on in the country and our government.

Even prior to the growth of the internet, information was still readily accessible via newspapers, TV and radio news and public libraries.

In my opinion, those who are not prepared to take any interest in what is going on around them must accept the consequences of being ill-informed.

bigfreddiel

It's not being ill informed that's the problem, it's this attitude of "no one told me......". It seems the state is to blame for not telling us everything, some times I wonder if people manage to get to work everyday without their mother's dressing them and then taking them to work!

fj