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Campaigners raise £65,000 for legal challenge to women's state pension changes

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WASPI may seek a judicial review on the legality of the changes...
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Jumping on a bandwagon without realising what you are campaigning for. When MSE backed the campaign, Waspi wanted a return to age 60 for Women. MSE need to learn that not every campaign has merits or fairness. Does MSE still support the original aim of WASPI or has MSE changed it's position? I never thought that MSE or Martin Lewis would be in favour of gender discrimination.
From the MSE article:
These changes mean women born after 5 April 1950 will receive their state pensions
Changes made over 20 years ago. Plenty of time if you are going to harp on about the full difference.
Most people feel that the 2011 changes were too quick for some women. Being told you have an extra 18 months before getting the state pension when you are that close to retirement is not fair. If the focus was on that and not the 1995 changes then maybe there would be more support than under 200,000 signatures.
Same questions to all other WASPI supporters.
If you hadn't realised it, the new state pension that women who reach their state pension age after 6 April 2016 get is higher for most women than the old one. That's part of its purpose. Which is why in PM's questions on 12 October the Prime Minister, who is in the WASPI2's age range, replied:
"The hon. Lady should know that transitional arrangements are already in place. We did make changes. We committed £1 billion to lessen the impact of the state pension age changes on those who were affected, so that no one would experience a change of more than 18 months. In fact, 81% of women’s state pension ages will increase by no more than 12 months, compared to the previous timetable.
The Department for Work and Pensions informed people of the change in the state pension age after the changes that were made in 2011. Moreover, in the future women will gain from the new pension arrangements that are being introduced. Women’s pensions are a long-standing issue, but there will be better pension arrangements for them in the future because of the changes that the Government have made."
The summary of pension age rises is also incorrect - although the linked gov.uk page gives the proper details.
I would be more sympathetic if they were just campaigning about the 2011 changes, which put my own SPA age up from 65 to 66. I have no problems with the 1995 changes - they were well overdue, and well advertised in the media. But no, what they want (and they are prepared to scweam and scweam and scweam until they get it) is for ALL women born on or before 31 December 1959 to get their State pensions at 60, whereas it's ok for women born on or after 1 January 1960 to wait until 66/67.
And I still can't get my head round why they call themselves WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) - shouldn't it be WASPE (Women Against State Pension Equality)?
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When they talk about equality, they don't have gender equality in mind. What they are talking about is women who were born before April 6 1950, i.e. whose state pension age was 60. That's what they really want, a state pension paid from age 60. Naturally, they also want it at the full new rate of £155.65 a week, regardless of any contracting out, and they couldn't care less who pays. Their greed knows no bounds.
do you now appreciate the benefit of reading newspapers and keeping oneself informed of current affairs?