Women lose landmark legal fight against state pension age rise - MSE News 3 October 2019 at 10:32AM in Pensions, annuities & retirement planning 222 replies 17.4K views

Former_MSE_Callum

Women affected by changes to the state pension age have lost their High Court fight against the Government...

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'Women lose landmark legal fight against state pension age rise'

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minty777

Homeless and destitute:wall:


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/state-pension-age-women-waspi-high-court-discrimination-case-lost-sexism-a9135961.html

molerat

Oh dear, how sad, never mind
Alternative headline ... Entitled Money Grabbers Lose In Court !

rawhammered

And no tears were shed

SonOf

Good that they lost. Mostly a greedy bunch of women trying to money grab for personal gain.

They should have focused on the 2011 changes which were unfair to a small group and not focused on the 1995 changes which gave plenty of notice.

ArcticRoll

Had they succeeded and the law changed, from the date of the new legislation would men born at the same time not have a case to pursue to argue that from the point the law was amended that they were victims of discrimination?

Arguing, essentially, that moving away from a point of gender discrimination was gender discrimination was always going to be a hard sell.

redux

Unsurprising, given that many other women equally affected thought they'd been notified well enough, and didn't see merit in this campaign.

... arguing that raising their pension age "unlawfully discriminated against them on the grounds of age, sex, and age and sex combined".

Surely there is some irony in this claim. The policy change was to zero out previous discrimination in their favour, and not worse than that.

I don't see why they've said they will appeal. From a brief reading of this, it sounds like they've presented a poor case badly, with extra detail which isn't relevant. That isn't the court's fault. Maybe they need better legal advice: when your case is weak don't bother.

pip895

I think saying that they are all Money grabbers is a little harsh - there are undoubtedly some who have been made "homeless and destitute" . Sadly there are many out there, not necessarily born in the 50s, whose financial gullibility/ineptitude has resulted in the same. The monies used on lawyers fees would have been much better spent helping them directly.

jem16

As a 50s' born woman, the right Judgment was made.

I would have liked to see some redress for those born late 53 and all 54 as they were badly hit by the 2011 Act. However the case was badly handled.

MMQC should retire now. He's lost his touch.

minislim

sensible decision.

women want equality to men. so pensions was being aligned.

you cant have it both ways.

zagfles

The MSE story doesn't mention the dismissal of the ridiculous claim that legislation correcting inequality was discriminatory!
The media summary is here:
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Delve-and-Glynn-v-SSWP-media-summary-v-2-002.pdf