Malcolm McLean: WASPI campaign continues - but to what end?

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Malcolm McLean explains why he believes the chances of an equitable solution for Women against State Pensions Inequality campaigners do not seem very likely now

State Pension Equalisation Day on 6 November has come and gone, but the campaign in support of those women born in the 1950s who have experienced changes in their state pension age carries on. Both the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) and the separate splinter group known as Back to 60 claims that when the 1995 Pension Act included plans to increase the women's state pension age to 65 - the same as men's - the changes were implemented unfairly, with little or no personal notice. The group is also claiming that the acceleration to the staging-in progamme for the age chang...

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