Nearly 47,000 people have signed a parliamentary petition calling for fair transitional arrangements for women born on or after 6th April 1951 who are affected by the state pension age increase.
The petition, which runs to April 2016, was created by action group Women Against State Pension Inequality.
It states that, while the 1995 Conservative government’s Pension Act included plans to increase women’s SPA to 65 – the same as men’s – the changes were implemented unfairly, with little or no personal notice (1995/2011 Pension Acts), faster than promised (2011 Pension Act), and left women with no time to make alternative plans, leading to devastating consequences.