UK. Women fight pension age changes in court
Nearly four million women born in the 1950s have been affected by the raising of the state pension age from 60 to 66. Two claimants who are part of the Back To 60 campaign group have now taken the Department for Work and Pensions to the High Court in London, arguing that the change “unlawfully discriminated against them on the grounds of age, sex, and age and sex combined”. They also claim that they were not given adequate notice. Deena Wild, 60, from Canterbury stands to lose £51,000 in pension payments under the changes, and Ursula Corbett, from Whitstable, Kent, will miss out on £27,000. Ms Wild says she is working part time and also relying on her dwindling savings to pay the bills until she turns 66, when she finally gets her pension.
Retired nurse Mrs Corbett is depending on an inheritance for money to live on. She said: “Some of my old school friends have had to downsize their houses due to the loss of money they were expecting.”
The women’s state pension age has been increased to match that of men.
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