{"id":6242,"date":"2016-02-29T02:22:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T19:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/injustice-of-retirement-age-change-for-women-letters\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T02:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T19:28:50","slug":"injustice-of-retirement-age-change-for-women-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/injustice-of-retirement-age-change-for-women-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Injustice of retirement age change for women | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIdentifying with Gaby Hinsliff\u2019s notion of \u201cknackered older women\u201d directly affected by the austerity pension cut, including the Tory MP Nadine Dorries, I certainly feel part of the \u201cwronged generation\u201d (Opinion, 26 February). Having worked as a teacher full time and then part time after having children, I am now contemplating retirement aged 66. My free national bus pass, which friends and relatives have had from age 60, will also not be accessible until then. Added to this, many of the boomerang generation of recent graduates have yet to achieve financial independence, and we fiftysomethings are holding on to permanent jobs to support children working as part of the new generation of \u201cflexible workers\u201d. Mostly this means zero-hours contracts. George Osborne\u2019s decision to equalise state pension retirement age for men and women, and subliminally accelerate the process, has certainly evoked a real sense of injustice. I may not be as \u201cexciting\u201d to the media as Helen Mirren, but I do have a vote, and the \u201cangry buzz\u201d of the Waspi campaign group is about to gain a new recruit.Rose KavanaghCambridge\u2022 There is contention with the Department for Work and Pensions about the original dates at which women were informed of proposed pensions changes, and it appears that many letters were not sent out until 2009, 14 years after the Pensions Act. What can\u2019t be disputed is that notice dates were again changed in 2011 (the \u201cfast-forwarding\u201d referred to by Gaby), making it unrealistic and unreasonable to expect women to change plans yet again before their expected retirement age. It is this \u201cmoving the goalposts\u201d without warning and essentially reneging on a contract which I think has particularly angered women of this age group.Larraine DuqueminAmble, Northumberland Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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