A Women's Pension Network is being co-ordinated by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) as part of a campaign to reform the pensions system and close the pensions gap.
Backed by former Pensions Minister Baroness Hollis, and a number of leading organisations including the Association of British Insurers (ABI), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Age Concern, the EOC’s Women’s Pension Campaign has set out three building blocks of reform to tackle the problems women face in retirement. First of these points is the need for a common entitlement to the basic State pension, which would recognise the value of each person’s contribution, whether through paid work or caring for others. At the moment 2.2 million women are not accruing rights to the basic State pen...
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