Pensions minister Steve Webb said the proposals to change the state pension age will be reconsidered.
The bill contains controversial changes to the state pension, including raising the state pension age to 66 by 2020. The move will hit some women in their 50s disproportionately hard, and a petition run by Unions Together and signed by 100,000 people will be presented to the minister today in Westminster. Webb said the government will "reflect" on women whose state pension age would rise by between one and two years under the new proposals. No date for the second reading of the pensions bill has been set yet, but it is expected in the next few weeks. Age UK has also taken actio...
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