Cameron defends women's state pension plans

Under current proposals, the SPA will reach 66 by 2020 instead of the previous staging date of 2026. This means female SPA will rise by six years in 2020 as opposed to one year for men and around 300,000 women in their fifties will have to wait up to two years longer to claim their pensions. Pressure has been growing for the government to make changes to the Pensions Bill, which includes draft legislation on women's SPA, but Cameron defended the policy. He said: "The key fact is 85% of the women affected are going to lose one year or less in terms of their pension. "Because we h...