It is unlikely the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign will make any further headway due to a total lack of support in government, former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has said.
Campaign group WASPI say changes to the state pension age have placed an unfair burden on hundreds of thousands of women born in the 1950s. They want these women to be given more time to prepare for the changes - which equalise state pension ages between men and women - which were sped up by the coalition government. Altmann said her support for the women put her at risk during her tenure as pensions minister as it alienated many Conservative MPs and ministers. She said the there is no backing for the movement at the highest level of the Conservative party and while some Tory MPs did...
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