Pension minister's response to WASPI debate angers MPs

In Wednesday's House of Commons debate, MPs backed calls for "transitional arrangements" for women born after 1951, who have been affected by the changes to the state pension age with what was claimed to be insufficient notice. The state pension changes were first introduced under the 1995 Pension Act that set out to equalise women's state pension age to men's at 65 years old. However, the campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) has claimed some women had little notice, or were unaware entirely, they would not get a pension at 60. The changes were implemented ...