06 October 2009

The nasty party sets its sights on women's pensions

Hey, it's no skin off my nose, as I will reach my 65th birthday well before the Tories plan to increase the pension age to 66.

I do wonder, however, about Georgie's tactics in announcing an increase in the men's pension age, while having nothing to say about that of women. Did he just forget? Or was it all too difficult? The women's pension age is at present scheduled to increase gradually from 60 to 65 between next spring and 2020. Are the Tories going to change that timetable to bring the women's pension age up to 66 within the next six years? If so, that may mean rather a lot of women failing to qualify for their state pension rather earlier than they had anticipated - that is from next year onwards.

I think women should be told what the Tories are planning.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"having nothing to say about that of women. Did he just forget? Or was it all too difficult?"

Or maybe they just don't have any plans to change Women's pensions.

Anonymous said...

Harriet Harmon should be along any moment to demand the same treatment for woman and then realise she's goofed again! Oops!