(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems and the Tories!)
In the coalition agreement, the Tories and Liberal Democrats said changes to the retirement age for women wouldn’t take place until at least 2020:
“We will phase out the default retirement age and hold a review to set the date at which the state pension age starts to rise to 66, although it will not be sooner than 2016 for men and 2020 for women.”
Unsurprisingly however, the coalition have broken the agreement. They’ve announced that changes to the State Pension Age would be brought in much sooner than they promised – with less than two years’ notice in some cases. This leaves tens of thousands of women approaching retirement age without a pension they’d planned for – sometimes for as long as 6 years.
A lot of men are also facing much longer waits for a state pension than they’d budgeted for.
Mind you – Lib Dem and Tory MPs aren’t daft.
Unlike everyone else – they’ve made sure MPs close to retirement got a ten-year exemption to changes to their own pensions:
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You can read more detail about the hypocrisy of the coalition on state pensions here:
Hypocritical Tories plan attack on pensioners while protecting themselves
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And you can sign a petition against the changes here:
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Please feel free to comment.
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Pride's Purge 
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Reblogged this on | truthaholics and commented:
Hypocrites – whatever happened to leading by example?
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Example booked a return ticket to nivana on the back of a Dodo
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I will never see a pension as I was a carer for 25 years before 18 months on JSA then on ESA until god knows when. I
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A recursive reblog as Tom links to my own article on this subject; it is well worth reviving and he’s to be congratulated for doing it, especially during an election period.
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Sadly Tom, you seem to blame the Tory Lib Dem coalition for this.
Maybe it’s past time for the people who elect these leaches to wake up and smell the coffee.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
This is another example of why politicians are now held in such massive contempt by the public. And Giles Brandreth keeps bravely trying to tell us that politicians go into politics from idealism, not to exploit the system. That might be so, but you’re going to have a very uphill struggle convincing anyone of this thanks to cases like this.
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Well said Mike, thanks too for your ongoing support on this
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Thanks for your support with this Tom. The petition currently stands at 14,469. Here’s the short link to the petition http://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/statepensionlaw
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this is bad, and a typical example of people “are made of paper attitude”… but those without co schemes or private pension plans, will be even worse off, as pension guaranteed credit vanishes with the pension age escalator, just imagine being on basic jsa or esa with sanctions and conditionality, with only the of state pension to rely on after one’s 66th birthday, or in some low job security type work/part time work, self-employed or on 0 hr contract, a nightmarish situation for millions…how many people are actually going to reach 66?
many men who were entitled to PGC @ 60 had to cash any other pensions in and still do, to get it, either that or carry on trying to get by on £72/week or less in many cases, until they get to 65/66, but whose up in arms about this? …i argue for a retirement age for all @ 62…
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i’m not quite right those on esa jsa get PCG automatically at the designated age range, but as state pension age rises, due to the pension age escalator, still have to comply with certain conditionalities and could/can still be sanctioned for now, but eventually every one on jsa/esa will have to fully comply and no one will get PGC…but, those with low income/insecure work, as described above, will have little option, but to struggle on, or sign on jsa or if sick and disabled claim esa till they are 66 or cash in their pensions prematurely, if they have them…all i can see from all of this is even more poverty….
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A retirement age for all at 62 would be just about perfect and a vast improvement on 65½ which is the age I now have wait for to be able to retire and live on my state pension, I left school at 15 and started working straight away, there weren’t any private pension schemes in the lowly but necessary jobs I held for most of my life, I’ve worked and paid in all these years and seen my retirement age raised not once but twice, the last time when I could actually see the finishing line, and yet MP’s have made darn sure their pensions and retirement are protected, that is what sickens me, they say we’re all in it together while they are in clover and we are in the mire. I’m living frugally now trying to put a bit aside to shave a few months off my retirement age, so by the time it comes to retirement I’ll be well used to living in poverty, just give me the chance! Thanks for all the help with blogging and sharing the petition, much appreciated.
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The loss of state pension at 60 to women began in 2013 and so far effects 530,000 women.
The Flat Rate Pension coming in 2016 is even worse, leaving many women with no money in old age forever.
The 2016 bill cuts women’s state pension the most, but also men’s (the rise in retirement age for men from 65 was supposed to start from then).
Other bills end men and women’s state pension if less than 10 years NI credit history.
This may well effect the men and women who have discovered they have no NI credit history.
National Insurance contributions are listed separately as a NI credit history, on each part-time job and not like wages gathered together for tax purposes.
So all those people on each job working less than 14 hours / earning less than £109 per week have nil state pension in the future. Even if earning well above the basic tax allowance for income tax between all their part-time jobs and far more than 14 hours in a week.
See if you lose most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
As half of women aged 60-66 are within the working poor, losing benefits.
And as the majority of women 60-66 not being in work is due to disability / chronic sick (you can be both) and those benefits being lost, and then sanctioned off unemployment benefits.
Then the loss of state pension is a life or death issue for many women.
You get state pension payout if you remain in work or not. There is no compulsion to retire as that is ageism.
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And what do I do from 60 to 62. Live on fresh air?
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
And the 2016 bill destroys women’s state pension altogether for millions into the future.
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mp’s play a blinder, do as we say not as we do, shield themselves from the draconia that they knowingly create…..i too am poverty trained to live on sniff of an oil rag…£72/wk to £150/wk will be a profound shock to one’s system…
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Oh by the way I signed Anne Keen’s petition. My petition also needs signing as the raised retirement age for men and women means we are hit by the Flat Rate Pension 2016 changes that mean no money in old age for many men and far more women.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
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i know it is bad…men can get jsa or esa, so can women..PGC will vanish that’s the problem…there has to be a mechanism for topping up co/private pensions to £150/wk
+ rent/mortgage/ct relief, and there is not….
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This is what the coalition wanted from the beginning. Of course they lied, the lied about everything else, and continue to do so.
It’ll be getting up in the early morning to go to work, no matter what age and includes children, and not getting off work until late at night. All that for a few pounds a week and maybe a hot sloppy dinner from them around lunchtime.
Going backwards? Of course we are and we are letting them!
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Pension petition!!!
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your point is flawed, this is happening all over the public sector in regards to age as of … within 10 years of retirement, not just MPs! as of that date.. went out to all public sector workers! you are just biased and not done any research.
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Maybe time for a petition on change.org – the private and public sectors should be treated more equally, or maybe the bias should be in favour of those in the private sector with no final salary schemes – after all most of those have disappeared in the past 20 years, leaving us all with money purchase schemes that are fraught with high charges and the risk of losing it all.
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Agree with you David – please sign and share http://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/statepensionlaw
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I will be sharing this every day on Facebook. It is appalling what the Government are doing – yet again lining their own pockets at the expense of the masses.
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Thanks for your support – the petition currently at 18,189! Great response to Tom’s re-post. Please continue to share. http://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/statepensionlaw
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When I discovered 2 years ago that a further 18 months had been added to my retirement age I was furious and signed every petition, wrote to my MP, watched the debate in parliament and the con/dems still went ahead. Watching them dismissing the plight of women facing changes so close to retiring made me so angry, and to realise they’ve exempted themselves from the same changes if they are within 10 years of retirement, and imposed those same changes on us beggars belief! All of us have now lost the original phased in dates. How can discrimination like this be allowed? In European elections this year we voted UKIP and it was great seeing the shock on LibDems faces and the Tories well just wait until the general election next year! Guess what? Women have the vote now!
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We, aided by the Labour Party, Unions Together and to some extent Age UK put up a good fight against the raise in SPA for women born in 53/4/5 in 2011 but at that time a lot of women weren’t even aware it was happening and so those of us who did and who tried to stop it were merely trampled into the mud in the condem stampede to ram the raise through, now that it is starting to affect people, stopping their retirement plans from happening they are getting a nasty shock and shouting about it. Meanwhile MP’s are smugly assured of their pensions. I can’t see that voting Ukip will do any good, Farage is of the same mind, you want to wait till you’re 70 to get your state pension? Vote Ukip. Me, I’m voting Labour.
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This makes me totally sick, the hypoctites, I’m ok so up yours is their attitude.
I’m a disabled lady and in the support group and get DLA, i thought at 58 i would have 2 years to fight the system.. aka retire… now it turns out that thanks to these lying vermin i now have 8 years and i don’t know if i can fight that long. The continued justification of being disabled and having to repeatedly fill in forms every 6 months for my meagre pittance is now having an effect on my mental health.
Why when anyone is classed as disabled and simply cannot work can’t they let them retire at 60 ( the words the dwp used in my paperwork, the multiple illnesses are disabling, degenerative, will not improve and work in the long term is unlikely).
there is little chance of anyone that age gaining employment let alone a disabled person. Let us retire, stop harassing and bullying us and leave the job market open to the youngsters who need to get on the job ladder.
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