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State Pension Age and Triple Lock

February 28, 2017 Ros Altmann Comments 1 comment

28 February 2017 Triple lock will lead to extra unfair rises in State Pension Age Work and Pensions Select Committee is right to call for earnings and inflation link instead of triple lock Continually raising State Pension age disadvantages vulnerable older people Politicians hide behind triple lock but it does not protect pensioners properly anyway Keeping triple lock in future gives more money to better off and younger pensioners Raising State Pension Age disadvantages vulnerable groups: Raising the state pension…

Cridland State Pension age independent review: interim report.

October 13, 2016 Ros Altmann Comments 2 comments

13 October, 2016 Here are my thoughts and comments on the Cridland State Pension age independent review: interim report. As Cridland considers the options, Government has a chance to make State Pension policy fairer Consider extending number of years for full pension, rather just than raising state pension age Current system gives higher state pension to people healthy or wealthy enough to wait and work longer, but often disadvantages those with longest working lives or poor health Continually increasing State…

Government must tell people that State Pension age will be 66 soon

September 11, 2016 Ros Altmann Comments 9 comments

11 September 2016 Government must make sure people know that by 2020 you won’t get your State Pension at 65 DWP should learn lessons from the failure to adequately inform women about past changes In four years’ time the State Pension Age will be 66 – DWP must publicise this properly By October 2020 the state pension age will be 66, so nobody reaching age 65 will get a state pension. I am concerned that millions of men and women…