State Retirement Pensions: Females
(asked on 28th June 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on implementing pension transitional protection arrangements for women born in the 1950s.
This question was answered on 3rd July 2017
The Secretary of State has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues including the Chancellor of the Exchequer on a range of issues.
The Government will not be revisiting the State Pension age arrangements for women affected by the Pensions Act 1995 and Pensions Act 2011. These women will receive their State Pension either at the same age as men or earlier as we remove the current inequality.