State Retirement Pensions: Females
(asked on 21st March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the financial effect on women of recent changes in the pension age
This question was answered on 27th March 2017
Women reaching State Pension age in 2016/17 are estimated to receive more State Pension on average over their lifetime than women ever have before.
By 2030, over 3 million women stand to gain an average of £550 per year through the introduction of the new State Pension.