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Government is blasted over their baffling women’s state pension rise awareness campaign.
Women’s state pension age rose from 60-65 and will rise to 66 next year. The government spent millions of pounds on newspaper and magazine advertisements which were baffling. They featured dogs and monopoly boards and appeared in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Legal action is currently taking place on whether or not 3.8 million women born in the 1950s received an adequate warning that they would not receive their pensions until six years later.
Julie Delve 61 and Karen Glynn 62 have taken the Department of Work and Pensions to the High Court to argue that raising their pension age was age and sex discrimination.
Women that are affected say that they have lost out as much as £50,000 due to the change. A lot of women had already gone part-time or given up work altogether by the time they learned that they wouldn’t receive their pension at 60.
Internal government documents were produced at last months hearing by Michael Mansfield QC to prove that there was widespread ignorance among many women about the rise in women’s pension age. A final judgment is due within weeks.
Money Mail unearthed the adverts which have been slammed by experts and campaigners as ridiculous and inappropriate because they failed to make clear vital information.
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