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#BackTo60 #FullRestitution
1. 1st they came for #50sWomen as they:
💥initially added 5 yrs to our State Pension Age whilst deliberately not telling us
💥took no notice of the lifetime of inequality suffered by #50sWomen
💥or that their private pensions are a fraction of men's
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2.
💥& auto-enrolment discriminates against women
💥ignored their own pensions committee report that told them exactly those things
💥& the unpaid caring many women carry out
💥then accelerated the rise in SPA by several years
💥& added another year to the SPA for women & men
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3.
💥reneged on a promise to give women auto-credits that 9.8 million men had been given over 35 years
💥increased the qualifying years to 35
💥reduced widows' pensions especially for those on the New State Pension
💥raised the age at which a couple could get pension credit
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7. Since I wrote 🧵⬆️ Oct 2020:
💥Disability-free life expectancy has gone into reverse, especially for #women, now 62 yrs
💥 Life expectancy flatlined since 2010
💥Supreme Court rejected #BackTo60 judicial review appeal as "out of time" #WednesburyUnreasonableness?
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8.
💥#triplelock suspended contrary to manifesto promise, further devaluing #StatePension FOREVER
💥just as many asset-stripped #50sWomen finally reach or near twice-delayed retirement
💥220k #50sWomen will have died by end 2022
9.
💥 #EDM2296 supported by 225 MPs across parties was timed out by the illegal? prorogation of Parliament
💥 @UKLabour put 58bn on the table to resolve the #50sWomen issue but weren't elected
💥 @PHSOmbudsman is carrying out a much delayed & many would argue flawed investigation
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@threadreaderapp 7. Since I wrote 🧵⬆️ Oct 2020:
💥Disability-free life expectancy has gone into reverse, especially for #women, now 62 yrs
💥 Life expectancy flatlined since 2010
💥Supreme Court rejected #BackTo60 judicial review appeal as "out of time" #WednesburyUnreasonableness?
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8.
💥#triplelock suspended contrary to manifesto promise, further devaluing #StatePension FOREVER
💥just as many asset-stripped #50sWomen finally reach or near twice-delayed retirement
💥220k #50sWomen will have died by end 2022
9.
💥 #EDM2296 supported by 225 MPs across parties was timed out by the illegal? prorogation of Parliament
💥 @UKLabour put 58bn on the table to resolve the #50sWomen issue but weren't elected
💥 @PHSOmbudsman is carrying out a much delayed & many would argue flawed investigation
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1. 🧵from Women's Budget Group re Autumn Budget 2021

#COP26
#COP26Glasgow
#Pensions
#HappyHalloween2021

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wbg.org.uk/analysis/autum…
2. Public expenditure on State Pensions in the UK is among the lowest in the OECD; this reflects the fact that the main state pension for current pensioners is nearly £40 per week less than the government’s own poverty threshold (the means-tested minimum guarantee Pension Credit)
3. The new Single Tier Pension is just above the single rate of Pension Credit but due to transitional rules, it will be decades before women generally receive as much state pension as men.

#COP26
#StatePension
#50sWomen
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Thread on the massive help @DWP @10DowningStreet + @hmtreasury + others are giving to:
- help firms with pension contributions to pay
- safeguard your pension
- help our vulnerable pensioners
- ensure pension scams are avoided 1/
Working with @TPRgovuk we have helped Defined Contribution employers by ensuring their Automatic Enrolment contributions are covered by the #Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme 2/
thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/covid-19-co…
We have cancelled the 10% rise in the #PensionsLevy helping the industry cope in these difficult times 3/ professionalpensions.com/news/4013268/g…
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The first time I wrote about the problem of state pension inequality for 1950s women was back in 2016. I mentioned the 'cold hard knot of anger' - that's not gone away. #waspi #StatePension newstatesman.com/politics/femin…
Then I had another go a couple of weeks later. newstatesman.com/politics/femin… #waspi #statepension
And I wrote another piece in March. I wish I could feel as though any of it made a difference. newstatesman.com/politics/econo… #waspi #StatePension
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