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#LabourPensions (pp75/6 of the #LabourManifesto )
Under the Tories, 400,000 pensioners have been pushed into poverty and a generation of women born in the 1950s have had their pension age changed without fair notification.
#WASPI #50sWomen

This betrayal left millions of women with no time to make alternative plans – with many devastating personal consequences. Labour recognises this injustice, and will work with these women to design systems of recompense for the losses and insecurity they have suffered.
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#Labour in Government will ensure that such an injustice can never happen again by legislating to prevent accrued rights to the state pension from being changed. (3/10)

The #Tories have repeatedly raised the state pension age, despite overseeing a DECLINE in life expectancy. Labour will abandon the Tories’ plans to raise the State Pension Age, leaving it at 66. (4/10)

We will review retirement ages for physically arduous and stressful occupations, including shift workers, in the public and private sectors. We will maintain the ‘triple lock’ and guarantee the #WinterFuelPayment, #freeTVlicences and #freebuspasses as UNIVERSAL benefits. (5/10)

Thanks to automatic enrolment, which was introduced by the last #LabourGovernment, record numbers of employees are now in workplace pension schemes. But too many people are still not saving enough for a comfortable retirement. (6/10)

We'll stop people being auto-enrolled into rip-off schemes & seek to widen & expand access for more low-income & self-employed workers. We'll establish an #IndependentPensionsCommission, modelled on the Low Pay Commission, to recommend target levels for #workplacepensions. (7/10)

We will create a single, comprehensive and publicly run #pensionsdashboard that is transparent, including information about costs and charges.
We will legislate to allow the CWU - Royal Mail agreement for a #collectivepensionscheme to proceed and allow similar schemes. (8/10)

#Labour has listened to #NUM and will end the injustice of the state taking 50% of the surplus in the #MineworkersPensionScheme, and introduce new sharing arrangements so that 10% goes to government and 90% stays with scheme members. (9/10)

This new sharing arrangement will also apply to the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme.

A #LabourGovernment will ensure that the pensions of UK citizens living overseas rise in line with pensions in Britain.
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