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Women like us, #50sWomen #Backto60 #CEDAWPeoplesTribunal #CEDAWinLaw #WePaidInYouPayOut #Waspi
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1/ WOMEN LIKE ME were born in a different era
Women like me were fed a set of rules on how women should behave and what they should expect to achieve in life
Women like me faced prejudice in education and opportunity
Women like me were restricted in our choice of jobs

2/ Women like me could not take a loan or a mortgage without husband to guarantor, in some cases not even open a bank account.

3/ Women like me were not paid the same as men, even after equal rights acts (employers had ways of labelling your job title or description as not the same as a mans).

4/ Women like me signed a specific contract with Government when we married which promised us pension at 60, Government broke that contract with my generation
Women like me had to leave jobs when we married or got pregnant

5/ Women like me were often denied promotion or training in the workplace like men
Women like me lost a years contribution on NI records if short of 1 weeks credit
Women like me did not get NI credits when pregnant or in hospital, so lost NI qualifying years.

6/ Women like me lost careers when pregnant, maternity benefit was not as it is now and jobs did not have to be held open for you to return.
Women like me had no childcare or nursery care help

7/ Women like me had child benefit paid to the husband, women were not deemed intelligent or responsible enough to handle such finances!
Women like me had a married persons tax credit given to the husband, not us.

8/ Women like me lost any husband’s pensions benefit there might have been if they got divorced
Women like me struggled most of our working lives in jobs with less opportunity and pay
Women like me were denied the chance of joining company pension schemes

9/ Women like me did not get properly informed of the changes that government applied to us
Women like me did not know about the flat rate pension rates government would apply in 2016

10/ Women like me did not know the new flat rate affected many other rules, including loss of previous additional contributions, changes over the years with serps, graduated pension schemes, loss of widows benefit, the option of bus pass, pension credits, heating allowance,

11/ we lost a lot and were not informed.
Women like me may have spent 51 years working but may still not qualify for the new full flat rate pension, they have ways of calculating that allow them to make deductions, many of which revolve around lost years if changing jobs,

12/ pregnancies, hospital time, or time taken to look after or care for family members (no carers allowances years ago).
Women like me are facing a pension that is far below the minimum wage level or basic survival level

13/ Women like me have no savings, no private pensions and little resources, through little fault of our own (read the above!).
Women like me are facing long term poverty, many have lost their homes or what little they had

14/ Women like me have paid a heavy price and despite what the media would have the public believe the truth is a different story.

15/ Women like me who faced all this prejudice and constraint, with a contract broken and had 6 years added to their working lives saved the government billions or however much the figure was.

16/ Women like me gave this to our society and government, and the money taken from us was used to reduce the national debt.

17/ Women like me PAID down the national debt with great sacrifice (see the letter below that no one wants to talk about or admit), a debt that belonged to the whole country, NOT JUST WOMEN LIKE ME!

18/ The media needs to tell the truth and stop feeding the public a biased opinion about women like me, and pensioners as a whole.

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