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
10. Several FURTHER examples of DWP mismanagement of women's #pensions have come to light, in addition to failing to write to #50sWomen for 14+yrs
💥Underpayment to older women
💥Repeated miscalculations for widowed/divorced
💥Delays to 1st payment even though benefits stopped
11. 💥No means to claim for loss of #GuaranteedMinimumPension payments affecting many women, despite #PHSO request
💥In 2017-18, >71% of #pensions tax relief went to men
💥3m♀️ don't earn enough to have #autoenrolment, which widens gap between low & high earners anyway
12. 💥Among 65–74 yr-olds median private pension wealth is £182.4k for men & £25k for women
💥1.2m ♀️ in their 50s have NO private pension
💥#GenderPensionsGap is still approx.38%
💥MPs protected their own pension scheme for anyone within 10 yrs of retirement #FullRestitution
#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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My experience of "responding with comments" to #PHSO regarding the derisory provisional offer of £1000 for #maladministration is that comments are ignored
"On 8 Dec 2022 we updated our website as we completed & closed stage 2 of our investigation" #50sWomen#DirectDiscrimination
"Am I, as a #50sWomen affected by this travesty of #injustice, permitted to complain about the stage 1 & 2 findings or not?
I feel as though my concerns are being ignored"
"We are not accepting any new complaints about these issues at present"
1."The balance it (the Court) has fixed upon now favours Govt power over claims of individuals" Aidan O'Neill QC #50sWomen certainly feel victims of an imbalance of power in the way #SupremeCourt dismissed their case as "out of time" #WednesburyUnreasonableness #FullRestitution
2. #50sWomen suspect that judges in High Court #judicialreview may have been unduly influenced by Govt misrepresentation of the impact of a positive judgement in favour of our claim
➡️suggestion of "opening floodgates" of similar claims & "unaffordability"
Should be irrelevant!
3.
Prof Conor Gearty QC:
The post 2020 #SupremeCourt has reverted to....."legal formalism"...."displaying an old-school lack of interest in the lived experience of those whose plight have brought them to judges' attention"
Too true for #50sWomen #WaspiFullRestitutionNow
Who is being let down by current #pensions policy?
⚡low paid
⚡self employed
⚡#men & #women in their 40s
⚡Part time workers below £10k threshold for autoenrolment
⚡carers
⚡mothers not claiming child benefit #PMQs #50sWomen recognise the shortcomings! #FullRestitution
Strange isn't it (or maybe not!) how many of the groups let down by #pensions policy contain significantly large numbers of #women?
Younger #women would do well to support #50sWomen, who have seen all these failings coming & are fighting on YOUR BEHALF to force Govt action!
@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