women over 60 facing poverty could start an apprenticeship

[DemolitionRed]

women over 60 facing poverty could start an apprenticeship (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40511545)

You've got to love how the Tory MPs are just so in touch. I think that it's right to honour these ladies pensions.

*The SNP's Mhairi Black said it was "laughable" the problem could not be fixed when the government had found £1bn to fund its deal with the DUP.

*Turning to Mr Opperman, a pensions minister, she said it was "laughable" that the government "can find a billion pounds for a deal to cling on to power, but we cannot find the money to give women the pensions that they are due".

*"The only other two things they are guilty of is being born in the 50s and the fact they are women."

Thoughts?

[Kizzy]

They have been royally shafted, my brothers wife is one of these women and has arthritis she's worried that the progression will mean that after 60 her job will be impossible. I saw the speech Mhairi gave and it was fantastic, I hope she and others keep the pressure on.

It's possibly another reason for this govt wanting out of the EU so fast, as many of their money saving policies unduly target vulnerable groups and are being found to be unlawful.

[Cherie]

The goalposts are constantly shifting, its Just about palatable if they shift when there is time to redress the balance but for a lot of these women they shifted just as they were about to retire, terrible treatment of Britsh citizens

[smudgie]

Perhaps the option should have been given to double pension contributions to pay for us living twice as long and longer on the pension than we used to..wonder how many would agree to this.
It might get to the point where this is the only option, unless we are expected to work until our late seventies.

[Cherie]

Perhaps the option should have been given to double pension contributions to pay for us living twice as long and longer on the pension than we used to..wonder how many would agree to this.
It might get to the point where this is the only option, unless we are expected to work until our late seventies.

that is fine going forward and if you increase payments when people start work its is a different matter, for anyone in power not to look after these women who have just missed out by the fact that they were born a year later than others isn't fair at all, and to tell them just as they are about to retire...oops you need to work on for another 4 years or whatever is disgusting