State pension: when can i draw my state pension? How to check age

State pension: when can i draw my state pension? How to check age

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However, campaign groups such as Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) and Backto60 have argued the way changes were brought in have left many women in difficult financial


situations. WASPI state on their website: “The 1995 Conservative Government’s State Pension Act included plans to increase women’s state pension age from 60 to 65 so that it was the same as


men’s. “WASPI agrees with equalisation but does not agree with the unfair way the changes were implemented. “Because of the way the increases were brought in, women born in the 1950s (on or


after April 6, 1950 to April 5, 1960) 3.8 million women have been hit particularly hard.