Gender gap means retired women ‘have four months a year with no pension’

The gender pension gap is narrowing but will take until at least 2061 to close. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Retired women in the UK in effect go four months of the year without a pension when their income is compared with that of men, union leaders have warned.

The TUC said the income gap between men and women in retirement was 36.5%, equivalent to a shortfall of £7,600 a year on average.