Almost half of women born in the 1950s have struggled to pay bills in the last six months and a quarter have struggled to buy food after a Tory shake-up to the state pension age.
The shocking survey of more than 7,700 women reveals the “devastating impact” of changes to 1950-born women’s state pension age.
A third of women pensioners report experiencing debt in the last six months, with thousands of women saying that not knowing about the hike to the state pension age was the direct cause of their financial hardship.
