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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jacob Phillips

'I want the £45,000 stolen from me,' says woman hit by state pension age change

A woman has said the Government has “stolen” £45,000 from her after she only found out she would not be paid her state pension when she applied for a bus pass.

Carole Cooper, 68, is one of millions of women born in the 1950s who are furious about not being told in a timely way that they would be affected by the rising state pension age.

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