A woman claims she has lost out on £53,000 because her state pension age was changed without proper notification. Ann Hughes worked until she was 63, and left her care worker job because she felt health problems were exacerbated by being forced to continue working beyond the age she expected to retire.
Ann, who started working at the age of 15, expected to retire at 60. She says she experienced numerous health problems after being forced to continue working following her discovery that her state pension age had been raised with ‘no warning whatsoever,’ Lancs Live reports.
More than 3.5 million women born in the 1950s had expected to retire at 60, only to get caught out by plans to bring the State Pension age into line with men, with many being completely unaware until the last minute that they would have to work on until age 65, and now age 66. Campaigners calculate the average women born in the 1950s lost up to £50,000 in State Pension as a result, and last summer, the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was guilty of “maladministration” for failing to give 1950s women proper notice of the change.
