New State Pension

[malana3]

The new State Pension will be available for those men born on or after 6th April 1951. My son-in-law was born on the 6th February 1951, ie 2 months prior to the qualifying date. Is there any action he can now take in order to qualify for the new state pension? I have looked at the Government web page but could not find an answer to this question.

[EDDIE51]

They are making it equal by gradually increasing the age women retire to the same age as men. My wife is 60 next week, for years she was told she would get her pension at 60. Now she has reached 60 the age has been raised to 65.

[Retrochic]

Actually fiction I did not know that, as I am not eligible for a State Pension in the UK and in Canada the Old Age Security pension is the same for men and women,65 at the moment.

[Dogsbody2]

Eddie, it is actually years ago that the announcement was made to increase the women's retirement age to 65. Certainly over 20.
It came as an outcome of a male who took the UK government to the EU court arguing equality should mean he got his pension at 60. He won, but he was a prat to believe it would be affordable, thus the UK government announced the progressive increase in female retirement age to 65, to fix the parity issue.
More recently another change fiddled around with the interim changeover period such that more women had to wait closer to 65 to get the pension.
A shameful episode to remind us all not to rely on any long term government promise, and look after number one.

[Peter Pedant]

// A shameful episode to remind us all not to rely on any long term government promise, and look after number one.//

a throw back to 1945 when the civil servants who had promised the earth to win the war put their backs into lying reneging and reinterpreting it all - not for themselves of course but for others