Pensions are in a state

■ Yesterday, women born in the 50s and their supporters travelled to London from all over the UK to protest about the loss of up to six years’ worth of state pension, for many a sum of over £40,000.

We received little or no notice that the income we had to rely on at 60 would not be there. Some 3.8 million women are affected. It would have been unimaginable that such a large slice of the population could be cheated out of the state pensions they had paid into all their working lives – if it weren’t true!

This is a ticking timebomb ignored by successive governments and it can be sidestepped no longer. It’s time for Theresa May, a 1950s’ woman herself, and her Government to do the decent thing and pay up. Pamela Judge, Newcastle Emlyn, Dyfed