We’re standing up for pensions
Labour parliamentary candidates are taking part in a national day of action to support women who’ve been hit by changes to the state pension.
The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign is demanding fair transitional state pension arrangements from all women born in the 1950s affected by changes in the state pension.
Paisley and Renfrewshire South candidate Alison Dowling will attend the event in Houstoun Square, Johnstone with her colleague for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, Alison Taylor.
They will sign WASPI pledge boards, distribute WASPI literature and sign a WASPI petition.
Alison Dowling said:“The recent Labour-led Renfrewshire Council administration consistently supported the aims of the WASPI campaign and recognised that many women are suffering huge financial difficulties because of the way the changes have been implemented.
“A large number of WASPI women only received a letter advising them of increases to their State Pension age when they were 59, within one year of their expected State Pension age of 60, and many others received only a few years notice.
“As a result, WASPI women have had no time to put in place alternative financial arrangements to see them through to the new state retirement age.
“This is an unfair and unacceptable state of affairs.
“If Alison Taylor and myself are elected as MPs on June 8, we fully intend to continue to fight for the wrongs that have been done to the WASPI women to be put right.”
The WASPI campaign wants women to receive a bridging pension to provide an income until state pension age and compensation for losses for those who have already reached their state pension age.
The event runs from 12.30pm till 1.30pm.