YOU HAVE YOUR SAY

EVERY week, Money Mail receives hundreds of your letters and emails about our stories. Here are some from our investigation into the costly battle waged over the women’s state pension age: THE state pension age was hiked in a sloppy way. I never received any notification — and I worked for the Department for Work and Pensions. I had no time to change my plans.

E. H., Nottingham.

IF IT would cost the Government £200 billion to pay back the women, that was never going to pass. The fairest thing to have done would have been to hike the pension age in increments, so that women had to wait only a few more months, not years.

I. R., Southampton.

I AM a 62-year-old woman and I would have been in favour of equalising the state pension age at around 63. As things stand, I’ve had to start drawing down the personal pension I’ve paid into since my late 20s.

T. C., Shropshire.

EQUALITY works both ways. If the women wanted their pension age to stay at 60, a man should be able to claim at the same age. I can’t imagine how expensive it would be to backdate that.

J. F., by email.

I HAVE been following both the Backto60 and WASPI campaigns with great interest. I have my doubts about Backto60 and personally believe WASPI is more likely to be successful.

P. M., Bedfordshire.

THESE women were always going to lose this battle. They were never going to receive all the money they would have been paid. The rise in the state pension age was inevitable.

S. S., Southend.

I AM a 60-year-old man who began working at 16. I was always under the impression that I would retire at 65, but I will now be unable to claim my state pension until I am 66.

B. Y., Southampton.

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