Madam,

I was pleased to see reported in the Cambrian News, and supported in your editorial, that Ben Lake MP is backing women like myself (born in 1954) in our bid to gain redress over having our pension age moved back six years with little or no notice.

I, for one, never received any notice about this change, and after paying contributions for 40 years, raising two children and caring for two elderly parents, it would be an understatement to say I feel used and abused by this government.

The so called ‘equalising’ of the pension ages is an insult to women of our generation in particular, who for societal reasons and due to discriminatory practices were never on an equal footing with men of the same generation until it suited the government to exploit us further.

In my first job I was paid half that of my male counterpart and it wasn’t until 1998 that it became law for a divorced woman to receive a share of her husband’s pension.

I am so angry and feel that the government merely views us as middle-aged pushovers, irrelevant, a handy and powerless source to claw back money spent on bailing out the banks.

It rubs salt into our wounds to see this government favouring tax breaks for the wealthy, and brokering a £1 billion bribe to the DUP in a bid to cling onto power, when just a small part of that would lift women my age out of struggle and poverty by merely honouring their debt to us.

I would urge all women affected by this issue to support WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign).

Yours etc,

Jane Worrall, Tymawr, Talsarn, Lampeter.

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