Women protest at No 10 over proposed pension reforms

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Women protest at No 10 over proposed pension reforms

Six women have delivered an oversized postcard to 10 Downing Street asking the prime minister not to increase women's pension age beyond 65 until 2020.

The stunt forms part of Age UK's continuing campaign against proposed reforms, as the Pensions Bill prepares for its final reading before parliament.

Age UK claims that the extra two years before the state pension can be drawn, added to the less than seven years notice the changes will give those women affected, will risk "plunging hundreds of thousands of women into poverty".

Charity director Michell Mitchell said: "We are simply asking them to stick to their original pledge not to raise the state pension age before 2020 for women."

However, speaking to the BBC on Sunday, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith insisted that the existing reforms, which originally included proposals to raise the retirement threshold to 67 by 2036, were unreasonable given extended life expectancy rates.

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