Forty-five years of paying pension contributions – it now seems they were paid under false pretences.

‘Trudy from Somerset’ looks at the issues behind the pension campaign women born in the 1950s are currently fighting.

There are several aspects to the 1950s women’s pensions issue and I have broken them down here:

In the mid-1960s – early 1970s when women born in the 1950s began work and contributing to Graduated Pension and National Insurance the pension age was 60 for women and 65 for men.