Pensions minister Steve Webb has promised that the goverment will create a transitional arrangement for women hit hardest by the rise in the state pension age.
Plans to raise the SPA to 66 by 2020 contained in the Pensions Bill have angered women, 500,000 of whom will face up to an extra two years before they can claim their pensions. In June, Webb sai...
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