Read on Twitter
1
"As we have heard, since 2010 at least an extra 400,000 pensioners have been pushed into poverty, and a generation of women born in the 1950s were betrayed"
@SarahOwen_
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
#wednesdaythought
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"As we have heard, since 2010 at least an extra 400,000 pensioners have been pushed into poverty, and a generation of women born in the 1950s were betrayed"@SarahOwen_
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
#wednesdaythought
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
2" That left millions of women with no time to make alternative plans, with sometimes devastating personal consequences" @SarahOwen_
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
#wednesdaythought
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
" That left millions of women with no time to make alternative plans, with sometimes devastating personal consequences" @SarahOwen_ #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
#wednesdaythought
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
3"The people who have written to me have done the right thing in life: they paid into the system and worked hard and now they want their Government to be there when they need it" @SarahOwen_
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"The people who have written to me have done the right thing in life: they paid into the system and worked hard and now they want their Government to be there when they need it" @SarahOwen_ #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
4" Again, this is all about fairness. Those women worked, paid in and did the right thing, then had part of their pensions taken away" @SarahOwen_
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
" Again, this is all about fairness. Those women worked, paid in and did the right thing, then had part of their pensions taken away" @SarahOwen_ #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
5"Dignity as we grow older should not be an optional extra; it should be the very basic that the Government should provide" @SarahOwen_
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"Dignity as we grow older should not be an optional extra; it should be the very basic that the Government should provide" @SarahOwen_ #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
6."In one of the richest countries in the world, we should not have any older people living in poverty" @SarahOwen_
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"In one of the richest countries in the world, we should not have any older people living in poverty" @SarahOwen_ #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
7." However, there is evidence that that is reversing and life expectancy is starting to fall." (Jonathan Edwards)
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
" However, there is evidence that that is reversing and life expectancy is starting to fall." (Jonathan Edwards)#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
8."If that is sustained, the UK Government need to look at pensions policy and perhaps reverse the pension age increases that we have seen over recent decades" (Jonathan Edwards)
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"If that is sustained, the UK Government need to look at pensions policy and perhaps reverse the pension age increases that we have seen over recent decades" (Jonathan Edwards)#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
9"At a time when people have so little dispensable resource, they will be making choices about whether to invest in their longer-term future or to buy essentials, such as a meal for their family"
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 8.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"At a time when people have so little dispensable resource, they will be making choices about whether to invest in their longer-term future or to buy essentials, such as a meal for their family"#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 8.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
10"We therefore need to ensure that we address the poverty today as well as the poverty tomorrow"
(Jonathan Edwards)
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 8.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"We therefore need to ensure that we address the poverty today as well as the poverty tomorrow"(Jonathan Edwards)
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 8.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
11"The WASPI women are one example of a group that certainly made the right choices, yet was badly let down by the changes brought about by Government decisions" (Jonathan Edwards)
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"The WASPI women are one example of a group that certainly made the right choices, yet was badly let down by the changes brought about by Government decisions" (Jonathan Edwards)#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
12"Pensioners are feeling real financial impacts now, including the Equitable Life scandal, the situation experienced by the WASPI women and the issues with plumbers’ pensions" @wendychambLD
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"Pensioners are feeling real financial impacts now, including the Equitable Life scandal, the situation experienced by the WASPI women and the issues with plumbers’ pensions" @wendychambLD #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
13"these campaigns continue, and it is imperative that the Government actively engage with them" @wendychambLD
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"these campaigns continue, and it is imperative that the Government actively engage with them" @wendychambLD #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
14"Many of those campaigners are disheartened that the chance they felt they had to resolve those issues through the Pension Schemes Bill was missed and feel that they remain unheard" (WC...LD)
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"Many of those campaigners are disheartened that the chance they felt they had to resolve those issues through the Pension Schemes Bill was missed and feel that they remain unheard" (WC...LD)#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
15"Today, 1.9 million older people live in poverty, which really amplifies how pensions have gone wrong, and we therefore need to look at how we address those issues" @RachaelMaskell
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"Today, 1.9 million older people live in poverty, which really amplifies how pensions have gone wrong, and we therefore need to look at how we address those issues" @RachaelMaskell #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
16"I view this issue through the prism of women and their experiences of the inequality that is already built into their working life by the pay gap" @RachaelMaskell
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"I view this issue through the prism of women and their experiences of the inequality that is already built into their working life by the pay gap" @RachaelMaskell #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
17"They are more likely to be in part-time employment and more likely to be carers, and there is also the serious issue of underemployment" @RachaelMaskell
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"They are more likely to be in part-time employment and more likely to be carers, and there is also the serious issue of underemployment" @RachaelMaskell #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
18"In fact, since the start of the pandemic, 70% of people who have lost their jobs are women. We therefore need to understand why so many women are in pensioner poverty" @RachaelMaskell
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"In fact, since the start of the pandemic, 70% of people who have lost their jobs are women. We therefore need to understand why so many women are in pensioner poverty" @RachaelMaskell #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
19"We therefore need to ensure that we address the poverty today as well as the poverty tomorrow" @RachaelMaskell
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
"We therefore need to ensure that we address the poverty today as well as the poverty tomorrow" @RachaelMaskell #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
20" The WASPI women are one example of a group that certainly made the right choices, yet was badly let down by the changes brought about by Government decisions" @RachaelMaskell
#BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
" The WASPI women are one example of a group that certainly made the right choices, yet was badly let down by the changes brought about by Government decisions" @RachaelMaskell #BackTo60
#FullRestitution
#50sWomen
Hansard 08.12.2020
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2020-12-08/debates/BFF0C98B-1227-430B-8B19-5E7B185D2FDB/FutureOfPensionsPolicy#contribution-0BE82BCD-A172-4A36-B07B-12661677E82A
