Tens of thousands of housewives to receive letters warning they have no state pension

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Older women who took on traditional roles in the home may find they are not entitled to a state pension Credit: Alamy

Tens of thousands of housewives are about to receive letters from the Government warning that they will not qualify for the new state pension because they have not worked for long enough.

The Department for Work and Pensions is sending more than 100,000 people within nine years of state pension age the letters, which will inform them that they will not receive a single penny under the new system.

Older women who took on traditional roles in the home, or took extended periods of time off work to raise children, are most likely to lose out as a result of the new rules.


The new state pension is leaving some people worse off than under the old system Credit: Kirsty O'Connor

Men born after 6 April 1951 and women born after 6 April 1953, who are eligible to receive the new state pension, must have worked full time for a minimum of 10 years to qualify for it.

Confusingly this was not the case for people retiring between 2010 and April 2016, who were able to receive an income based on just one year's work.

The Government agreed to send out the letters over concerns raised by the Work and Pensions Select Committee that large numbers of Britons reaching retirement age may not realise that they would not be able to rely on receiving a state pension in old age.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...-warning-they/

[Meat-Head]

so Inglish woman been working 9 years, gets nothing, polish, comes over, works 1 year and kerching kerching
#brexit

[GastonJ]

so Inglish woman been working 9 years, gets nothing, polish, comes over, works 1 year and kerching kerching
#brexit

You have the name and bank details of those people to prove this?

The pensions debacle is caused by the UK government. It's a cking stupid situation that they created.

https://www.facebook.com/WASPI-Women-Against-State-Pension-Inequality-Campaign-877054125688402/

The above campaign has been going for a long time. The government have refused to do anything about the problem they caused.

[ifred]

This is probably the real reason C moron resigned the thought of angry grandmas with handbag heading his way ...He just need an excuse to run and hide!