Older women can't have their pension cake and eat it

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Older women on a bench
Older women on a bench

The introduction of the flat-rate state pension may have been heralded as a government triumph but it's upsetting a lot of women up and down the country.

The £144-a-week state pension was due to come in to force in 2017 but it has been brought forward a year to 2016 to try and placate a swathe of women approaching their 60th birthday who protested because they've had to endure two changes to their state pension age and would still have missed out on the increased state pension if it was brought in in 2017.

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