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Reverse unfair changes to New State Pension negatively impacting women

Submitted on Friday 5th April 2019

Rejected on Friday 3rd May 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Reverse unfair changes to New State Pension negatively impacting women

Petition Details

Qualifying years for new state pension increased from 30 to 35 In 2016 under New State Pension act
With some transitional protection, rules for marriage, divorce and bereavement ended and women can no longer make up years by utilising their husbands NIC contribution record.

Additional Information

At short notice women do not have enough years for Full new state pension.
For 1950’s born women already hit by up to 6 years increase in state pension age, they have no time to make up the extra years needed and may lose out on New state Pension altogether.
Widows, divorcees and married women adversely affected.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/876fc2de-7a02-11e4-8958-00144feabdc0
https://paullewismoney.blogspot.com/2015/11/women-will-get-less-than-men-from-new.html?m=1


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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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