A STATE pension “hardly worth anything” will see millions of women end their lives in penury, campaigners warned yesterday at the National Pensioners Convention conference in Blackpool.

Janet Shapiro told delegates that the situation was especially critical for women who had missed out on occupational pensions due to lives as mothers or homemakers.

The Con-Dem coalition had made great claims of lowering income tax but nearly half of Britain’s pensioners did not pay any income tax at all, she said.