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The grim price of the rise in the state pension age for women
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We Paid In, You Pay Out
edited by Trudy Baddams
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WE PAID In, You Pay Out is a collection of personal testimonies from women born in the 1950s on how the unexpected rise in the state pension age is affecting their lives.
The sordid details should be well known by now. Women who were born in that decade were told they would retire at 60 but were informed, far too late in the day, that their retirement age was now 66.
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