A GROUP of women including a number from Farnham will be holding a demonstration at Westminster on Wednesday, June 29, to address the injustice of state pension age changes.

The group which is also known as WASPI, Women Against State Pension Inequality, was started up less than a year ago by ordinary women who thought they were due to retire at 60, but have now found out that they will have to wait a further six years in some cases.

Thousands of women are struggling due to this increase because they were not given adequate notice of the change. Some women have never been notified and have been shocked to find out that they will have to wait longer.

Farnham member Yvonne Robinson said: “Women are having to sell their houses and are struggling to find work. Women are having to go on degrading training courses to get some sort of benefit and they are living on the bread line. Some are having to rely on their husbands to provide for them like in the olden days.

“The Government and some of our local MPs are not bothered. They are not bothered that these women have brought up children in the late 70s and 80s when there was no help with child care.

“I am a 1950s woman, I had my children in the early 80s and I am proud to say I stayed at home for the first few years to look after them. I was expecting my pension at 60. I then found out by chance this had been changed to around 63. I was a bit cross about this and then two years ago I had a letter saying I now had to wait till I was 66. Angry wasn’t the word.”

For more information check out their Facebook page by typing in ‘WASPI - Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign’