MANY of your readers will be aware of the injustice of the way that state pension changes have been imposed upon women currently aged in their early 60s by the government.

Basically the changes have been made at very short notice so that working women born in 1950 received their state pension at 60 yet if you were born just five years later you cannot receive your pension until you are 66 years old.

It’s right that men and women’s retirement ages are equalised but many women are being unfairly made to suffer at the hands of this government as a result of the botched implementation of these changes.

In Stroud alone it is estimated that over 6,000 older women have suffered as a result of this policy so it was great to see that Stroud District Council voted on a motion at a meeting to ask the chief executive to write to the Government to ask them to improve the transitional arrangements for the women affected.

It was such a shame that the only councillors who refused to support the motion were five Conservative men, Cllrs: Cooper, Davies, Haydn Jones, Pearson and Reeves.

Perhaps if your readers have got a view on this issue and they are represented by one of these councillors they might like to help to inform and educate them on this subject.

JEANNE BERRY
Elcombe