In 1990, the European Court of Justice ruled that it was unlawful for the State to have different retirment ages for men and women. At that time men were able to draw their state pension at age 65 whereas women were able to draw it age 60. There was an enourmous amount of publicity at the time about this case as it was a landmark judgement. The government legislated in 1995 to equalise the pension ages over a period of time. This meant that the age that women could draw their state pension increased over time. Once again there was a huge amount of publicity about this.
There was a bit of a “cliff edge” in the increase as it coincided with the male pension age increasing to 66, but this also received considerable publicity. A group of women now complain that they should be compensated because the government failed to send letters telling them of the change in a timely manner (indeed for a number of years). Well, I am sorry but their supposed ignorance seems to me to be questionable. The change was in all the papers for months at time in different years, articles appeared in publications from financial papers to women’s magazines. Are we to believe that these women are so dumb as to be unaware of what was happening?
Perhaps there should be a campaign to compensate men who had to work for 5 years longer than women!