WILLOTT WELCOMES £1.1 BILLION STATE PENSION AGE CHANGE  

Jenny Willott, the Lib Dem MP for Cardiff Central and Co-Chair of the Party's Parliamentary Committee on Work and Pensions, has today welcomed the Government's announcement of changes to the planned increase in the State Pension Age for women. Jenny had previously criticised plans which would have seen hundreds of thousands of women asked to work up to two years longer in order to claim their State Pension, at short notice. She called on the Government to provide protection for the worst affected women. Thanks to this pressure, the Government has announced it will cap the maximum increase any women will see at 18 months. This is a £1.1 billion change that will see a quarter of a million women better off as well as another quarter of a million men who will see their planned increase reduce as well. Commenting Jenny said: "I welcome today's announcement that shows the Government has listened...