Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) is a group campaigning to get a fairer deal for women born in the 1950s who have borne the brunt of recent changes to the state pension age. There are estimated to be 2.6 million women impacted by these changes nationally, some 44,000 of whom live in Derbyshire. Angela Madden is one of them… and tells Barrie Farnsworth all about the campaign.
I WAS BORN IN 1954 and started working in 1970. Although we have equality now, it was different back then. Married in 1972, I was given the option to pay a ‘married women’s’ stamp, and I took my mother’s advice and paid full National Insurance contributions. I expected to retire in June 2014, on or around my 60th birthday,” Angela explains…