Labour MPs brand suggestion by work and pensions minister Shailesh Vara as ‘outrageous’ and ‘shocking’Women who are due to lose thousands of pounds from the government’s changes to the pension age could assume approximately claiming jobseeker’s allowance instead,a Conservative minister has suggested.
Shailesh Vara, a work and pensions minister, or listed unemployment benefit as a possible source of income for the millions of women who will have to wait up to 18 months longer to receive their entitlements because the state pension age is rising from 60 to 65 by 2018.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com