State pension heartbreak: 1950s women left with 'nothing' as campaigner slams age increase

The leader of ’63 is the news 60’, which campaigns for women to receive their pension aged 63, explained thousands of 1950s women took early retirement, in some cases to look after their partners. But due to the age change, these women have been left with no money. The retirement age for women rose to 65 to bring it into line with men and will go up to 66 by 2020, and 67 by 2028.

Speaking to Express.co.uk, Ms Robinson said: “There are thousands of ladies out there who have retired say, at 58 to look after a husband of partner who might have been ill thinking that they were going to get their pension at 60.

“They didn’t know and they didn’t get it.

“They’re then left with nowhere to go, no money.

“They’re so many women now in this day and age is ridiculous, there are so many wives living off their husbands because they don’t have their own money.”

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Ms Robinson noted 1950s women were seen as “housewives” and claimed some women won’t get the flat rate pension of £168.60 a week.

She explained only eight percent of women are entitled to the amount while many will go without.

Ms Robinson told Express.co.uk: “When we started work we didn’t have the benefits of equal pay or equal positions.

“We were considered to be housewives.

“Very few of us went to university, some did but that wasn’t what was expected of you in the post-war era.

“Most of us started work around 15/16 and now we’ve worked for 50 or more years and paid National Insurance all that time and we get nothing more for those extra 15 years on top of 35, that is the magic number now.

“In fact, most women will not get their £168.60 which is the flat rate supposedly pension because a lot of them were contracted out.

“If you were contracted out it meant you paid a slightly lower National Insurance stamp in order to put into a work pension.

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