{"id":4050,"date":"2018-11-06T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/landmark-day-for-state-pension-equality\/"},"modified":"2018-11-06T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:31:10","slug":"landmark-day-for-state-pension-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/landmark-day-for-state-pension-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark day for State Pension equality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tuesday women in the UK will begin to qualify for their State Pensions at the same age as men – currently 65.<\/p>\n

The move to equalise male and female pension ages began 25 years ago, under John Major’s government, and has been gradually phased in.<\/p>\n

Women who are 65 on 6 November will therefore be the first to wait for as long as men.<\/p>\n

But critics say that women are still a long way from pension equality, as the amount they typically receive is lower.<\/p>\n

For more than sixty years – up until 2010 – women received their pensions at the age of 60. But that has been rising ever since.<\/p>\n