Webb: Labour failed to propose fix for women's SPA

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The Labour opposition should have come up with a solution to help women disproportionately hit by the rise in the state pension age to 66 by 2020, pensions minister Steve Webb says.

The Pensions Bill, as it stands, will mean about 500,000 women in their fifties must wait up to an extra two years for their state pensions. In the second reading of the Bill last month, work an...

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