Plans to speed up increases in the state pension age for women are facing mounting pressure from backbenchers. It is set to rise from 60 to 65 by 2018 - two years earlier than previously agreed - so the age for both sexes can then be increased to 66 by 2020.

It will mean about 330,000 women, in their late 50s, will have to work for up to two years longer than planned. The Pensions Bill has its second reading on Monday and ministers insist it will go ahead without any changes.

'Injustice'

Last year, Chancellor George Osborne announced plans to accelerate the rate at which women's pension age will rise to equal that of men, currently 65. The previous government had agreed to achieve equalisation by April 2020, but the coalition's plans will see it achieved by November 2018............Read more HERE on this story

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Spending Review: State pension age rise brought forward: he state pension age will now rise to 66 by 2020 for both men and women, the Chancellor, George Osborne, has said..........Read more HERE October 2010