Campaigners are demanding Government action to correct a ‘manifest unfairness’ in the draft Pensions Bill that will result in 80,000 women being denied a right to the proposed single-tier State pension from April 2017. The women are losing out because of a double-whammy of policy changes, first highlighted in Financial Mail a month ago, that cruelly pushes them out of reach of the new £144-a-week pension. The calls for the Government to act will be made to the Work and Pensions Committee this Wednesday as it begins its detailed scrutiny of the Government’s proposed State pension reforms ahead of a Bill being presented before Parliament later this year.....Read more here