2011 June 07

Barbara is 56.  From the age of 15, she has worked every day of her life, apart from a few years when she stayed at home to care for her disabled husband until his death in 2003.  Since 1995, she thought that she would retire in 2018, when she will be 64. She based all her plans for the future on this.  But the Government have moved the goalposts, so that people like Barbara will have to wait two additional years to retire.