'I lost out on £48,000... I will never, ever give up fighting for it'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukWhile the finishing touches were put to the Budget, there was anger on the street. Like millions of 1950s-born women, Teresa Stoddart says she has lost out on something that was 'a right'.
She is one of the women who had her retirement plans thrown into disarray due to an increase in state pension age. An estimated 3.6 million women expected to get their state pension at 60 but had to wait another five or six years, following changes announced in 1995 and 2012.
Many say they were not properly warned, the Liverpool Echo reports. For more than a decade, the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaigners have fought for change. READ MORE: Horrific video shows moment boy, 14, is mauled by vicious dog in Bolton park as police hunt owners Teresa Stoddart can barely disguise her fury when she describes what she and other women of her generation have been through these past few years.
The nan-of-seven, 70, said: "I was due to get my pension in 2014 and I made plans for that. "Then I got a letter from the Department for Work and Pensions in 2012 to say that I wasn't going to get my state pension in 2014 because they were changing the age.
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