This is Money website highlights the Chancellor’s budget announcement that the Net Pay Pensions injustice will be fixed but not till 2025. ( link to pdf )
Ros wrote a Comment article for Pensions Age calling for improvements to women’s pensions and tackle the gender pensions gap. ( link to pdf )
The National Scotland carries Ros’ warnings that ditching the triple lock this year will leave more UK pensioners in poverty. ( link to pdf )
Ros disagrees with the Intergenerational Foundation conclusions that uprating the State Pension this year by earnings is ‘unfair’. Many pensioners have no other income and using adjusted earnings would help those facing poverty.
Ros is quoted saying that many women pensioners rely on the UK state pension, which is the lowest in the developed world and the earnings uprating is really important for them. ( link to pdf )
Daily Telegraph reports about a woman whose state pension was reduced as a result of being widowed, even though her own state penson contributions had secured a higher sum.
Ros wrote an article for inews about the Government’s decision to withdraw Post Office card accounts, which could leave vulnerable pensioners without their pension and urges it to ensure it has learned lessons from its failure to properly communicated about women’s State Pensions. ( link to pdf )
Ros is quoted in the Guardian with tips for women to help close the gender pensions gap. ( link to pdf )
Ros is quoted in Pension Age following her Oral Question in the House of Lords and calling for urgent action to remedy the gender pensions gap. ( link to pdf )
Ros is quoted by ThisIsMoney calling on the Government to explain why women were wrongly paid too little state pensions for many years and urging quick action to ensure they receive the money they are owed before they die. ( link to pdf )