Tories will betray pensioners once again': Sturgeon warns treatment of elderly is a 'national scandal'
Tories will betray pensioners once again': Sturgeon warns treatment of elderly is a 'national scandal'
- Plans to increase the state pension age for women from 60 to 65 between 2010 and 2020 were initially set out in 1995. But the coalition government decided to speed up the process in 2011, resulting in the state pension age for women due to increase to 65 in November 2018 and to 66 by October 2020. Ms Sturgeon said: "The treatment of pensioners by this Tory government has been nothing short of a national scandal.
- Plans to increase the state pension age for women from 60 to 65 between 2010 and 2020 were initially set out in 1995. But the coalition government decided to speed up the process in 2011, resulting in the state pension age for women due to increase to 65 in November 2018 and to 66 by October 2020. Ms Sturgeon said: "The treatment of pensioners by this Tory government has been nothing short of a national scandal.