Women Against State Pension Inequality, known as WASPI women, held up banners and shouted from the public gallery as the Budget statement concluded. Around 3.9 million women have been forced to wait up to an extra six years to get their pension. (Image: AFP/Getty Images)(Image: handout)Women born in the 1950s have been hit by the government’s decision to increase the female state pension age from 60 to 66. Campaigners warn of women left destitute because of the changes with women forced to use food banks, living in their cars and having to rely on friends and family for help. (Image: Getty Images)It came as Chancellor Philip Hammond unveiled the final Budget before the UK leaves the EU in March 2019.

Source: Daily Mirror October 29, 2018 17:03 UTC