North Ayrshire and Arran MP Patricia Gibson has delivered a petition on behalf of Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) constituents calling on the UK Government to take immediate action to help the millions of women whose retirement plans have been impacted by rapid increases to the state pension age.
MP Patricia Gibson is surrounded by the 2,534 signature petition.
The 1995 Pensions Act brought the state pension age for women in line with men over two decades but the 2011 Pensions Act rapidly accelerated the original timetable and the 2.6 million women affected by the changes – born in the 1950s – were not informed. Of these, 4,800 live in the North Ayrshire and Arran constituency.