Today campaigners at the High Court lost a legal battle against the government’s handling of the rise in the women’s state pension age.

The application to the court raised matters arising from the government policy of equalisation of the pension ages and its impact on women born in the 1950s, including the taper mechanism used to raise the State Pension Age, in combination with a failure to properly inform women of the changes

The Labour Party have already made commitments to support the women affected, including by extending Pension Credit to thousands of the most vulnerable women. The next Labour Government will consult further with the 1950s women affected as to what future support can put in place to help ensure that all these women have security and dignity in older age.