Karen Ogle and her husband are living on a narrowboat out of financial necessity after she had to wait six extra years for her pension
changes to her state pension age
Ms Ogle explained that her husband Mike carried on working until the age of 69 as she was caring for her father who moved in with them for two-and-a-half years. Following the death of her mother, Ms Ogle’s father stayed with her and her husband, before living with them for two-and-a-half-year when he became too weak to live on his own.“I claimed carer’s allowance while I was looking after my father in our home and I couldn’t work as I took him to all his medical appointments and for days out. Mike had to carry on working so we could pay our rent.
“All us Waspi women thought we would retire at 60 and men would retire at 65 and that is what I always believed,” she said. “I was never informed otherwise or told ‘you’d better start paying into a pension because it’s all going to change’.” Although living on a narrowboat can be pleasant, Karen Ogle says it is a physical and strenuous was of life and is worried about what will happen when she and her husband no longer have their health
“If I had got my state pension at 60, we would have more money in the pot and some savings behind us and be able to do more with the grandchildren. But things are just so difficult financially.”, it will be around £1,000, which would be wrong when the average loss per woman is probably something like £35,000.”
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