STRETFORD and Urmston MP Kate Green has continued her fight for women who will be hit by the Government accelerating the rise in the women’s State Pension Age (SPA).

Plans to bring the retirement age for women into line with men by 2020 were fast-tracked by the government in 2011.

Some women who were born in the 1950s claim this has meant they have not been given enough notice of changes and have been unable to plan for their new circumstances, leaving them in financial difficulty. Ms Green has been contacted by many affected women across Trafford who are worried about what the changes mean for them.

Ms Green is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on State Pension Inequality for Women which supports women hit by the changes. The group works closely with the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign which raises awareness and looks for opportunities to press the Government to introduce transitional arrangements for pensions.

She is joining WASPI campaigners and other MPs to present a public petition to the House of Commons on October 11, which callls on the Government make transitional arrangements to ease the circumstances of all those women affected.

Ms Green is calling on women in her constituency who have been affected, and their friends, family and neighbours to sign the petition.

Ms Green said “It’s simply not good enough that many women who’ve worked hard all their lives, will suffer financially because of the Government’s thoughtless changes to the state pension age.

“That’s why I’m urging as many of my constituents as possible to sign the WASPI petition calling on the government to implement these changes more fairly.

“If you would like a copy of the petition to sign then please e-mail me on kate.green.mp@parliament.uk or call my office on 0161 749 9120. You can drop in to Hullaballoons in Urmston to sign the petition too.”