High court due to rule on women's pension age case

Raising pensionable age from 60 to 66 discriminated on grounds of sex, say claimantsWomen affected by changes to the state pension age are due to hear the outcome of their high court fight against the government.Nearly 4 million women born in the 1950s have been affected by the changes, which have raised the state pension age from 60 to as high as 66. It has been increased by successive governments in an attempt to ensure “pension age equalisation”, so that women’s state pensio