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<p>No such estimate has been made of the effect of changes to the state pension age
for women born in the 1950s on revenue accruing to the Exchequer.</p><p> </p><p>The
Government decided over 25 years ago that it was going to make the State Pension age
the same for men and women.</p><p> </p><p>Raising State Pension age in line with life
expectancy changes has been the policy of successive administrations over many years</p><p>DWP
estimate that the total additional cost if we had not implemented any increases in
State Pension age would be in the region of £215bn for the period 2010/11 to 2025/26,
in 2018/19 prices. This figure takes into account State Pension, other pensioner benefits,
and savings made on .working age benefits.</p>
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