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<p>Successive governments of different political persuasions have taken the same approach
to increased life expectancy and equality between 1995–2019. The Government has no
plans to revisit the policy on women’s State Pension age as brought forward by the
1995 pensions Act or the 2011 Pensions Act, and does not intend to make further concessions.
The changes in the 2011 Act occurred following a public Call for Evidence and extensive
debates in Parliament. A concession limiting the increase in State Pension age under
the 2011 Act in any individual case to 18 months, relative to the 1995 Act timetable,
has already been made during the passage Act (at the cost of £1.1 billion).</p><p>
</p><p>In the years after the 1995 legislation (1995 to 2011) this equalisation was
frequently reported in the media and debated at length in parliament. People were
notified with leaflets, an extensive advertising campaign was carried out, and later
individual letters were posted out.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence submitted to the House
of Commons Work and Pensions Committee ‘Communication of state pension age changes’
in 2016 noted that there were more than 600 mentions of State Pension age equalisation
in the national broadsheet and tabloid press between 1993 and 2006, an average of
just under one per week between 1993 and 2006. There were 54 mentions in the press
in 1995, the year in which equalisation was legislated for. This was a significant
event to change the age at which women received their State Pension that had existed
since 1940. This was news worthy, particularly to those that it affected. Further
media coverage occurred around the Pension Acts 2007, 2011 and 2014.</p>
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