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<p>This matter has been comprehensively debated on many occasions in Parliament. The
Government will not be making changes to its policy on State Pension age for women
born in the 1950s.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already introduced transitional
arrangements, costing £1.1 billion. This concession reduced the proposed increase
in State Pension age for over 450,000 men and women, and means that no woman will
see her pension age change by more than 18 months, relative to the original 1995 Act
timetable.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will not be making any further concessions
in addition to those arrangements already made for women affected by the acceleration
of increases in State Pension age.</p>
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