Decision details

Councillor Alistair Morwood presented the following Motion submitted in accordance with Procedure Rule 10.

MAKE FAIR TRANSITIONAL STATE PENSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR 1950'S WOMEN

“The Council calls upon the Government to make fair transitional state pension arrangements for all women born on or after 6th April 1951, who have unfairly borne the burden of the increase to the State Pension Age (SPA) with lack of appropriate notification.

The Council calls upon the Government to reconsider current transitional arrangements for women born on or after 6th April 1951, so that women do not live in hardship due to pension changes they were not told about until it was too late to make alternative arrangements.”

Councillor Alistair Morwood spoke in support of the motion which he said was not about pension age but about the rise in state pension age for women born after on or after 6 April 1951 which had been imposed too quickly, without the opportunity to plan for it financially. It impacted on 6,100 women in Chorley alone and he asked that if the motion was supported by Members, that the Town Hall clock be illuminated in purple, the campaign colour.

Councillor June Molyneaux seconded the motion and spoke in support of it.

RESOLVED - on being put to the vote, there was unanimous support for the motion, including the Town Hall clock being illuminated in the national campaign colour of purple.