WASPI cancer survivor risks losing her house after feeling forced out of her planned retirement
A cancer survivor who was hit by the change in the state pension age says she must keep working or face losing her beloved bungalow.
For more than three decades, Paula worked in roles as an office manager and a personal assistant within the same company. In 2006, she received the devastating cancer diagnosis. "They just said it was a very, very rare thing, just one of those things," Paula explained. "I had surgery, it was bad. I was ill, I was in bed for year being fed by tube. It was about two-and-a-half years before I could eat properly.
She would eventually leave the company feeling she had been treated badly and moved into retail believing it wouldn't be long until she could stop working but was stunned to learn of the changed retirement age. "If I want a week's holiday, I have to save up and save up to afford it. With the gas bills now, oh my. But if I had my pension, there wouldn't be a problem. I did have a house but I couldn't afford the mortgage so I sold it and now I have a bungalow. It's small but it's nice but I should have my pension and I shouldn't have to worry about money."
A change to the national pension age for women, legislated for in 1995, wasn't communicated to most of those affected until 2012, leading the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to find the Department of Work and Pensiond guilty of maladministration. It said that "the opportunity that additional notice would have given them to adjust their retirement plans was lost."
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