A MARCH in protest against woman's state pension increase (WASPI) will take place later this month.
Leafleting will occur in Ayr and Prestwick from 11am until 1pm on February 24 with the march taking place in Kilmarnock the following day.
WASPI members of South Ayrshire asked the council in December last year to write a letter to the Scottish Government to prevent the station pension age from increasing. This suggestion was 'sneered' at an declined.
WASPI are campaigning for women born in the 1950s to be given money equivalent to the amount they would have received if they’d have qualified for their state pension at the age of 60.
They argue that women born in the 1950s should get the payment in recognition of the fact they were not given enough warning and therefore time to prepare for changes to their state pension age.
MSP Jeanne Freeman said: "These women have been badly let down.
“I have no problem with equalising the pension age between men and women but the Tory Government’s failure to rectify this is not about pension-age equalisation or fairness."
The date of next meeting will be Saturday, February from 10am – noon.
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