Backto60 Judicial Review

Last updated on January 23rd, 2022

Judicial Review on the Implementation of the Equalisation of Pension Ages for Women Born in the 50s

Oct 19 Update – the results of the judicial review are in.

We are aware that there is currently a judicial review taking place regarding the change in women’s retirement age from 60 to 65 and then to 66.

The women from the group ‘Backto60’ have brought this to court to try and reclaim the pension payments that would have been paid to them if they were able to retire at age 60 and not 65 or 66. They are not the same as the Waspi group of women who have a slightly different aim but are waiting on the results of the judicial review before they take further action.

Previously the government have said that back payments would not happen and that the increase in state pension ages was made in order to equalise payments for men and women.

The women claim that they were not given enough notice of the change in order to make arrangements for their retirement and that they are being penalised because, in the aim of making things equal, they claim this actually made things less equal for women who did not have rights to equal pay and equal benefits etc.

We will be keeping a close eye on the outcome of the judicial review but in any case it will be unlikely to affect the actual retirement ages/dates for women born in the 50s as that is not what is in question during the review.

Once we have found out the result of the review we will post any further information here.

If you were born in the 1950s and wish to find out what your state pension age is then you can follow our questionnaire here.

Update: 7th June 2019

The Judicial review lasted 2 days as planned – 5th and 6th June 2019. the result of a judicial review can be delivered orally immediately (which did not happen in this case) or it can be delivered in writing at a later date. We are not aware of when that date may be – whether t may take a lot of deliberation by the judge – or whether it will come within a few days.

The government have today published figures showing the cost of reversing women’s State Pension age back to 60 and men’s State Pension age back to 65 over the period 2010/11 to 2025/26. The total cost over that period amounts to £215.2 billion. To put this into perspective the NHS is funded on less than £2 billion a year (yes that shocked me too!).