The change to women being paid the state pension at 65 instead of 60 was originally laid out in the 1995 Pensions Act. <\/p>\n
It was originally due to be phased in over 10 years from 2010 for women born between 1950 and 1955. <\/p>\n
But the 2011 Pensions Act then accelerated the process and left women like Angela waiting a further five years to receive payments. <\/p>\n
Angela initially approached her local MP Natascha Engel, who put her in touch with other women in the same position.<\/p>\n
She then arranged a meeting for those affected in the Portland Hotel in Chesterfield, which became the North East Derbyshire branch of Waspi, and eventually travelled to London to lobby MPs on the issue. <\/p>\n
Angela, who is now the national chair of Waspi, said the government of the time failed to communicate the changes laid out in the 2011 act.<\/p>\n
“Apparently there were leaflets about it,” she said. “But they were mainly in Benefits Offices and of course having never been unemployed I didn’t frequent Benefits Offices.”<\/p>\n