The union organisation said that compared to men, retired women effectively stop receiving a pension<\/a> income from today.<\/p>\n The income gap between men and women in retirement is now 36.5%, according to research from the Prospect union.<\/p>\n The government has revived the Pension Commission to examine the causes of the gap, bringing together trade unions, employers, and independent experts.<\/p>\n TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “Everyone deserves dignity and security in retirement, but too many retired women have been left without enough to get by.<\/p>\n “We must make sure that these inequalities are addressed for future generations.<\/p>\n Mr Nowak said reviving the commission is “a vital step forward”.<\/p>\n He added: “We now have a chance to make sure everyone, including women, receive the decent retirement income that all workers need.”<\/p>\n 0:54<\/p>\n Govt to review state pension age<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: A government spokesperson said: “We’re determined to close the gender pensions gap, and the new state pension has already reduced historic inequalities faced by women and low earners.<\/p>\n “Alongside this, the Pensions Commission will tackle barriers to close the gender pensions gap in private pensions to ensure women have the dignity and security they deserve in retirement.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired women effectively go more than four months every year without getting a pension when their income is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,4174,4175,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-82147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skynews-liz-kendall-pension_6969787.jpg\")
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