CH-2024-000162 - [2025] EWHC 2237 (Ch)

The title to s.126 of the Act was changed to “Equalisation of pensionable age and of entitlement to certain benefits and increase in pensionable age” (emphasis added);

S.126(a) now described the purpose of Part I of Schedule 4 as “to equalise pensionable age for men and women progressively over a period of ten years beginning with 6th April 2010 and to increase the pensionable age for men and women progressively over a period of 22 years beginning with 6th April 2024” (emphasis added);

The title to Schedule 4 was amended to “Equalisation of and increase in pensionable age for men and women” (emphasis added);

The title to Part I (“Pensionable ages for men and women - Rules for determining pensionable age”) was unchanged;

The new rules in paragraph 1 now provided that:-

“(1)

A man born before 6th April 1959 attains pensionable age when he attains the age of 65 years.

(2)

A woman born before 6th April 1950 attains pensionable age when she attains the age of 60.

(3)

A woman born on any day in a period mentioned in column 1 of table 1 attains pensionable age at the commencement of the day shown against that period in column 2.

(4)

A woman born after 5th April 1955 but before 6th April 1959 attains pensionable age when she attains the age of 65.”

The table showing the gradual equalisation of pension age for those women born between 1950 and 1955 was unchanged. However, additional provisions (including three additional tables) were added for all persons (male and female) born after 6 April 1959 with the effect of a gradual increase of state pension age from 65 to 68 for those born between 1959 and 1978.