To not have realised that my pension age has gone up?

[IIdentifyAsInnocent]

I'm 45, 46 this year. Checked online 2 years ago and my state pension age was 67, which I thought was bad enough, for some reason checked again today and it's gone up to 68!!

I knew that the govt were thinking of doing this but I have no recollection of being told it had actually happened. This affects my work pension which I now can't take until 68 too as it aligns to state pension age.

Annoyingly, my brother who is 2 years older can still retire at 67!
Have I missed some huge public announcement?

Yeah it probably does.

l’m 60. In my circle everyone is absolutely desperate to leave though. Ill health, ill parents, grandchildren. I know no one working for the joy of working. They’re all working to live rather than living to work.

I think those carrying the banners were doing so in the hope that any decision on compensation would either be based on the actual amount of pension they lost out on during those years, or the supposed financial losses they suffered as a result of maladministration. I’m a WASPI and even I think that’s deluded, and those who have been affected by the age rises implemented since are not entitled to make any such claims because they have received adequate notice of the changes. in the case of the WASPIs there was age tapering and there was a degree of engagement with the public, but it wasn’t enough and DWP - who are generally a law unto themselves anyway and don’t seem to be capable of communicating properly unless they are demanding money - clearly failed in the recommendation to officially write to those affected. I think that’s what warrants the compensation and I think the recommendations on that are fair.