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https://fullfact.org/economy/increasing-state-pension-age/
The picture is more nuanced than you portray and goes back to 1995.
Fundamentally (i) I do not think that it is reasonable to expect pension benefits from 60 any more given health outcomes and (ii) state benefits are not and have never been a hypothecated guarantee that cannot be altered.
Austerity is a broader issue that the waspi women do not have a special claim for redress on over everyone else who suffered from spending cuts.
I suppose that’s how I ‘dress it up’
Equalised. And she had something like 15 years’ notice to make alternative arrangements.