From: "Andy Pandy" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Question on qualifying years for UK state pension
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:24:45 -0000


"David Floyd"  wrote in message
news:N1frrTARCIyFFw8Q@127.0.0.1...
> I hope some experts can help me here.
>
> Currently a man needs 44 qualifying years and a woman needs 39
> qualifying years in order to get a full state pension.  I know that this
> changes for women born after 5th April 1950 and that their qualifying
> years will reach 44 years by 2020.
>
> However, I'm sure that there was some proposal to reduce this qualifying
> period to 30 years.
>
> After hours of google searching and searching the Treasury web site and
> others, I cannot find a single mention of this.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/pensionsreform/

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Andy