ST article, Blair's pension offer to mothers

Anybody know more about this?

The article seems fairly garbled. At one point it talks about offering help to "stay-at-home mothers who miss out on state pension rights if they do not work for at least 10 years in full time employment". In another place it says "women would be entitled to a full state pension regardless of how many years they had worked".

Is this aimed at *parents* who stay at home to look after the kids, or just women who stay at home to look after the kids, or women who don't work whether they have kids or not?

Also, even if you don't start work until your early twenties, you still have

40-odd years until you reach 65. Spending 30+ years unable to work full time because you are looking after your children seems unusual.
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anon
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What if you marry more than once and have more children after a gap?

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c&l

I didn't say it was impossible, just unusual. You would need to have kids separated by about 16 years, AND decide to stay off work until every last one of them was an adult. Nothing wrong with doing that, but not many people do it.

The question is why are Labour making such a big fuss over something which hardly affects any people. Maybe the policy is fair and should be done, but it is hardly election pledge stuff is it?

I wondered if this was a bigger giveaway targeted at anyone who hasn't worked most of their lives (particularly where this has been a lifestyle choice rather than enforced by disability, unemployemnt etc), even when they had no children to look after. If so is it exclusively for women and do they need to have had children at all?

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anon

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