Support Women Against Pension Poverty

Welcome!

The Support Women Against Pension Poverty (SWAPP) campaign aims to join together people around the country who believe that women get a raw deal on pensions and want to do something about it.

SWAPP was launched in May 2002. It is co-ordinated by Mrs Margaret Watts of Weymouth, and now has more than 1,000 members, who are encouraged to raise issues of pensions justice for women with their MPs.

The campaign is backed by MPs of all political parties. More than 200 have shown their support by signing a Parliamentary motion supporting SWAPP. This calls on the Government to ensure that present and future generations of women pensioners do not have to live in poverty in old age. To read the text of the motion, and to see which MPs have signed it, click here.

Latest News:

General Election imminent

As politicians gear up for the Election, SWAPP is encouraging members to write to their Parliamentary candidates of all parties. Click here for a sample letter, and how to contact your local candidates. Please take the time to do this. We are as near as we can be to some change in the way women’s pensions are administered. Do we really want to wait another four years before anyone will listen?

	Click here to read a recent article by Margaret Watts for the newsletter of the Wessex Pensioners Convention
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