NICOLA Sturgeon and Mhairi Black will be among the speakers as Women Against State Pension Injustice (Waspi) protest changes to their state pension age and pension credits.
Women in their 60s from all over Scotland will take to the streets in Glasgow to demonstrate tomorrow.
Women born in the 1950s have had their state pension qualifying age changed by up to six years and face losses of up to £48,000.
State pension protest groups from all over Scotland are travelling to Glasgow to take part in a procession which starts at Festival Park near Pacific Quay and finishes at the Govan Cross Mary Barbour Statue.
The march commences at 1pm and aims to highlight the effects of changes to their State Pension ages, which were altered with little or, in some cases, no notice.
Following in the steps of Mary Barbour’s Army in 1915, they hope to raise awareness of the hardships many face daily by the delay in receiving their state pension.
Anne Potter, founder of the Glasgow and Lanarkshire Waspi campaign group, said: “This is an issue affecting 35,0000 women across Scotland and 3.8 million in the UK as a whole.”
The various groups have an ongoing Maladministration Campaign, which objects to the method the DWP used to notify women of the changes. A separate judicial review is scheduled for June.
Rosie Dickson co-cordinator of the group said: “Frustrations are running high now as many of these women have already had to work extra years or resort to benefits after expecting receipt of their pensions only to have the rug pulled away from them at the last minute.
“They are being denied the retirement they and their families had planned.”
As well as the Scottish First Minister and Black, other speakers at the event include Chris Stephens MP, Paul Sweeney MP and Fiona Steele of the Scottish Trades Union Congress.
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