"I am aware there are other groups competing for this money, but it is a choice this government needs to make. Is it right to take away the income of a whole generation of people?"
She added: "It must be daunting for financial advisers to have to help this group of people, many of whom may not have made the plans others did; may not have had the opportunities that others had."
Ms Tarttelin mentioned these women in particular needed financial advice. She highlighted that these women would have started work in the 1970s on unequal pay, they would have faced a gender pay gap all their lives, and definitely need help now.
"To have six years of income taken away is very daunting and I think financial advisers must have a huge job on their hands to try and put together a package to help them through to the new state pension age."
However, Ms Tarttelin said the Waspi campaign had already garnered a lot of success, upon which it will build in 2017.
She explained: "We have had five parliamentary debates, which is unprecedented, and we have an all-party parliamentary group which is looking just at the Waspi issue and we now have a company limited by guarantee and a membership programme.
"This will support legal challenges to the government and the injustice and the maladministration we have undergone.
"Waspi has lots planned for 2017 and we are going to work hard with the government this year. We are hopeful that we begin to get the attention of the government - and particularly prime minister Theresa May, who is a 1950s woman herself."
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