That is tough on them when a more equitable money-saving measure might have involved cutting the universal benefits, from cold winter fuel allowances to free bus passes or free television licences, that this government has preserved for even the wealthiest older voters.
These are the companies struggling most to meet withdrawals, and in the case of Friends Provident and Scottish Equitable, the money of around 240,000 people has been frozen for up to a year.
It brings to mind the efforts of ordinary citizens across the Arab world who are demanding employment, social justice and the equitable distribution of money, power and resources.
They were looking for a more equitable share of money from the £1.5bn business, in which the spoils are shared mostly by the bigger teams.
The most politically sensitive of the newly de-sported claim not to blame assertive women so much as the clumsy way in which the rules are followed; Title IX is about equal access for all, they say, not about equitable distribution of money and resources.
"You've got to focus on the principle rather than get hung up on the numbers and the principles we've got to get in place first are a financial distribution to give clubs further down the league a more equitable spread of money, one league body, play-offs, pyramid structure, parachute payments.
It constitutes a risk management procedure for the payment of an equitable amount of money.
They weren't begging for more money – just a more equitable distribution of funds instead of a system designed to encourage the stronger teams to get stronger.
The equitable distribution of TV money.
It's about an equitable distribution of the money.
The judges also try to focus on the most equitable way to return money to victims, not necessarily the potential fallout for one investor or another.
