Ex,
Did you ever actually sign on to 55, which is the whole thrust of SRENNPS post. If you did he, like me cannot fathom how you got booted out at 47?
If, as I was, you were offered "age 55" at an early age and decided to hold back for bets then fell fowl of the new "Age 47" criteria then you like me have no one to blame but yourself
I was lucky that I remustered and now find myself sitting pretty but I know of plenty of folk like your self who dipped out in this manner but I know of no one who was signed onto 55 that was forced out at 47.