The government has been accused of failing to do more to help 2.6 million women born in the 1950s who have lost out because of changes to pension law.
The SNP's Mhairi Black said it was "laughable" the problem could not be fixed when the government had found £1bn to fund its deal with the DUP.
Minister Guy Opperman said he would look at cases of financial hardship.
But he faced shouts of "shame on you" when he said the government was "actually doing a significant amount" to address the individual difficulties of older workers trying to enter the labour market - including by offering them apprenticeships.
Mr Opperman, setting out the government's work on "lifelong learning" said: "The reality is over 200,000 people over 60 have entered further education since 2014/15.
"We have also extended apprenticeship opportunities as one of the best routes to skilled employment for people of all ages and gender.
"Such apprenticeships in England, for example, in 2014/15... 12% of the starting apprenticeships were for those aged 45."
Mr Opperman was heckled by MPs as he outlined the details.
Labour's Graham Jones, raising a point of order, said: "I'm struggling to hear the debate, did the minister just say that women aged 64 could go on an apprenticeship course?"
The debate centred on the plight of the so-called Waspi women - Women Against State Pension Inequality - whose aim is to achieve fair transitional arrangements for women born in the 1950s, for whom the state pension age is being raised from 60 to 66 by 2020.
Ms Black said she had been contacted by a woman who said her friend had committed suicide after the general election result "because she could not face what was going to happen to her".
"Citizens committing suicide over an issue that could be solved like that - an issue the government could do a U-turn on at any given moment," she said.
Ms Black said it was "an absolute disgrace" that a debate on the issue was having to be held again.
Turning to Mr Opperman, a pensions minister, she said it was "laughable" that the government "can find a billion pounds for a deal to cling on to power, but we cannot find the money to give women the pensions that they are due".
"The only other two things they are guilty of is being born in the 50s and the fact they are women."
Labour's Carolyn Harris said the government "has betrayed these women - they've stolen their security and they've shattered their dreams without time to prepare and make the necessary alternative arrangements".

Myrtle Cothill, from South Africa, has been cared for by her daughter in Dorset since coming to the UK in 2014.
She had been ordered to fly home on Tuesday but the Home Office has halted proceedings pending a medical report.
Lawyer Jan Doerfel said sending Mrs Cothill home, where she had no close family, was against her human rights.
The Home Office said its decision had been upheld by two separate immigration tribunals and the suspension of her expulsion from the UK was only temporary.
Immigration lawyer Mr Doerful said: "If they don't reconsider, we'll have to see what the appeal rights are.
"We are still calling on people to help us fund taking her case to the European Court of Human rights because we believe this decision is in violation of her right to family life with her daughter in the UK."
More than 84,000 people have signed a petition urging the Home Office to allow Mrs Cothill to stay.
The widow, who came to the UK on a tourist visa, has heart problems, is losing her eyesight and cannot walk unaided.
Her daughter Mary Wills said: "Financially, she was really battling. She was not eating properly and her health was going down."
Mrs Cothill said: "I want to be with my daughter until my end. I've only got her and I feel I have no-one else I could depend on and rely on."
But the government is not convinced she should be allowed to stay.
The second of her immigration tribunals concluded it was "implicit" Mrs Cothill entered the UK as a visitor "by deception" because, among other things, she disposed of her property in South Africa before leaving the country.
A Home Office spokesman said all applications were considered on their individual merits and in line with the immigration rules.
A minister has been heckled by MPs for suggesting women over 60 facing poverty could start an apprenticeship.
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