DWP has suggested women affected by State Pension age changes get help to ‘retrain, return to or progress in work’
The Department for Work and Pensions has responded to calls to create a hardship fund for women affected by the change to the State Pension age.
The Conservative MP Sir John Hayes has now received a written response from the government after calling for a hardship fund for the women affected. Pensions Minister Emma Reynolds said that the “best way to support people, including women who have been affected by the change to the State Pension Age is to help them to retrain, return to or progress in work”.
The PHSO report stated that “Parliament must urgently identify a mechanism for providing that appropriate remedy” and recommended compensation equivalent to Level four on its banding scale, which is worth between £1,000 and £2,950. The meeting between Ms Reynolds and WASPI representatives was held in private at Westminster at the start of this month. However, appearing on BBC Breakfast the day after the meeting, Ms Madden explained how the campaign for justice has been running for nearly 10 years and this was the first time a meeting with a Pensions Minister had taken place to discuss taking the recommendations made by the PHSO forward.
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