Department of Work and Pensions is ‘refusing to comply’ with demand for pension compensation
Women from the WASPI campaign assemble outside Parliament during Prime Minister’s Questions on International Women’s Day The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman said women born in the 1950s were affected by the DWP’s failure to
The Waspi group wants at least £10,000 for all 3.6 million women who expected to get their pension at 60, but had to wait another five or six years due to increases to the state pension age. She said: “DWP has clearly indicated that it will refuse to comply. This is unacceptable. The department must do the right thing and it must be held to account for failure to do so.”
The Waspi group says women born during the 1950s were not properly informed that their state pension would increase from 60 to 65, in line with men. It was later increased to 66 for both sexes, and is due to rise to 67 between 2026-28. “It is now for each political party to put their money where their mouth is and support compensation of that order,” she said earlier on Thursday., with £10,000 for all the women who received their pension much later than expected, and more for the worst affected.
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