WASPI women across the UK born on or after April 6, 1950, are still waiting on compensation
The Department for Work and Pensions has rejected a call from Lib Dem MP Helen Morgan to provide 3.8m women across the UK, who missed out on State Pension payments due to the change in retirement age, with an interim payment to help them through the ongoing cost of living crisis while a decision is made on the amount of compensation they are due.
“I wonder whether the Secretary of State will commit himself to an interim payment for the women affected by the change in pension age while they wait for the release of the ombudsman’s final report.” The WASPI campaign identified around 3.8 million women born in the 1950s who suddenly found they would have to work many more years when the State Pension age was increased to 65 between 2016 and 2018 and then to 66, for both men and women across the UK in October, 2020.
Changes to the State Pension age, which were legislated for in 1995, were not communicated through targeted letters to the affected women until 2008, leading the PHSO to find that "The opportunity that additional notice would have given them to adjust their retirement plans was lost”.
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