Scotland’s First Minister said women impacted by State Pension age changes should be given ‘justice, apology and compensation they deserve’.
Scotland’s First Minister has urged Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer to be “on the right side of history” in delivering compensation for women impacted by changes to the State Pension age. Humza Yousaf has written to who he said are the “current and future” incumbents of Downing Street after he met with Women Against State Pension Inequality campaigners outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday.
However, it was accelerated in 2010 to reduce the overall costs of pensions, with the new state pension age brought forward to 2018. But the Ombudsman report ruled accurate and timely information had not been given to millions of women in the UK, including 335,000 in Scotland. “I urge both the current and future occupants of 10 Downing Street to be on the right side of history, and am willing to work with both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer to ensure that the historic injustices faced by the WASPI women is now urgently put right.”
The PHSO suggested a compensation level of between £1,000 and £2,950 for impacted women, but Anne Potter, coordinator of WASPI Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire, said the sum did not reflect the “injustice” the women had experienced. Top Money Stories Today A DWP spokesman said: “We are considering the Ombudsman’s report and will respond in due course, having co-operated fully throughout this investigation.
The second reading of the State Pension Age Bill, which was brought before the House in February by SNP MP Alan Brown, will have its second reading on Friday, April 19.
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