The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign is taking legal advice after the UK Government rejected recommendations from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) for compensation for women affected by changes to their State Pension age. WASPI argues the government is spreading misinformation about how retirement age changes were communicated.
The Women Against State Pension Inequality ( WASPI ) campaign has said it is now taking fresh legal advice after the UK Government's announced earlier this week that it will not be following recommendations made by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) on compensation for women born in the 1950s affected by changes to their State Pension age.
WASPI campaigners have accused the Prime Minister of spreading “dangerous misinformation” in his defence of how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) communicated retirement age changes to around 3.5 million women across the UK. During Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer told MPs that “ninety per cent of women were aware of the changes” which campaigners have branded “misleading” and a distortion of the facts. Angela Madden, Chair of the WASPI campaign, explained: “This isn’t just misleading. It’s an insult to millions of 1950s-born women who were blindsided by these changes. The Ombudsman’s findings were based on rigorous evidence showing that 60 per cent of women had no idea their own State Pension age was rising. “The Government’s attempt to cherry-pick data to suggest otherwise is spreading dangerous misinformation, plain and simple.” Ms Madden continued: “The fact that 90 per cent of women had some general awareness of potential changes in the future does not mean they knew this would impact them personally. “That is exactly why the Ombudsman identified maladministration and why this Government’s continued attempts to muddy the waters are so unacceptable.” UK Government Updates After a six-year long investigation, the Ombudsman concluded in March 2024 that the UK Government’s failure to directly inform affected women was maladministration, resulting in financial hardship and emotional distress for million
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