Millions of women were left out of pocket when they retired due to changes in the State Pension
WASPI campaigners have told a committee of MPs that they believe the Department for Work and Pensions is "playing for time" and "trying to kick the ball into the long grass" on paying millions of women money that they are owed.
While the political debate over this compensation for up to 3.8 million women potentially affected by the inequality, more than 270,000 women have died without seeing a penny of the money that the UK's Health Service Ombudsman has said they were owed. The report, released in March, said: "the Department must do the right thing and it must be held to account for failure to do so."The ombudsman recommended that the most affected women be awarded between £1000 and £2950.
"It highlighted that many women had lost opportunities to make informed decisions about their finances and their future and it also called for the DWP to apologise to these women. But more importantly than that it confirmed that there was injustice and that redress should be payable to these women." She said: "They never accepted that they had done anything wrong. For years they have been, shall we say, hiding behind the Ombudsman's report, saying they can't possibly speak or meet with us.
Rebecca Long-Bailey MP State Pension
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