The wait drags on for 1,000s of women
The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign are facing a new delay waiting on an ombudsman's review into State Pension age changes.
She received the standard response from Pensions Minister Laura Trott MP “that It would not be appropriate to comment on the investigation while it is ongoing”. Under section 7 of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, it states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”. Recent research from the WASPI campaign suggests that changes to the State Pension age have had a huge impact on millions of women born in the 1950s. It found that almost half of the 7,000 WASPI women, who participated in the survey, have struggled to pay household bills over the last six months.
By this time many had made life changing decisions, reducing their hours, turning down promotions, or taking early retirement because they believed their State Pension would come in at 60. The WASPI campaign argues that this lack of notice robbed millions of women of the ability to adequately plan for their retirement.
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