WASPI campaigners are seeking redress
The Department for Work and Pensions has issued an update over a bitter State Pension age change battle with campaigners. WASPI is seeking redress for everyone who was caught out by the shake-up in the system.
Pensions Minister Guy Opperman responded by saying: "State Pension age issues have been debated extensively in the House over many years, and subsequently litigated in the highest courts in the land. The PHSO Ombudsman’s investigation into communication of changes to women's State Pension is ongoing; section 7 of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations 'shall be conducted in private.
The ombudsman explained that after finding maladministration: "We then move to the second stage and consider whether it led to an injustice for the complainant. At the second stage, we would also consider the complaints about DWP not adequately communicating the required number of years of national insurance contributions to receive a full state pension, as well as DWP’s and ICE’s complaint handling.
Campaigners say their research indicates that by the end of this year 220,000 affected women will have already died during the lengthy wait for compensation. The error impacted around 3.6 million women who were born on or after April 6, 1950.
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