The Chancellor said the safeguard would be kept throughout the next parliament under the Conservatives
Jeremy Hunt has promised the triple lock for pensions will be included in the Tory election manifesto but refused to commit to compensation for so-called Waspi women.
It has become a hallmark of successive Conservative governments since it was announced in 2010, but there has been a debate about its long-term future due its costs. The Liberal Democrats accused the Tories of playing a "shameless election trick" over the safeguard and claimed the party was "taking pensioners for granted".
He said the issue highlighted by the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign was "genuinely more complicated" than others in which compensation has been promised, like the infected blood disaster and the Post Office Horizon scandal. "So it appears to say something different and we do need to get to the bottom of that apparent difference between the two.""The money we would pay in compensation has to come from other taxpayers, so we do have to take time to get this fair."
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