SNP MP Patricia Gibson is also urging the Ombudsman to ‘speedily conclude its investigations’ into the State Pension.
The SNP’s Patricia Gibson has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament for MPs to debate the “devastating impact of continuing unfair pension treatment of 1950s-born WASPI women . The North Ayrshire and Arran MP is also urging the UK Government to “respond promptly” to the findings from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report into the way the changes to the State Pension age were communicated.
The WASPI campaign was formed to help millions of women get ‘fair and fast compensation’ after some of the worst affected were only given a few months’ notice of a six-year delay to their eligibility for the State Pension. Top Money Stories Today In July 2021, the PHSO’s stage one investigation ruled that the DWP failed to communicate the age changes to those women with enough urgency, finding it guilty of ‘maladministration’. However, it was forced to row back on its Stage two report following a successful legal challenge by the WASPI campaign against the original draft, which was found to be unlawful.
“The [UK] Government decided over 25 years ago it was going to make the State Pension age the same for men and women. Both the High Court and Court of Appeal have supported the actions of the DWP under successive governments dating back to 1995 and the Supreme Court refused the claimants permission to appeal.”
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