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Bad News For Waspi Women
The Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman recommended compensatary payouts to the women affected by the changes in pension - the government and DWP have decided to ignore it.
What is the point of the Ombudsman if the governing bodies can choose to ignore them?
Sad day for many women
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Something any WASPI on here won't be pleased to hear. I was born at the same time as them. I knew from day one what was going to happen, it was all over the newspapers, and news. Had plenty of time to work out whether I needed to take any action or not.
I just can't believe it was a shock to so many when the letters arrived.
I've never fully understood the case. I think part of the problem is that the retirement age for women should not have been so low for so long... the equalisation should have started earlier, so the increase in retiremnet age when it happened was bigger for women than men. I've looked previously at the notice they were given and like ubasses wasn't convinced it was as unreasonable as some were suggesting, but i noted Martin Lewis seemed to think they were badly treated and I usually agree with his views on things, and the Ombudsman supported them too. I don;t always agree with ML and the ombudsman though- for example on PPI andcarfinance misselling.
I should look again at what their case was.
///....who brought test cases should receive between £1,000 and £2,950 compensation for maladministration as a result of the Department for Work and Pensions' failure to heed its own research showing that public campaigns were not reaching enough affected women, and found that individual letters should have been sent by it to affected women between 2007 and 2012. ///
This illustrates that far fewer women were aware of the changes than should have been.
My letter said, 'it is expected that the pension age for women will be increased over the next few years....' Not by how much, no specific timescale, union rep said likely from 60 to 63, not to 66 as it actually ended up. I had already committed to retiring at 55 knowing I could manage with my lump sum supplementing my reduced pension to around 63 , instead I found myself having to rely on handouts from family and selling possessions for three very long years. I would have tried to find work but by that time I was disabled and effectively unemployable.
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