The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign is calling for an immediate one-off compensation payment of between £11,666 and £20,000 for millions of older women across the UK, with the higher amounts going to those who were given the shortest notice of the longest increase in their State Pension age.
The WASPI campaign identified around 3.8 million women born in the 1950s suddenly found they would have to work many more years when the State Pension age was increased to 65 between 2016 and 2018 and then to 66, for both men and women across the UK in October, 2020.
In July 2021, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to communicate the changes with enough urgency, finding it guilty of maladministration, and is currently investigating the harm caused.
