The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have issued a fresh update over a battle over changes made to State Pension ages, with campaigners WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) reeking redress for all caught-out by the system shake-up.
The group are in-turn calling for a one-off compensation payment between the sum of £11,666 and £20,000, to be paid to all affected by the DWP's failure to give enough warning to women that their State Pension age was rising from 60 to 66.
A change to the national pension age for women, which was legalised in 1995, is said to have not been communicated to most affected until 2012 - which led the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) to find the DWP guilty of maladministration.
