The Department for Work and Pensions has issued an update over a bitter State Pension age change battle with campaigners. WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is seeking redress for everyone who was caught out by the shake-up in the system.
The group is calling for a one-off compensation payment of between £11,666 and £20,000 for all those affected by the DWP's failure to give women enough warning that the State Pension age was going up from 60 to 66.
A change to the national pension age for women, legislated for in 1995, wasn't communicated to most of those affected until 2012, leading the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) to find the DWP guilty of maladministration. It said that "the opportunity that additional notice would have given them to adjust their retirement plans was lost."
