DWP urged to pay £20,000 to women affected by State Pension change

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been pushed to compensate women impacted by the State Pension age rise.

Organisation Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) launched a campaign following a 2019 ruling that resulted in almost 4 million woman born in the 1950s having their State Pension age upped to 66 from 60.

As reported by the Liverpool ECHO, a Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has ruled that the DWP should have informed the women affected by the change at least 28 months before it did.