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Linda Howard & Kate Lally

Ex DWP boss delivers bad news for millions expecting cash

A former DWP boss has warned millions of people who may be expecting huge sums of cash are likely to instead receive "tiny bits of compensation".

Former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Steve Webb, who held the post of pensions minister under the Coalition government, appeared on The Martin Lewis Money Show Live this week in a special edition of the programme looking at pensions. He is now a partner at Lane Clark and Peacock, the pensions consultancy firm which first helped identify State Pension underpayments for thousands of women.

The Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign (WASPI), Sir Webb said, may receive significantly less cash than expected once the Parliamentary Ombudsman has released its final report.

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