SNP MP Patricia Gibson paid tribute to the “dogged determination” of women born in the 1950s who continue to “campaign against the injustice they have suffered” due to changes made to the State Pension age. The North Ayrshire and Arran MP also called on the UK Government to “work with the WASPI women to work out how they can be compensated when the ruling on the matter is made”.
The Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign (WASPI) is seeking compensation for some 3.8 million women across Great Britain who missed out on State Pension payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) when the official age of retirement was raised from 60 to 65 between April 2010 and November 2018. It later increased to 66 for men and women in October 2020.
Ms Gibson made the comments during a cross-party debate last week on ‘support for women in poverty’ which was held following an application from DUP MP Jim Shannon to the Backbench Business Committee.
