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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rupert Jones

UK to reconsider decision to deny Waspi women pension payouts

Waspi campaigners stage a protest on College Green in Westminster, London, in 2024.
Waspi campaigners stage a protest on College Green in Westminster, London, in 2024. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Millions of “Waspi women” have been given fresh hope that they might receive compensation after the UK government announced it would revisit a decision to deny them payouts.

As many as 3.6 million women born in the 1950s are said to have lost out because of government failings in the way changes to the state pension age were made, prompting the Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign to launch in 2015.

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