Labour refuses to commit to compensation for Waspi women

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A senior Labour MP has refused to commit to giving compensation to women born in the 1950s affected by changes to the state pension age.

Anneliese Dodds said the Waspi women deserved "respect" but did not say that a Labour government would compensate them. It comes after the the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to adequately communicate changes to women’s state pension age.

It also said the women deserved an apology and compensation.Aberdeen native Dodds was asked on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg if the women should be compesnated.The Labour chair said: “I believe in principle, those women deserve respect, that's the most important [thing].“I think Laura, if I was to sit in your studio and I was to say, plucking out of the air, this is exactly how, for example, compensation should work or other elements of the response to the Waspi women … I don't think they would believe me, frankly, and nor should they.”When pushed as to why the party supported this in 2019 but wouldn't commit now, she said: “Unfortunately, of course, Labour lost the last election.

We did not win on the agenda that we set out to the general public in 2019.“But also circumstances have changed radically as well.