New petition calls for State Pension age compensation scheme for WASPI women

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A new online petition created and posted by the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign (WASPI) is calling on the UK Government to “fairly compensate” women born in the 1950s affected by changes to their State Pension age.

The petition also wants the UK Government to “urgently respond” to the recommendations in the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) final report, by March 21, 2015.

The deadline will mark one year since the Ombudsman published the findings of its six-year investigation into complaints made against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The report found that affected women born in the 1950s should have had at least 28 months’ more individual notice from the DWP of the changes to their State Pension age.The PHSO also said that for women who were not aware of the changes, the opportunity that additional notice would have given them to adjust their retirement plans was lost due to delay.