New petition from WASPI calls for State Pension age compensation scheme by March for all women
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA fresh online petition has been launched by the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign (WASPI), urging the UK Government to "fairly compensate" women born in the 1950s who have been impacted by changes to their State Pension age.
The petition also demands that the UK Government "urgently respond" to the recommendations in the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's (PHSO) final report, by March 21, 2015.
This deadline will mark a year since the Ombudsman released the results of its six-year probe into complaints lodged against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The report concluded that affected women born in the 1950s should have received at least 28 months' more individual notice from the DWP about the alterations to their State Pension age.
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