New State Pension age compensation update for WASPI women due ‘in near future’ from DWP

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The Prime Minister has said that WASPI women (Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign) and other women born in the 1950s affected by changes to their State Pension age could hear an update about a compensation plan “in the not too distant future”.

Sir Keir Starmer has told reporters that the Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Liz Kendall will make a statement “on this in the not too distant future”.Asked by reporters on the trip to the G20 summit in Brazil why State Pension age compensation was taking so long, the Prime Minister said: “The DWP secretary will be making a statement on this in the not too distant future.

Obviously it’s a very serious report, and the response will be set out by the DWP Secretary.”Last week, Ms Kendall told the Work and Pensions Committee that she will resolve the issue of State Pension age compensation for WASPI women “as soon as possible”.

The DWP boss said that it is “extremely complicated” and there is “lots of information to go through” but that the UK Government “needs to get it right”.A report published in March by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) 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.It 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.The report stated that “Parliament must urgently identify a mechanism for providing that appropriate remedy” and recommended compensation equivalent to Level four on its banding scale, which is worth between £1,000 and £2,950.During DWP questions in