New WASPI petition calls for urgent MP debate on 'substantial compensation' due for State Pension changes

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More than 41,000 people have signed an online petition created by Angela Madden, chair of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign, urging the Leader of the House of Commons to “urgently” give MPs the opportunity to debate and vote on compensation for women affected by changes to their State Pension age.Last week, the long-awaited Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s (PHSO) report found that thousands of women born in the 1950s may have been affected by the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) failure to adequately inform them that the State Pension age was changing.

The Ombudsman has now asked Parliament to identify a mechanism for providing appropriate remedy for those who have suffered injustice.The report issued last week said: “We think this will provide the quickest route to remedy for those who have suffered injustice because of DWP’s maladministration.”In the open letter to Penny Mordaunt MP, Ms Madden said: “The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has confirmed that WASPI women are due compensation.

But the Department for Work and Pensions refuses to comply.“The All-Party Parliamentary Group on this issue - which is backed by hundreds of MPs across party lines - has long backed substantial compensation.“The Commons must urgently have the opportunity to debate and vote on their proposals, and any others that MPs wish to bring forward.”The campaigner adds: “After all, with 3.5 million affected - and one dying every 13 minutes - everyone knows somebody who has been affected by the DWP’s incompetence and neglect of 1950s-born women.”You can view the letter and track progress of the petition on the Change.org website here.In a statement on Monday in the Commons on the PHSO’s