State Pension age compensation Bill for millions of WASPI women due in Parliament this week
dailyrecord.co.ukThere are two key dates women born in the 1950s impacted by changes to the State Pension age should add to their diary this week as MPs return to Parliament after the Easter recess.
The second reading of the State Pension Age (Compensation) Bill, which was brought before the House in February by SNP MP Alan Brown, will have its second reading on Friday, April 19.
On February 7, the Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP said the “lack of resolution” for the 3.8 million WASPI Women (Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign) is a “disgrace”.
Brown used the 10-minute rule procedure in the Commons to introduce the Bill, backed by 12 SNP, Labour and Lib Dem MPs. He said that a “fair and fast compensation is the simple scheme that the WASPI women are looking for” adding that as a minimum, level five of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) remedy scale should be given - this would be between £3,000 -£9,950.
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