WASPI tell MPs that DWP are 'playing for time' on compensation worth up to £2950
manchestereveningnews.co.ukWASPI campaigners have told a committee of MPs that they believe the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is "playing for time" and "trying to kick the ball into the long grass" on paying millions of women money that they are owed.
The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign has argued for years that women born in the 1950s were not properly informed about changes to the state pension age, which in 1995 equalised the age at which men and women retire.
WASPI argues that many women were not properly informed about the changes, did not have time to prepare, and are owed compensation.
While the political debate over this compensation for up to 3.8 million women potentially affected by the inequality, more than 270,000 women have died without seeing a penny of the money that the UK's Health Service Ombudsman has said they were owed.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk