WOMEN who lost tens of thousands of pounds in pensions when their state pension age was raised in the interests of “equality” will demonstrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice today as they launch legal action in their campaign for compensation.

Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) is fighting on behalf of 3.8 million women who were affected by the raising of women’s state pension age initially from 60 to 65.

Their campaign takes place against the background of Labour’s continuing attacks on pensioners, including the withdrawal of the Winter Fuel Allowance for most pensioners and refusal to raise the threshold at which pensioners pay income tax.