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Campaigners for Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign (Waspis) gather at the statue of political activist Mary Barbour, the woman who led rent strikes during the First World War, in Govan, Glasgow, to mark International Women's Day, August 18, 2023
THE government faced demands to apologise and fairly compensate thousands of women whose retirement plans were demolished overnight after the raising of the retirement age.
A five-year investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) released today found the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to adequately communicate the rise in pension age.
Some 3.8 million women born after April 6 1950 were hit by the changes.
As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT
MPs back measure for 66-year-olds but it won't end suffering, groups say
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE