Women’s state pension campaigners demand urgent vote on compensation
AN OPEN letter sent to the House of Commons today urged MPs to vote on compensating women impacted by state pension changes.
The letter, sent by campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi), amassed a whopping 28,000 signatures from supporters.
It was sent after the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failed to adequately communicate the rise in pension age after a five-year long investigation into the matter.
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