PKC calls for immediate action to compensate female pensioners born in the 1950s

Perth and Kinross Council has unanimously called for women born in the 1950s - affected by changes to the state pension age - to be compensated.

A statement on the Women Against State Pension Inequality website states: "We are angry that we have been treated unfairly and unequally just because of the day we were born. Significant changes to the age we receive our state pension have been imposed upon us with a lack of appropriate notification, with little or no notice and much faster than we were promised – some of us have been hit by more than one increase.

It added: "Council calls upon the council leader to write to local members of parliament and to the secretary of state for Work and Pensions to say Perth and Kinross councillors stand by the WASPI women's right to compensation. We ask that the UK Government act now with an immediate compensation payout scheme for those who were affected by the changes."

Lib Dem councillor Liz Barrett sought to strengthen the motion with a few changes and called for "immediate action".

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