Should Waspis really expect any compensation – or will we be ignored again?

saving to be answered by our expert, Tom Selby, director of public policy at investment platform AJ Bell. There is nothing he doesn’t know about pensions. If you have a question for him, email us at. I saw my state pension age increase by six years with very little notice, which has caused extreme distress to me and my family.

Campaigners have long argued the changes introduced under the 1995 and 2011 Pensions Acts were unfair to women born in the 1950s, with some forced to wait six years longer than they previously expected to receive their state pension. One of the central charges was that the Department for Work and Pensions failed to adequately notify affected women so they could adjust their retirement plans.

The second and third stage of the Ombudsman’s investigation, published last week, considered a number of additional issues including:There is a lot of detail in the full Ombudsman report which I don’t have the space to cover in this column, but if you’re interested, And the Government, so far at least, is refusing to pay up, resulting in the Ombudsman urging Parliament to intervene. What’s more, Labour, which is likely to form the next government if polling is to be believed, has yet to take a public stance on the issue.

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