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Unionist campaign chief says WASPI women were 'simply too feckless'

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THE chief executive of a Unionist campaign group has sparked a row after claiming the “WASPI” women who lost out amid changes to the state…

THE chief executive of a Unionist campaign group has sparked a row after claiming the “WASPI” women who lost out amid changes to the state pension age should not be paid compensation as they were “too feckless”.

“Principled and correct from Labour,” Taylor wrote. “The government should not be paying compensation to women simply because they were too feckless to look up their own state pension age.”MSP and presiding officer Tricia Marwick, who had written in response to Dodds: “When I started work at 16 I expected my pension when I was 60. I paid for it every pay day.The 1995 Pensions Act and subsequent legislation raised the state pension age for women born on or after April 6, 1950.

Green MSP Ross Greer shared Taylor’s comment, writing: “Labour and Tory MSPs take this guy seriously and here he is calling the WASPI women 'too feckless'.”

 

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