WASPI women face further delay as DWP needs 'to conduct a thorough review'

Women fighting against State Pension injustice are facing further delays to compensation after it has emerged that the UK Government needs 'time to conduct a thorough review'. Rishi Sunak told MPs that he "understands the strong feelings" around the lack of response to the WASPI issue, which has affected 400,000 women who were born in the 1950s across the North West.

"I was proud to see the Scottish Parliament support a motion last week calling for compensation to be delivered without delay, but utterly dismayed to see members of both the Conservative party and the Labour party abstain. Two senior figures from the WASPI Campaign set out details of a 'two-pronged' compensation plan for 1950s-born women impacted by changes to their State Pension age during an oral evidence session in front of the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee on Tuesday.

Despite the PHSO's recommendation for compensation at Level 4 of its scalebetween £1,000 and £2,950WASPI believes an additional payment is crucial to fully acknowledge the injustice. WASPI chair Angela Madden commented after the session, expressing approval of the Work and Pensions Select Committee's engagement: "We welcome the serious and thorough questions asked today by members of the Work and Pensions Select Committee and the cross-party support for our approach. It is now for the government to give proper time to Parliament to debate and vote on a fair compensation scheme. The DWP cannot just keep ignoring us.

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