WASPI DEMANDS BINDING COMMONS VOTE ON PAYOUTS. Angela Madden says there must be Government time for a binding vote so all MPs can decide on compensation. The dispute deepens as ministers maintain most 1950s-born women were aware of pension age changes.

50 Labour Party MPs are writing to the government urging it to reconsider.

WASPI campaign twist after DWP told to ‘put compensation refusal right’

WASPI campaigners are urging the Labour Party government and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to u-turn over its stance on compensation. 50 Labour Party MPs are writing to the government urging it to reconsider.

Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey branded it as the “wrong decision”, with the letter saying: “We collectively represent millions of women born in the 1950s and express our grave disappointment that the Government has once again chosen to reject compensation for the 1950s women affected by state pension age changes.

“This was the wrong decision, but you have the opportunity to put this right.” It comes after MPs ruled out compensating women affected by the changes to their state pension age.

An Ombdusman report released in 2024 suggested women should be handed financial redress, on a sliding scale with £2,950 payouts for some.

But Labour has remained staunch in its stance that no payouts should be administered. DWP boss and Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said: “The evidence shows that the vast majority of 1950s-born women already knew the state pension age was increasing thanks to a wide range of public information, including through leaflets, education campaigns, information in GP surgeries, on TV, radio, cinema and online.”

He said a wider flat-rate scheme “would simply not be right or fair”, and to specifically compensate only those women who suffered injustice “would require a scheme that could reliably verify the individual circumstances of millions of women”.

A previous government decision not to offer redress was reviewed after the rediscovery of a 2007 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) evaluation, which at the time led to officials stopping sending out automatic pension forecast letters.

Angela Madden, chairwoman of Waspi, said: “There must be a binding vote on compensation in Government time so all our elected representatives can have their say.”

WASPI DEMANDS BINDING COMMONS VOTE ON PAYOUTS. Angela Madden says there must be Government time for a binding vote so all MPs can decide on compensation. The dispute deepens as ministers maintain most 1950s-born women were aware of pension age changes.

WASPI campaign twist after DWP told to ‘put compensation refusal right’

50 Labour Party MPs are writing to the government urging it to reconsider.

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