We urgently need the resources to follow through on our threat of judicial review and challenge the Ombudsman's Stage 2 decisions. Pingback: Exclusive: Betrayal Parliamentary Ombudsman dumps on 3.6 million 50s born women | Westminster Confidential, I was born in 19 Fifty three I have suffered My Health I have rheumatoid Also I have a stoma bag I have to take cancer drug everyday as I have cancer I have to take war friend because of blood clots I have to take Emerald and lot of this has caused me Distress as I cannot afford anyone to come in and help me and my husband Is ill as well If I would have received My pension when I was 60 I could have done more To help pay for someone to come in and look after me I think its disgusting that I work from the Age of 14 and I have lost 4 years and 2 months All I want Is compensation For what I have lost. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. They call themselves Waspi women, which stands for Women Against State Pension Injustice, and refuse to give up the fight. [GUIDE]Massive struggle ahead for Britons who use up savings[INSIGHT]State pension changes could see thousands losing free NHS prescription[REVEAL]. If as we believe the Stage 2 report is fundamentally flawed because of what it concludes on injustice, there can never be just compensation for the injustices identified. There is no 6,000 maximum. It is now deep into the second stage, whether the maladministration led to injustice, which Simpson hopes will be completed any day now. Many women born in the 1950s have been scraping by on minimal income, while waiting to receive their delayed State Pension. The WASPI campaign is calling for an immediate one-off compensation payment of between 11,666 and 20,000, with the most going to women who were given the shortest notice of the longest increase in their state pension age. The papers for our judicial review case against the Ombudsman were filed yesterday. Discrimination by age needs to be taken to High Court, by the retired sections of trade unions and Age UK and National Pensioners Convention. Some women were given only one year's notice of a six-year delay to their retirement. I am actually worse off than a friend who is on the basic pension who gets it topped up with pension credit and she actually receives just over 7 than me! She said 3.6m women which covers April 1960 to April 1960. They have now won public pledges of support from leaders. It investigates in private, meaning it cannot provide detailed information on its findings until the investigation is complete. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. Secondly Waspi is campaigning for all women born 6th April 1950 to 5th April 1960 and the total is 3.8m women. Grey Swans is the most unique of all pension campaigns, as has stopped campaigning like a begging bowl to the rich, to any elected political type, and is asking for moral support from 1950s to 1980s born ladies, please, for creation of a new Over 50s (saves all ages) party, that offers by getting into a new government, by your kind votes, at next general election: 35,000 compensation to 1950s ladies I keep asking David Hencke, please, to help Grey Swans pension groups campaign to gain moral support for our new Over 50s (saves all ages) party, that appears now to be the only way we will get some compensation and save the next victims, of the 1960s to 1980s born ladies with pension age 67 and 68 now and forever and pensioner poverty (mostly women, mostly living alone more than men). As to letting Angela Madden and the Waspi board speak for themselves I very much hope they dont join in your mud slinging. Please, as ever, keep spreading the word about our case among your family, friends and colleagues and help us to reach that 100,000 target so that we can fight for justice on behalf of all WASPI women. When a brief interlude of a different kind of Labour leader came into being, he was sabotaged by his own party, when offering pension age 60 to men in his 1983 election manifesto, and living state pension to men and women the same. www dot over50sparty dot org dot uk. Dear Robert Crutchlow, frozen state pensions for Brit Expats in particular but not all countries, was the system from the proper start of National Insurance. Waspi women have been working to get MPs onside, and have won support from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Lib Dem leader Ed Davies, as well as Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Plaid Cymru and even some Tory MPs. Please donate whatever you can afford to the fighting fund through CrowdJustice. What we have now is your opinion of what may happen rather than the complete story. Born January 1954. They sum up why we need the Ombudsmans position to change: I wish to say something on behalf of WASPIs members. Campaigners calculate the average women born in the 1950s lost up to 50,000 in State Pension as a result. I am 55 this year. 68 last month WASPI . The Ombudsman is not a court but can recommend compensation where maladministration (defective decision making by government departments) causes injustice. The 50s women should be at the top of the list. It insisted that it had been supported by both the High Court and Court of Appeal, which found it acted entirely lawfully and did not discriminate on any grounds. It marks a significant victory for the Waspi (Women. The latest findings reaffirm what the WASPI campaigners, which represents many of the 3.8 million affected - including 5,600 women across the Jarrow constituency - have been calling for since the. No legal case has a certain outcome, but we believe this is a strong one and the Ombudsmans answers to our arguments are not at all convincing. The meeting began with a statement from Angela Madden but it was difficult to hear her clearly at the back of the room because of the acoustics and early on the organisers asked her to speak up. We lawfully represent all #50sWomen via our legal team out of our Judicial Review and Tribunal: unlike other self appointed oracles. We are (majority of us), mothers,sisters,wives,grandmothers, who have spent our lives 24 hours a day trying to keep our families together. Now there are rumours that people over 60 will now have to pay for their prescriptions. Its not just ministers that are not listening to Waspi, its the ombudsman as well, who appears to be following the Govt playbook very closely i.e. This is a plea on behalf of the millions of us woman, to sort this out and do the right thing, and not wait for the millions of letters you wil receive regarding the deaths of the women concerned. Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) are a voluntary campaign group campaigning for women in the UK negatively affected by the failure of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to adequately communicate the change to their State Pension age. 50s women have been badly let down by the very people who should be looking out for us and Im afraid you must take your fair share of the blame. Dear Jimmy Sturdy, Judicial Review - WASPI - Women Against State Pension Inequality Our judicial review case against the Ombudsman in an nutshell - and what it means for WASPI women. The Ombudsman service is in desperate need of an enquiry into how it operates and reform. Read Free Health Risks And Fair Compensation In The Fire Service Risk Fair compensation for WASPI women - Crowdjustice.com Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said . Waspi: retired men have 70% more income than women Labour are as bad as the rest ,none worth voting for .I am 73 and experienced them all Waspi will get nothing from any of them.Nothing came through our door regarding pension change I also always tuned into BBC radio news in my truck from1979 until I finished in2022, they have stolen and cheated the waspi women and all those before them.NEXT ELECTION our family will vote NONE with a line through and please do not say it is a waste. It seems to me that Angela Madden silence on these reports speak volumes? They argued that they did not get proper warning for the change, and many did not realise they would have to work for up to six years longer until the last minute. Can someone explain how I am better off. In applying the scale we will take into consideration the injustice the person affected says they have experienced. I dont know if mine got through to the Ombudsman, although I sent all 4 legal template letters. A decision is expected soon and they are enjoying high level support for their campaign. WASPI pension battle update over DWP refusal on compensation talks On behalf of every member of WASPI, and all 1950s women in similar positions, we want to express our heartfelt thanks for all the donations made so far to our crowdfunding campaign to raise the money needed to challenge the Ombudsmans astonishing and legally flawed findings about the injustice we have suffered. If look at the groups of people you can calculate the lifetime discrimination by facts. The ICE complaint handling is only one small part of the whole investigation so why pick on that part and ignore the sections where maladministration was found? That would tell any logical thinking person there is something untoward going on within this group. Grey Swans is the only campaign that does not keep banging our heads against the brick wall of elected politicians, by seeking to gain moral support for creation of our new Over 50s (saves all ages) party, as would be the sole way once in existence, to gain 35,000 compensation to 1950s ladies and tapered compensation to the 1960s born (turning 60 since 2020), as well as pension age 60 for the 1960s born. WASPI held a fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Liverpool this week. David there is enough misinformation going around without you adding to it by being rather economical with the truth. When those sort of choices are significant, the Ombudsman often recommends a higher level of compensation given the injustice. Perhaps you should stop listening to David Henckes flawed reporting. The DWP ultimately started its direct mailing campaign to inform them in April 2009, but should have started much sooner. If the Ombudsman says the maladministration did lead to injustice, their hopes of a financial settlement will rise sharply. But the WASPI campaign's main bone of contention is that officials failed to give the women affected enough direct warning their state pension age would be increasing from 60 to 65, and then 66. The Secretary of State responsible for the DWP is likely to do so, for example. Davey joins the leaders of the Labour Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru who have also pledged their support. The topic is at the heart of a campaign spearheaded by Women Against State Pension Inequality; commonly known as WASPI. This follows a recent pledge of support from Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Tapered from 1951 to 1953 and born from 1960. If what you have reported is in any way false then now is the time to for Angela Madden to speak up. Your card will only be charged if the case meets its target of 100,000 by Mar. All these comments are basically about how much compensation women should get. Many did not realise until the last minute that they would have to work for five or six years longer, and suffered massive hardship. Then Trudy could PM me please. Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) are waiting for a verdict on the state pension compensation as 'cruel rumours' fly on social media adding to the uncertainty over how . MORE than 3.5 million women born in the 1950s who were forced to work up to six years longer than expected have fought long and hard for redress. Pension inequality for WASPI women - Labour Party Some have argued, however, that women, particularly those born in the 1950s, were not given ample time to prepare for these changes, and thus have been negatively impacted as a result. 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