‘There will be disappointment,’ warns former pensions minister – as campaigners urge parties to commit to £10,000 for every woman affected
‘There will be disappointment,’ warns former pensions minister – as campaigners urge parties to commit to £10,000 for every woman affectedfailed to properly inform women born in the 1950s
But this amount falls far short of what the Waspi campaign group wants, having called for at least £10,000 each.“There will be disappointment,” said former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann. She believed the recommended payments of up to £2,950 means any Wapsi women who are eventually compensated would likely not get as much £10,000.The ombudsman’s report said that based on a test group of six complainants’ cases, it would recommend a level 4 compensation of between £1,000 and £2,950 to reflect a “significant and/or lasting injustice”.
The watchdog also noted that compensating all women born in the 1950s at the level 4 range “would involve spending between around £3.5bn and £10.5bn of public funds, though we understand not all of them will have suffered injustice”. But he warned that a scheme would almost certainly by “highly targeted”, rather than applying to all 3.6 million women affected by the state pension age changes.
Senior Tory MP Peter Aldous, the vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Waspi issue, backed the idea of £10,000 for all women affected.
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