Iam working on this as an individual as I have 20 years of evidence but dont have any money to take a legal case. Women Against State Pension Inequality ( WASPI) is a voluntary UK -based organisation founded in 2015 that campaigns against the way in which the state pension age for men and women was equalised. Our year was the most unfair, I dont know how this was ever allowed to go through. @DorothySpringer As you have appointed yourself, to use your terminology, mudslinger for #WaSpi Angela Madden & Board, you would do well to look in the mirror. The case is then referred to a High Court judge (the most senior type of judge dealing with legal cases at this stage) and they decide on whether there should be permission to proceed taking account of the strength of the case (it must be arguable), its importance, the timing and who is bringing it. We can only consider whether it is more likely than not failings in DWPs communication of those changes had the financial consequences women claim.. Pension POLL: Should triple lock be broken if pensions rise 8%? For decades,. Follow each other over the cliff edge, Pension 60 for 1960s born who have pension age 67 (they started turning 60 from 2020). 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? 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. We urgently need the resources to follow through on our threat of judicial review and challenge the Ombudsman's Stage 2 decisions. Were two thirds of the way to our target and we cant thank you enough for your pledges and thesupport that has got us to this point. Well at least this is getting talked about . Take care when writing your will five mistakes to avoid or your f State Pension triple lock doomed as axing it will save 10 billion. 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. World . 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 . Clement Attlee won in 1945 against the war hero Winston Churchill and gave us all that we have pretty well lost now. We are Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI), women born in the 1950s, fighting for fair compensation for maladministration by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). 24, 2023, 7 p.m. We lawfully represent all #50sWomen via our legal team out of our Judicial Review and Tribunal: unlike other self appointed oracles. The person affected died of sepsis due to a failure of a hospital to carry out appropriate and thorough investigations of their symptoms. The issues were very different. I am still working at 68 years old as well as looking after my 92year old mother with Dementia who now lives with me. In these cases recovery is likely to take a significant amount of time. The Ombudsman may recommend compensation for worry and anxiety (normally very small amounts), loss of opportunity (typically more) and direct financial losses (money lost because different choices could and would have been made with a better financial outcome for the individual had there been no maladministration). I would really like to know what happened to the pension pot. 448.12 per week state pension for all pensioners, old and new, including the frozen pensioner Brit Expats abroad. which unlimited page website, published manifesto, was crowdfunded by pension campaign ladies as individuals, gathered from all our misery heaped on our head by Tory, Labour and Lib Dems governments alike since 1978 onwards. The cost-of-living crisis outlined in Labour's Families First Consultation document is hitting the affected women and their families particularly hard. People can and do make mistakes and yes the sound may not have been good but at least have the decency to admit your mistake. But after another journalist who was reporting the meeting and some people from Waspi say compensation was only for the3.6 million people I have amended my earlier report. Born January 1954. Q1: Whats happening with the case right now? If what you have reported is in any way false then now is the time to for Angela Madden to speak up. The more 1950s and 1960s ladies show moral support, the more knowledgeable types can bring the Over 50s party into existence, that only costs about the price of a cheap 2nd hand car, shared between them, for the legal fees (got a formal estimate from a specialist law firm) to register so can run in general election. The Ombudsman has, however, provided insight into how the complaints will be investigated. If they are not going to offer compensation perhaps they could just give us Co-op funeral vouchers. They call for the millions of women affected by the change to receive compensation. The ombudsman uses a compensation scale where the amounts range from zero to more than 10,000. She said 3.6m women and not 6m women. He considers there was injustice, but in the cases he looked at closely in Stage 2 of his investigation (the six sample complainants) he concludes there were no lost opportunities and no direct financial loss at all as a result of the DWP maladministration. 448.12 per week state pension for all pensioners, old and new, men and women the same. The pandemic has killed off pensioners at the rate of 1bn less paid out in state pension going on into the future. However, this is not the case as the state pension age used to be 60 for women and 65 for men. 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. The second report decided that ICEs handling of complaints did not justify compensation and it discusses whether the health and financial impacts justify maladministration compensation and seems to decide that while compensation may be justified not at that level. As for showing respect towards David Hencke, I will do so when he admits his mistake and reports accurately. We believe he has been and that he must think again about the injustices we have experienced. #WASPI women count and can calculate. In its submission to the Ombudsman, the Women All-Party Parliamentary Group suggested they get at least 10,000. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Only a new party in a new government in UK can pay a full state pension with triple lock annual rises. Take out quiz to find out if you'd get into grammar school, Inside the Gloucestershire cottage with views of Wales from the windows. The Ombudsman is to examine the complaints brought to it, regarding communication of changes to the womens state pension age, as well as related issues. With regards to the ongoing points raised by women affected, a DWP spokesperson commented to Express.co.uk on the matter. State Pensionage is currently undergoing a change for both men and women, but this is not the first alteration to take place. Several comments on this thread about the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. We decided to take that step now, given we are so close to our initial fundraising target and are confident you will help us reach it. waspi .co .uk. As mentioned previously, our legal team has put our arguments to the Ombudsman. Meanwhile WASPI is hard at work raising the money needed to make the issuing the legal claim possible through CrowdJustice. #SHEnoughIsSHEnough. Incomplete investigations prior to hip surgery, inadequate consent and record keeping led to the complainant experiencing the pain discomfort and distress of a hip replacement that was unneeded. During the 2019 general election, then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the country owed a moral debt to Waspi woman and promised them an average payment of 15,380. Express.co.uk repeatedly highlighted the plight facing Waspi women, who often have incredible tales of hardship to tell. She repeated that Keir Starmer was sympathetic and wanted to compensate the women. She then explains the profound disappointment we felt on reading the final Stage 2 report in this way: It felt that we were right back where we started, with our experiences disbelieved and the injustices we have suffered inexplicably being decoupled from the maladministration that was their cause. The economy has tanked and ALL victims will need more than ever every penny owing to them to encounter the horrors to come. Another change in 2011 accelerated the rise to 65 and increased it to 66 for both men and women by 2020., DON'T MISS:April's 13.25% National Insurance hike faces axe -'Sunak must act NOW[INSIGHT]Sunak launches new inheritance tax and capital gains tax grab in April[REVEAL]Millions to retire on just 1,000 - bleak outlook on State Pension[WARNING]. This follows a recent pledge of support from Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). - For the self-employed: 129 a week, 560 a month, 6,725 a year. It is because men do not care about the state pension, that so much discrimination was done against us to butcher what little state pension we had, in all governments continually since 1978. Simpson said they are are not giving up. If maladministration is detected, which is not a certainty, then the second stage determines whether this led to an injustice for the complainant. If that had happened, most women would have known about the changes by 2009. Angela Madden, Waspi's campaign leader did put a figure on compensation for the pensioners for a one off payment -from 10,000 to 20,000 at a cost of 40 billion to 50 billion. WASPI spokeswoman Angela Madden said: School boy error. Provision should be made to pay 1950 and 1960 women the difference in lifetime discrimination as compensation which is fair and can be calculated. Many only found out about the change in 2012, by which time many had already left work. We also have a very different view from the Ombudsman about what women should have to do to prove that they suffered financial losses because of the DWP's maladministration. Our fundraising has been going incredibly well over the weekend: we are now over 60% of the way to our target of the fighting fund needed to get our case into court and moving forward with WASPI adequately protected. Like you I am in poor health with osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, thyroid disorder, glaucoma, asthma, vitiligo and in pain every single day. There is no 6,000 maximum. WASPI and BackTo60 cannot unite, as the complaints are entirely different. As long as enough money is raised, we will issue the claim next week and start the judicial review. The local group has been campaigning against the pension injustice for 1950s women for six years. From April 2016 they changed the wait time from 2 months from month of birth to 4 months per month of birth. 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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. How long is this Going on for ????! They are now waiting to see what it will decide. PHSO report is a joke the only way we will get any compensation is with a change of Government roll on for hopefully an early general election before any more of us die, You seem to have lost your support for Waspis women, why ? I feel that 50s women were trodden all over, I for one have been following this since this campaign started, I think we have been treated disrespectful. Upholding challenges, the courts have ruled that, even though the ombudsmen have been given a special role by Parliament, very a high standard of reasoning and fairness is required (e.g. Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey has now pledged his backing for the Waspi womens campaign for fair and fast compensation on behalf of 3.8 million women. Find out by adding your postcode or, PIP: You could get up to 608 per month if you have sight conditions, Savings: Britons urged to give cash a boost as many lose money', Pension: Boris Johnson urged to act as women face 'motherhood penalty'. As some of us find it hard working due to bad health and we cant get our pension early .woman have been treated like 2nd rate people as usual Under the Pension Act of 1995, and subsequently the Pension Act of 2011, many women saw their state pension age rise to a higher age than they had previously expected. The Secretary of State responsible for the DWP is likely to do so, for example. They call themselves Waspi women, which stands for Women Against State Pension Injustice, and refuse to give up the fight. Labour will today pledge 57billion to women who were denied state pensions. In 1995, the government introduced a gradual increase of the State Pension Age from 60 to 65 for women but did not notify them, Simpson said. The trackers were regarded as non-performing, even though the borrowers involved . For higher wages. WASPI 18 campaign leaders have called for the. Mishandling of an asylum application left the person affected without access to public funds or associated benefits for an extended period causing financial worries and distress. Check out the website PHSO the true story. We will be challenging a public authority with much greater resources than any of us have individually. It is something that gnaws at me every single day and with my health as it is and the injustice of it all, it makes me feel very suicidal at times, but I am too much of a coward to do it. If it is not, the decision will be quashed (overturned so it has no effect) and must then be remade with the Courts judgement in mind. 24th February 2023. It said 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. After all, it was the Government that raided our pension pots and they should repay it without delay, obfuscation or maladministration. Today around half of lady pensioners rely solely on the state pension in retirement. Number of votes: 23 | Number of comments: 72. Lets hear a response from Angela Madden, Chair #WaSpi herself. We have put our trust in him. That is because the Ombudsman's Stage 1 report conclusion was that letters should have. We will ultimately decide though where a complaint sits within the scale and what level And other illnesses but I really need help with this one it is a .medical conditions but I cant even afford to pay if I had my pension from60 I could have saved it up .ad you get old the government do not care zandra wenzel, Its about time this matter for us waspi women was sorted out once and for all so many of us women including myself have had to use our savings to survive and we are now wanting the government to address this situation and give us women the compensation we all deserve we have struggled but the government just dont care enough to end this once and for all there are women who have died waiting how much longer do we have to suffer. Once those papers reach the Ombudsman, he has three weeks to respond with a preliminary defence. I think you must be going deaf David because nobody else heard that!! They are fighting a losing case with any colour of Government just like the 500,000 Frozen UK pensioners who are fighting for parity with the current rates of UK State Pensions. Its gone on too now we want compensation for what this government have done to 1950s and 60s women 7590. It would be nice to be compensated, but in all honestly until I see the compensation in my bank account ,I wont believe it.. Heres an earlier Waspi/WaSpi Board dispute which apparently preceded the loss of legal representation by Bindmans for the Maladministration case: https://www.ftadviser.com/state-pension/2018/03/15/waspi-leadership-spat-holds-up-legal-case/. Members of the public can go to court to watch the hearing and it may be possible to set up a live stream (we will ask the Court for this). This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. Tories in 1995, Labour with 2007 pension act, and Lib Dems that brought both laws into existence, to raise pension ages on women from 60 to 66, 67 and 68 today, are the governments who stole our state pension. Boost for WASPI state pension campaign as investigation moves into next stage Almost 4million women have lost up to six years of their state pension due to DWP changes, but now an Ombudsman. You can unsubscribe at any time. There has to be injustice too. Grey Swans campaign is not to any currently elected political type, but is seeking moral support, please, for creation of our new Over 50s (saves all ages) party, that alone offers: Pension age 60 It is then for the government to decide whether to accept the recommendations. Selling victims short without their consent is WaSpis modus operandi. WASPI has never been a campaign for poor pensioners unable to afford to heat and eat, never having campaigned against womens pension age rise.