Like you I am in poor health with osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, thyroid disorder, glaucoma, asthma, vitiligo and in pain every single day. After decades of paying into the system, it betrayed us beyond belief. The governments of Harold Wilson (1960s and early 1970s) built on Attlees foundations and our Over 50s partys policies are only what the state pension would have reached if Wilsons betterments of 1974 and 1975 had remained til today. Now the day of reckoning is edging closer. Labour will today pledge 57billion to women who were denied state pensions. They are not campaigning for 6m women born in the 50s and 60s. This bitterness towards other campaign groups is simply playing into the Governments hands David. Please share this page and donate whatever you can; no sum is too small! 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. WASPI and #backto60 should unite to lobby both the main parties in UK to recognise that many 50s women will be those suffering from fuel poverty and also the injustice of their treatment in the first place and by governments putting bankers before pensioners. I am a registered nurse and I had to stop work in 2019 due to ill health and have live off small pittance from DWP its another 2 years I have to wait to get my pension. First of all the PHSOs scale of Injustice has 6 levels Level 6 which is what the APPG support allows a payment of 10,000 or more. According to Waspi, the ONS data reveals that men aged between 65 and 74 have 182,700 in private pension savings while women of the same age have just 25,000 saved up. The third and final stage will be a recommendation to Parliament, with MPs having the final say. 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. That means we have to issue the claim very soon. Our simple, pragmatic ask is that ministers open a dialogue with us about a one-off compensation payment to make up for the financial loss and emotional trauma caused to women . GREY SWANS ONLY WAY TO GET 35,000 COMPENSATION and tapered compensation to 1960s ladies. Thank you .. . Some had to sell or re-mortgage their homes, others had to continue working despite ill health, and others had to abandon commitments they had made to their families to provide care for grandchildren or elderly relatives.. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. The economy has tanked and ALL victims will need more than ever every penny owing to them to encounter the horrors to come. Lastly, show some respect for David Hencke, a Veteran Lobby Correspondent and Award Winning Journalist. The . The Ombudsman is to examine the complaints brought to it, regarding communication of changes to the women's state pension age, as well as related issues. Dont let these lousy stinking thieving rats ruin whatever time we have left. It all sounds great ,I have lived through (the pound in your pocket),(tightening our belts) (jam tomorrow ) (all in it togetherha ha) the grey suites will not allow it .they got a big shock when we voted BREXIT.they will not allow such a thing again (as a truck driver I worked more hours under the common market and eu ,driving about and talking to people I saw the 08 crash coming and the vote no..they told the waspi women there was no money,then along comes covid,Ukraine (plenty for war mongering and then the icing on the cake 1000 illegals across the channel that they can not stop (really ? ) And of course, although we believe we have a strong case, the outcome is not certain. Money is not everything they say, but it is when you havent got any. 4 Our guidance on financial remedy. For 2022/23 these minimums are: - For employees: 123 a week, 533 a month, 6,396 a year. 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. The Ombudsman finalised the Stage 2 report on 8 December last year. There was and remains no pension pot. 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. The DWP failed to carry out a proper Equality Impact Assessment on its policy implementation of 1995 pension act and subsequent laws this breaches the Public Sector Equality Duty part of the Equality Act. Your share on Facebook could raise 26 for the case. We will be publishing our legal arguments soon, but for now we want to share the introductory words from the witness statement WASPIs Chair and Director of Finance, Angela Madden, has submitted to the Court. The government has robbed those still alive & those who have died they have illegally stolen money from their families too. People of State Pension age may be due extra 201 each week from April,Successful new claims for Pension Credit may also qualify for the 900 cost of living payment. We know how much DWP maladministration has cost us and now the @PHSOmbudsman gets it wrong too! If youre going to leak parts of the report, please be accurate about it. Some women were given only one year's notice of a six-year delay to their retirement. With regards to the ongoing points raised by women affected, a DWP spokesperson commented to Express.co.uk on the matter. Something went wrong, please try again later. We have to remember that the Department of Work and Pensions are only employed by the politicians and did not increase pension age, which they cannot do. Courage Ladies. I was unable to work after fracturing my back in 2016 and needed that extra money they stole from me to help make alterations to our house, installing a WC on the ground floor and a shower in the bathroom which was paid from the money I receivef from a small pension I cashed in. In any event, had #WaSpi nothing to hide, they would respond themselves. Its terrible how we have been treated. Women who had originally planned to retire at 60, for example, would have been available for caregiving roles within their families, both for children and elderly relatives. I said that you obviously misheard 3.6m as 6m and despite others telling you about your mistake you have refused to see that you were wrong and correct it. The pandemic has killed off pensioners at the rate of 1bn less paid out in state pension going on into the future. However, WASPI will not be able to proceed with the challenge if the fighting fund it is raising is not sufficient: the Ombudsman will be entitled to recover his legal costs if the case fails; WASPI needs enough funds to cover that risk. As long as enough money is raised, we will issue the claim next week and start the judicial review. There is no appeal against an Ombudsman decision. "A compensation award of the level sought by Waspi would cost billions," she said, adding it would have to be funded by additional government borrowing, higher taxes or diverting money away. She said 3.6m women and not 6m women. Only Jeremy Corbyn as leader offered us 31,100 compensation, which was sabotaged by the present Labour leader Starmer, and his fellow saboteurs against Labour winning 2019 general election. I dont know if mine got through to the Ombudsman, although I sent all 4 legal template letters. As to letting Angela Madden and the Waspi board speak for themselves I very much hope they dont join in your mud slinging. They know full well they high jacked our pensions. And so much more at www dot over50sparty dot org dot uk The Ombudsman will, in this instance, use what is known as the Severity of Injustice scale to determine the six levels of injustice a complaint may fall into. It seems to me that Angela Madden silence on these reports speak volumes? This report. Your email address will not be published. And to social medicine (in our case NHS). has soared for women aged in our 50s and 60s since 2011, The Liberal Democrats say Waspi women should get 15,000 each. If they are not going to offer compensation perhaps they could just give us Co-op funeral vouchers. 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. The Secretary of State responsible for the DWP is likely to do so, for example. The Stage 2 report has not even been published. If the Ombudsman says the maladministration did lead to injustice, their hopes of a financial settlement will rise sharply. It is very humbling for us to know that even when people have so little to spare, they still believe so strongly in our case that they want to donate and we are hugely grateful to them. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. We need your support. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. 448.12 per week state pension for all pensioners, old and new, men and women the same. She was much stronger on the plight of cold pensioners failing to keep warm during the present cost of living crisis and gave some advice on how campaigners could raise issues. State pension age is set to rise to 68 - when will you retire? 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. A former pensions minister has warned the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign (WASPI) that they are likely to receive "tiny bits of compensation" and not the "thousands and thousands" they may be expecting once the Parliamentary Ombudsman has released its final report. countries. And she made no reference to WASPIs investigation into the alleged decision of the DWPs Independent Case Examiner to destroy 2500 of the letters from complainants about their pension delay. 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. Why dont you simply get on with your own campaign and leave Waspi to get on with theirs? The only way we can challenge the Ombudsman's decision is by a Judicial Review. My name is Zandra Wenzel I lost 4 anda half years pension and on top of that.i have a illnesses that the what pay for I have to find 450 for treatment to help me I have cancer. MORE than 15,000 Pembrokeshire and Carmarthen West 1950s women campaigners who have been hit by changes to state pension have been boosted by a cross-party parliamentary group's compensation call. Simpson said that some women were written to in 2009, some 14 years after the first change, but letters were then stopped until 2012. 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). It is then for the government to decide whether to accept the recommendations. Here, our solicitors at Bindmans LLP take a break from preparing WASPIs judicial review against the Ombudsman to answer ten key questions about the case. I have once again called on the UK Government to deliver fair and fast compensation to the WASPI Women. The DWP ultimately started its direct mailing campaign to inform them in April 2009, but should have started much sooner. My understanding at the beginning was that she was talking about six million women which would cover those born in the 1950s and 1960s. Media statements from government also imply that the campaign group WASPI are challenging the legality of changes to the State Pension Age. We can only consider whether it is more likely than not failings in DWPs communication of those changes had the financial consequences women claim.. . Several comments on this thread about the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. Saturday, 4th March 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. Whilst the focus of the Stage 2 report is the six test case complainants, the Ombudsman's findings effectively apply to everyone whose circumstances are similar. 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