Compensation for WASPI women owed 'up to £2950' missing from Labour plans

WASPI campaigners expressed their frustration after facing another hurdle in their fight to secure pension payouts from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Voicing their increasing concern due to time constraints, the group stated, "time is not on our side" following the recent setback in their campaign for justice.

Despite hopes that a new Labour government would bring positive changes, WASPI pensioners have been informed that they might not receive compensation. An eye-watering £47 billion been committed towards 12 different redress programs to amend state errors, including those related to the Horizon and Post Office fiasco, as well as the infected blood tragedy, but women born in the 1950s affected by a change in the state pension age have been left out once again.

Expressing their dissatisfaction with the lack of action to GB News, a WASPI campaign spokesperson said, "Campaigners were vindicated earlier this year when a landmark Parliamentary Ombudsman report ordered ministers to apologise and urgently pay compensation."

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Compensation packages of up to £10,000 have been proposed to address the historic financial inequality, where 3.6 million women born in the 1950s who were not properly notified of changes to the state pension age. This issue is thought to affect around 400,000 women in the North West.

Campaigners on state pension inequality had been looking forward to a change in their chances at compensation with Labour at the helm, but have been left out of the £47 billion expected to be spent on the victims of other scandals. The WASPI spokesperson noted: "with the previous Government kicking a decision on