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The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign has sent a ‘letter before action’ to the Department for Work and Pensions.
Waspi campaigners have threatened the government with legal action unless it reconsiders the decision to reject compensation for millions of women affected by changes to the state pension age.
A watchdog recommended that compensation be paid to women born in the 1950s whose state pension age was raised to be equal with men, but Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said taxpayers can not afford what could be a £10.5 billion package.
The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign has sent a “letter before action” to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), warning of High Court proceedings if the issue is not resolved.
Angela Madden, chairwoman of the group, said members will not allow the DWP’s “gaslighting” of Waspi women to go “unchallenged.”
Waspi campaigners says the government’s reasons for rejecting the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report, which found that the women should be paid up to £2,950 each, are “legally wrong.”
The group, which has launched a £75,000 Crowdjustice campaign to fund legal action,…
