It is well known that it was 3.8 million 50sWomen that was affected by SPA increases so for her to mention 6 million she included those who were born in the 60s? And the particular type of injustice the Ombudsman identifies is what forms the basis for his recommendations on remedies, including any compensation. Our year was the most unfair, I dont know how this was ever allowed to go through. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. In its submission to the Ombudsman, the Women All-Party Parliamentary Group suggested they get at least 10,000. So sorry to hear of your health problems. The main point I take from your useful article is that the Ombudsman is unlikely to recommend anything like the compensation many are expecting to receive. 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Pension 60 men and women (1960s born now turning 60) Logical thinking is out of their range? Q6: How strong is the case and what will happen if enough money is not raised to take it forward?? Lastly, show some respect for David Hencke, a Veteran Lobby Correspondent and Award Winning Journalist. This includes circumstances where the individual may be affected permanently, or where recovery is likely to take several years, and cases involving an avoidable death. Waspi claims that while the 1995 Conservative government's Pension Act included plans to increase the women's state pension age to 65 - the same as men's - the changes were implemented . None of these things is true. 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. Once it is no longer provisional it will be published. @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. State pension age is set to rise to 68 - when will you retire? Worse she disclosed that Waspi had tried to meet government ministers to press their case but ministers would not even see them. 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. 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. What the PHSO says completely contradict themselves between one sentence and the next. That is because the Ombudsman's Stage 1 report conclusion was that letters should have. 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. 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. As promised, we are now in a position to share our legal arguments about where the Ombudsman has gone wrong in deciding whether WASPI women have suffered injustice. Tories, no chance! The Coalition Government legislated in the Pensions Act 2011 to accelerate the latter part of this timetable, starting in April 2016 when women's SPA was 63 so that it reached 65 in November 2018, at which point it started to rise to 66 by October 2020. The Stage 2 report with its errors will be the basis on which the Ombudsman decides what remedies to recommend, including any compensation. I try to accept we will never get anywhere with compensation, but it has made me a very bitter and angry person and it is something I will never get over. I am not eligible for Carers allowance as I am still working. These findings will be applied to many other women if they stand unchallenged. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. Campaigners refuse to put a figure on how much compensation they want, but previous calculations suggest that if they do get anything, it might be substantial. If the Court agrees with us and our legal team that the Ombudsman has made errors, his decisions on the injustice WASPI women suffered will have to be made again, lawfully. It was Lib Dems Pension Minister between 2010 and 2015 who could have stopped both the Tory and Labour pension age rise laws, but chose to bring them all into law at warp speed, directly causing the misery and early death of us 1950s ladies. If we win, the Ombudsman will have to reconsider his second report and re-write it, properly identify the injustices that the DWP's maladministration has caused and make recommendations for compensation on a proper basis. Here is the two PHSO reports for anyone who wishes to see them. Reports by journalists never contain a full report normally articles range between 500-700 words and include selective quotes. Thank you David for finally admitting that you got the 6m wrong and that it should have been 3.6m women. giving reasons that are rational based on the evidence and logical; and. Please do let others know about the case and ask if they can do what they can to support it. You can unsubscribe at any time. Update from the WASPI Campaign on news from the Parliamentary and Health Service DWP Mass action complaint & letter templates. Simpson said they are are not giving up. Legal action of this kind is not cheap - we need to protect ourselves against the risk of having to pay the Ombudsman's costs as well as paying our own lawyers. Pingback: Exclusive: Betrayal Parliamentary Ombudsman dumps on 3.6 million 50s born women | Westminster Confidential, I was born in 19 Fifty three I have suffered My Health I have rheumatoid Also I have a stoma bag I have to take cancer drug everyday as I have cancer I have to take war friend because of blood clots I have to take Emerald and lot of this has caused me Distress as I cannot afford anyone to come in and help me and my husband Is ill as well If I would have received My pension when I was 60 I could have done more To help pay for someone to come in and look after me I think its disgusting that I work from the Age of 14 and I have lost 4 years and 2 months All I want Is compensation For what I have lost. One year ago this month, Waspi women were celebrating a ruling by the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman. The main targets are the stark inconsistencies between the Ombudsmans Stage 1 report - which rightly found maladministration by the DWP on a massive scale and the Stage 2 report, which finds that maladministration led to no injustice at all in relation to lost opportunities or direct financial losses in any of the cases examined. 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. Our campaign is determined to see this through to the bitter end and obtain justice via fair and fast compensation.. There is no appeal against an Ombudsman decision. 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. More info. 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). The meeting began with a statement from Angela Madden but it was difficult to hear her clearly at the back of the room because of the acoustics and early on the organisers asked her to speak up. We and the barristers working on the case are preparing the detailed legal arguments summarised here (and in more detail in our letter here along) with witness statements and a large bundle of documents for the Court. A north-east MSP has said it is "appalling but sadly not surprising" more than 220,000 women in the UK will have died waiting for pension compensation by the end of this year. I dont know if mine got through to the Ombudsman, although I sent all 4 legal template letters. Far too long we have waited for Justice. 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. 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. This error also matters. The whole thing is flawed. sole compensation to 1960s ladies (turning 60 since 2020) Although were not qualified to give pensions or benefits advice, we think the link below may be helpful for people who are not sure about their benefit entitlement: WASPI - Women Against State Pension Inequality Ltd (Company Number 10380633), WASPI - Women Against State Pension Inequality Ltd, WASPI Women Against State Pension Inequality, Maladministration Update Letters Mar 2020, Draft Motion for District and County Councils, Martin Lewis encourages WASPI to keep up the fight, Written Question From Julian Lewis MP 14 December 2021, Evidence Submitted To Parliamentary Committees, Write to your MP after the Ombudsmans finding of maladministration. While we have strikes left right and centre Judicial review is a vital part of the UKs unwritten constitution because it allows the High Court and appeal courts to make sure all other public bodies (including some lower courts) are: The Ombudsman and his local government equivalents have been challenged through judicial review in the past. obfuscate, delay, make up his own rules on standards, minimise, shift the blame, and then if we are very lucky offer a few crumbs in the hundreds of to a minority and then DWP will make it as difficult as possible to apply for. I was contracted out for 1 year, am receiving 180.96 per week because of a deduction for COPE. To reach this remarkable conclusion and work out when they should have received their letters, the Ombudsman, But this approach makes no sense. WASPI women are referred to reports of other investigations so they can see recommendations made in other cases and the amount awarded., which averages out at around 2,000 and very rarely meets. We believe he has been and that he must think again about the injustices we have experienced. I think you must be going deaf David because nobody else heard that!! Q4: Surely the Ombudsman accepts the WASPI women suffered injustice? Discrimination by age needs to be taken to High Court, by the retired sections of trade unions and Age UK and National Pensioners Convention. The papers for our judicial review case against the Ombudsman were filed yesterday. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. If look at the groups of people you can calculate the lifetime discrimination by facts. And so much more. I have once again called on the UK Government to deliver fair and fast compensation to the WASPI Women. Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) are a voluntary campaign group campaigning for women in the UK negatively affected by the failure of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to adequately communicate the change to their State Pension age. They have ended up relying on savings to get them through, and now have nothing to fall back on amid rising costs, for essentials such as energy, food, fuel and rent. Please donate to Westminster Confidential to allow me to continue my forensic journalism, please donate to Westminster Confidential, Your email address will not be published. That would tell any logical thinking person there is something untoward going on within this group. The there is no money left lie is just that. Q5: What happens if the case is not taken? The Admin of Modern Day Suffragettes permitted members to make up their own mind in a poll on their Facebook page and showed a lot of moral support. Once our judicial review has the funding it needs, we will be ready to go. We are happy to set the record straight. pledged of 100,000 target from 5,524 pledges, NEVER GIVE UP fighting for your rights . I may be barking up the wrong tree but its my thinking. The Judge will then give her or his decision a few weeks later. But what happens once we have raised the funds we need? 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. I was born in 1954 so had to wait 6 yrs to get my pension. In February, the PHSO called for the DWP to submit more evidence related to the communication of state pension changes, which the ombudsman needed in order for the second stage of the investigation to continue.. Now we must seek it from the High Court. As to the numbers that Angela Madden quoted, it sounds like you have simply misheard her or noted it wrongly. They most certainly do NOT speak 4 the vast majority of #50sWomen (including the families of those now sadly deceased) who are owed the return in full of every single penny of our STOLEN #StatePension all the way #BackTo60 as wed originally AGREED! WEBSITE The Ombudsman is generally a careful decision-maker and has a special role. Many women born in the 1950s have been scraping by on minimal income, while waiting to receive their delayed State Pension. 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. These payments will now be made automatically following a Government review - although some women, depending on their circumstances, will still need to claim. In other words, we disagree profoundly with the Ombudsman about the impact the DWP's maladministration has had on WASPI women. There was and remains no pension pot. WASPI held a fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Liverpool this week. Waspi women have lost none of their sting. How long is this Going on for ????! I am 55 this year. The Women Against State Pension Injustice (Waspi) campaign group has been recruiting senior political figures to support their campaign. Why does this matter? DON'T MISSSavings: Britons urged to give cash a boost as many lose money'[EXCLUSIVE]Pension: Boris Johnson urged to act as women face 'motherhood penalty'[INTERVIEW]Nationwide offers Britons a 1million prize draw - could you win? With issues with my health, I had to stop working a few years ago. The aim of the WASPI Campaign is: WASPI calls on the Government to agree fair and fast compensation for all women affected by the lack of notice regarding the State Pension age increases (1995 and 2011 Acts). Iam working on this as an individual as I have 20 years of evidence but dont have any money to take a legal case. Norfolk-based Debbie de Spon from WASPI - Women Against State Pension Inequality, said the campaign group warmly welcomed the submission by the APPG. There is no complaint about pension age rise. This is where the Ombudsman will consider the DWPs complaint handling process.
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