MP RENEWS CALL FOR JUSTICE FOR 1950S WOMEN 

Salford & Eccles MP Rebecca Long-Bailey has confirmed her support for justice for the 5,000 1950s-born women in her constituency by signing the Women Against State Pension Injustice (WASPI) Campaign 'pledge'. 

It is almost a year since the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions was guilty of maladministration in failing to give proper notice to 3.8 million women born in the 1950s whose State Pension Age was subjected to a series of changes.  

Since then the Ombudsman has been investigating whether this maladministration resulted in injustice - and if so, how the women involved should be compensated.  

Judith Robertson, Co-ordinator of Salford and Eccles WASPI, said:

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"Rebecca has been a consistent WASPI supporter. We are delighted that she has signed the pledge to highlight our campaign for fair and fast compensation. 

"The lack of notice had disastrous results. Women found that their plans for retirement at 60 were suddenly overturned without warning. 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.  All were deprived without proper notice of the pension which they had expected to receive at 60. 

"We are asking for justice in the form of fair and fast compensation before more 1950s women die - and we are not going away!" 

 

Rebecca Long Bailey, said:

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"It is shameful that we are seeing rising pensioner poverty nationally, and how our women born in the 1950s have been impacted by the unfair changes to State Pension Age has almost certainly been a huge factor in that.

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found maladministration by the Department of Work and Pensions, (DWP) regarding the lack of notice 1950s women received yet the Government continues to deny these women the justice they deserve. We need to see urgent Government action to end this injustice." 

 

To contact Salford and Eccles WASPI   

Email waspisalfordandeccles@hotmail.com 

Facebook; WASPI Salford and Eccles Supporters Group 

Photo: Judith Robertson, Co-ordinator of Salford & Eccles WASPI with MP Rebecca Long-Bailey who has pledged her support for the WASPI Campaign for fair and fast compensation.