After axing winter fuel payments and leaving farming grandparents unable to pass on their land, now the Government has said WASPI women won’t get compensation.
Sir Keir’s Labour have seemingly got it in for the nation’s elderly (Image: PA )
Pensioners are the people in this country who have worked all their lives putting money into the national coffers and helping build the Britain we live in today.
But as another blow is announced for elderly people from the Government today, with the news that so-called WASPI women affected by changes to the state pension age will not receive compensation
Evidence it could be argued has been clear within the first five months of Sir Keir Starmer‘s time in office, during which time winter fuel payments have been axed and elderly farmers have been hit with inheritance tax meaning they can’t pass on the land they’ve worked on all their lives.
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Women affected by changes to the state pension age will not receive compensation, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has announced.
Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) have advocated for support for women who were born in the 1950s and say they did not get adequate warnings about changes to the state pension.
“The Government does not believe paying a flat rate to all women at a cost of up to £10.5 billion would be fair or proportionate to taxpayers,” Ms Kendall told the Commons.
But the decision has sparked anger from WASPI who have called the move “bizarre”.
The PM and Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall schmoozing with pensioners before the election (Image: PA )
Angela Madden, chairwoman of Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) said: “The Government has today made an unprecedented political choice to ignore the clear recommendations of an independent watchdog which ordered ministers urgently to compensate waspi women nine months ago.
“This is a bizarre and totally unjustified move which will leave everyone asking what the point of an ombudsman is if ministers can simply ignore their decisions. It feels like a decision that would make the likes of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump blush.
“The idea that an ‘action plan’ to avoid such mistakes in future should be the result of a six-year ombudsman’s investigation is an insult both to the women and to the PHSO process.
“An overwhelming majority of MPs back waspi’s calls for fair compensation and all options remain on the table. Parliament must now seek an alternative mechanism to force this issue on to the order paper so justice can be done.”
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