Huge DWP WASPI update with massive payout for hundreds of thousands of State Pensioners

The PM confirms that the DWP Secretary, Liz Kendall, is expected to marque a connection connected the WASPI compensation successful the "not excessively distant future"

The Prime Minister has hinted that an update regarding authorities pension compensation for Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women could beryllium connected the skyline "in the not excessively distant future". Sir Keir Starmer informed journalists that Liz Kendall, the Secretary of State astatine the Department for Work and Pensions, volition soon marque a connection connected this matter.

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) run supports women calved successful the 1950s who assertion they were inadequately warned astir changes to the authorities pension. When questioned by reporters during his travel to the G20 acme successful Brazil astir the hold successful compensation, the Prime Minister responded: "The DWP caput volition beryllium making a connection connected this successful the not excessively distant future. He added: "Obviously, it's a precise superior report, and the effect volition beryllium acceptable retired by the DWP Secretary."

Earlier this month, pensions curate Emma Reynolds told the Commons that the Government hoped "to beryllium capable to update the House successful the coming weeks". She explained to MPs: "The ombudsman took six years to look astatine what are a scope of analyzable cases, and we are looking astatine the complexity of those cases. I was the archetypal curate successful six years to conscionable with representatives of the Waspi campaign."

A study by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) concluded that affected women should person received astatine slightest 28 months' much idiosyncratic announcement of the changes by the Department for Work and Pensions. The study besides stated that for women who were unaware of the changes it meant that the accidental for women to set their status plans were lost. The PHSO suggested that compensation astatine level four, ranging betwixt £1,000 and £2,950, could beryllium suitable for each of those affected. Reacting to the news, Martin Lewis posted connected X: "Starmer besides told traveling hacks there'll beryllium a connection connected the plight of "WASPI women" successful the "not excessively distant future. It's 8 months since an ombudsman recommended that immoderate get compensation."