Sir Keir Starmer tells Waspi women there will be pension update ‘in near future’

Waspi women could perceive an update astir authorities pension compensation “in the not excessively distant future”, the Prime Minister has said.

Sir Keir Starmer has told reporters that the Secretary of State astatine the Department for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall volition marque a connection “on this successful the not excessively distant future”.

Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) person advocated for enactment for women who were calved successful the 1950s and accidental they did not get capable warnings astir changes to the authorities pension.

Asked by reporters connected the travel to the G20 acme successful Brazil wherefore compensation was taking truthful long, the Prime Minister said: “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 told 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.

“We anticipation to beryllium capable to update the House successful the coming weeks.”

A study by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) recovered that affected women should person had astatine slightest 28 months’ much idiosyncratic announcement of the changes by the Department for Work and Pensions.

It besides said that for women who were not alert of the changes, the accidental that further announcement would person fixed them to set their status plans was mislaid owed to delay.

The PHSO further suggested that compensation astatine level four, ranging betwixt £1,000 and £2,950, could beryllium due for each of those affected.