Waspi campaigners have threatened the Government with legal action unless it reconsiders the decision to reject compensation for millions of women affected by changes to the state pension age.
A watchdog recommended that compensation be paid to women born in the 1950s whose state pension age was raised to be equal with men, but Sir Keir Starmer said taxpayers can not afford what could be a £10.5 billion package.
The Government previously highlighted research indicating that, by 2006, 90% of 1950s-born women knew about state pension age changes.
“However, evidence showed only one in four people remember reading and receiving letters that they weren’t expecting and that by 2006 90% of 1950s-born women knew that the state pension age was changing.
Waspi campaigners says the Government’s reasons for rejecting the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) report, which found that the women should be paid up to £2,950 each, are “legally wrong”.
