WASPI women issue 'extremely hard' update over DWP payouts worth £2,950

WASPI women affected by the historic injustice of underpaid state pensions are calling for the new Labour Party government to set aside cash for them in the Budget. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been told by an Ombudsman to give payouts of up to £2950.

Mary Jones, from Northamptonshire Waspi, said thousands of women in the county were among those affected by government decisions to raise the pension age from 60 to 65 in 1995 and later to 66 in 2012. Ms Jones said she "sincerely hopes" that some "long-awaited compensation" had been set aside by Chancellor Rachel Reeves for those affected.

Around 40 women from Northamptonshire are heading to Westminster this morning to join a Waspi protest ahead of the Budget being delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves this afternoon. Ms Jones added: "I have lost most of my private pensions as I had to draw on them since the age of 60.

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"With the cost of everything rising, budgeting has been extremely hard." WASPI women ave called on the Government to compensate them and stop “kicking the can down the road” after Ms Reeves warned that “tough decisions” will be needed in the Budget to fix the £22bn black hole in the UK’s public finances.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused of failing to adequately inform Waspi women, born between 6 April, 1950 and 5 April, 1960, that their state pension age would rise from 60 to 65. A Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson previously stated that they would "listen respectfully" to the concerns of the women involved and "take on board any lessons learnt".

The campaigners told i they are “with bated breath waiting for the Government” to announce measures to compensate them in the Budget next week, but are “apprehensive that there will be nothing."