We need to raise at least 100,000 right now to get our case into court and moving forward. In June 2021 the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman concluded that errors at DWP amounted to maladministration. The Pensions Act 1995 provided for the State Pension age (SPA) for women to increase from 60 to 65 over the period April 2010 to 2020. The WASPI campaign is calling for an immediate one-off compensation payment of between 11,666 and 20,000, with the most going to women who were given the shortest notice of the longest . 10,000 is nowhere near what has been stolen from me. Why dont you simply get on with your own campaign and leave Waspi to get on with theirs? There will be further, significant funds required as we move through the legal process, especially if we need to go to appeal. She said 3.6m women which covers April 1960 to April 1960. Our year was the most unfair, I dont know how this was ever allowed to go through. The DWP ultimately started its direct mailing campaign to inform them in April 2009, but should have started much sooner. In its submission to the Ombudsman, the Women All-Party Parliamentary Group suggested they get at least 10,000. Yes. If it is not, the decision will be quashed (overturned so it has no effect) and must then be remade with the Courts judgement in mind. A woman getting the basic old pension gets 145.15 per week and top up of pension credit of 37.45 per week so receives a total of 182.60 per week. www dot over50sparty dot org dot uk. I will change the reference to 10,000 .I checked my notes of the meeting which records thats Angela mentioned six million people not three million in her introduction when she talked about fair compensation in a one off payment. Q6: How strong is the case and what will happen if enough money is not raised to take it forward?? Sadly some folk never fail to disappoint regardless of given facts! If so, we urge you to contribute. The person affected died of sepsis due to a failure of a hospital to carry out appropriate and thorough investigations of their symptoms. The Ombudsman is generally a careful decision-maker and has a special role. Some of us were already 58 when the DWP pulled the rug from under us by letting us know far too late that we could not retire and draw a pension at 60 but must instead wait until 66. We have put our trust in him. . See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. 35,000 compensation to 1950s ladies. Campaigners refused to say how much they expect to get but calculate the average women born in the 1950s lost 50,000 in State Pension after the retirement age was increased from 60 to 66. What the PHSO says completely contradict themselves between one sentence and the next. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Its terrible how we have been treated. In other words, the outcome of this case is likely to affect hundreds of thousands of 1950s women quite possibly most of them. Learn how your comment data is processed. However, the DWP did not challenge the Ombudsmans conclusions that its actions and failures were maladministrative in the Ombudsmans Stage 1 report. BackTo60 is a direct campaign to government of bringing the international law of CEDAW treaty of the rights of women and girls into UK domestic law and the temporary special measure of compensation to the 1950s ladies. There are around 3.8 million women affected by the change. Were two thirds of the way to our target and we cant thank you enough for your pledges and thesupport that has got us to this point. We cannot be certain about the numbers or the amounts and although the government normally follows Ombudsman recommendations, there is no right to compensation. The grey suits now hate the Tories and are talking up Labour (latter greatest enemy to pensioners since 1978 with the same enemies in the party, against Attlee and Wilson). We want a country where families come first, in all of their wonderful diversity, and where all people are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve, regardless of their background. Saturday, 4th March 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. All said they had suffered financial losses because of this as well as loss of the opportunity to make different choices, stress, anguish and upset. For David Hencke to do a blog article for me, to help us all. they are not children. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. pension age 60 for 1960s ladies (as have pension age 67) onwards The organisation is campaigning to end womens state pension equality and wants women born in the 1950s s to be compensated for them failure of the government to properly inform them of the effects of the six year delay from 60 to 66 in raising their pension age. And so much more. It said the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should have written individual letters to affected women 28 months before it finally sent them out, which it called maladministration. Because it was in the kitty it was there and whoever used it (STOLE) therefore should be brought to JUSTICE and we all should see documents relating to this spending. This error also matters. We hope the judicial review will mean that happens, either because the Ombudsman decides that he should reconsider during the life of this case, or because the Court decides that he must. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. If WASPI women cannot establish either direct financial loss or loss of opportunities that amounted to injustice, then their remedies for the maladministration the Ombudsman has identified, including compensation, could be very limited indeed. Iam working on this as an individual as I have 20 years of evidence but dont have any money to take a legal case. That is because the Ombudsman's Stage 1 report conclusion was that letters should have. The latest findings reaffirm what the WASPI campaigners, which represents many of the 3.8 million affected - including 5,600 women across the Jarrow constituency - have been calling for since the. Comes amid impacts of sudden stratospheric warming over North Pole, Met Office moves snow timeline for Gloucestershire - it's coming a day earlier, Rural parts of the county could see the white stuff with sleet affecting other areas, Met Office issues 48-hour snow and ice 'disruptive' weather warning for UK, Arctic airmass to bring snow showers to northern parts of UK on Monday and Tuesday. Find out by adding your postcode or visit InYourArea. I wasnt aware I said you needed permission to report. We should be able to publish details of the legal arguments our lawyers have put to the Ombudsman shortly, but in summary: We believe the Ombudsman's mistaken approach to injustice could mean many women - perhaps hundreds of thousands - receiving less compensation than they otherwise would. I think the government have been grossly unfair to the waspi women .loads have died saving the government money .we women of the 1950s paid every penny for the state pension to retire at 60 yes. Previously, the state pension age was set at 60 for women and 65 for men, but this underwent a process of equalisation to ensure gender equality and fairness. 24th February 2023. When a brief interlude of a different kind of Labour leader came into being, he was sabotaged by his own party, when offering pension age 60 to men in his 1983 election manifesto, and living state pension to men and women the same. Photo: Julien Behal/PA BANKS sold thousands of tracker mortgages to vulture funds - despite having to admit they overcharged on them. I was born in 1954 so had to wait 6 yrs to get my pension. There is no complaint about pension age rise. If you feel that ALL 50s women should be able to see it then you should have leaked the full report so that everyone can read, and hopefully understand, all of it themselves. If maladministration is detected, which is not a certainty, then the second stage determines whether this led to an injustice for the complainant. Grey Swans campaign is not to any currently elected political type, but is seeking moral support, please, for creation of our new Over 50s (saves all ages) party, that alone offers: Pension age 60 Around 3.8. Helpline: 0808 802 2000 (open 09.00 - 17.00 Monday-Friday) We are now hopeful that the Ombudsman will recommend compensation for the injustice we have suffered., This needs to be fair and fast, she added. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Only politicians can bring about law. What is our action against the Ombudsman trying to achieve? In these cases recovery is likely to take a significant amount of time. In my case born 1953, started receiving my pension in Nov 2018. Waspi women refuse to accept these arguments and felt vindicated by the Ombudsmans ruling. That would tell any logical thinking person there is something untoward going on within this group. We are really grateful for your support. The finding brings the prospect of compensation closer for thousands of women born in the 1950s who have long been furious about the issue. One year ago this month, Waspi women were celebrating a ruling by the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman. Dear Jimmy Sturdy, The Waspi report from the Ombudsman notes that DWP took 14 years to tell people about state pension age changes after the 1995 Act, compared with less than 1 year after the 2011 Act. As promised, we are now in a position to share our legal arguments about where the Ombudsman has gone wrong in deciding whether WASPI women have suffered injustice. What we have now is your opinion of what may happen rather than the complete story. colonel frank o'sullivan interview; beverly hills high school football and whether the women affected should be awarded compensation. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. She told the audience that WASPI was still proceeding with a case with the Parliamentary Ombudsman to get compensation. Born January 1954. They continue to hold protests, parades, public awareness sessions and other activities to highlight their struggle. The issues were very different. She then explains the profound disappointment we felt on reading the final Stage 2 report in this way: It felt that we were right back where we started, with our experiences disbelieved and the injustices we have suffered inexplicably being decoupled from the maladministration that was their cause. we have been increasingly dying quicker in retirement and The Ombudsman will, in this instance, use what is known as the Severity of Injustice scale to determine the six levels of injustice a complaint may fall into. Its David Henckes mess to clear up by admitting hes made a mistake in his reporting. Many of these donations were for less than 5.00 but they were what the donor could afford. There has to be injustice too. More info. People can and do make mistakes and yes the sound may not have been good but at least have the decency to admit your mistake. Courage Ladies. Burned fence, Davey said Waspi women have been ignored for years. Certain women have also suggested they did not receive correspondence the DWP stated it sent out, informing women of the changes to their state pension. Nobody else gave you permission to speak for them. It would be nice to be compensated, but in all honestly until I see the compensation in my bank account ,I wont believe it.. Heres an earlier Waspi/WaSpi Board dispute which apparently preceded the loss of legal representation by Bindmans for the Maladministration case: https://www.ftadviser.com/state-pension/2018/03/15/waspi-leadership-spat-holds-up-legal-case/. #StandDownWSpi, FAO Angela Madden& #WaSpi Board Members#StandDownWaSpi https://t.co/xADLTZ8QgX pic.twitter.com/WdfRE9IgmU, CEDAWinLAW.COM @CEDAWinLAW #FullRestitution (@2020Comms) September 28, 2022. We would like to thank each and every one of you who have supported our crowdfunding efforts so far. It would also cover circumstances where a reduced quality of life has been endured for a considerable period. R v Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration ex p. Balchin No. In his Stage 1 report, the Ombudsman found the DWP had, since 1995, failed to provide timely information about changes to the State Pension age for affected WASPI women. The only way we can challenge the Ombudsman's decision is by a Judicial Review. The issue is at the heart of a campaign led by Women Against State Pension Inequality, or WASPI. Labour were awarding us 5 grand a year for 6 years! This has negatively affected not just the individual women, but their families too. This is a plea on behalf of the millions of us woman, to sort this out and do the right thing, and not wait for the millions of letters you wil receive regarding the deaths of the women concerned. The meeting began with a statement from Angela Madden but it was difficult to hear her clearly at the back of the room because of the acoustics and early on the organisers asked her to speak up. In short, it makes a massive difference to the injustice that the maladministration caused. The meeting offered a great selection of Canaps-including dairy free ones for not a very big audience of 50 people- but I doubt anyone left any wiser on what would happen next. Our adviser calculator can help you help your clients navigate the benefits system with confidence Find out more Cost of living help A former pensions minister has warned the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign (WASPI) that they are likely to receive "tiny bits of compensation" and not the "thousands and thousands" they may be expecting once the Parliamentary Ombudsman has released its final report. My manifesto is Attlees in the modern age, which includes the biggest betterment of National Insurance and state pension in its history between 1945 and 1951. However I am about to publish the summery of the report in full so people can see all the main points it makes. They call for the millions of women affected by the change to receive compensation. Judicial review is a vital part of the UKs unwritten constitution because it allows the High Court and appeal courts to make sure all other public bodies (including some lower courts) are: The Ombudsman and his local government equivalents have been challenged through judicial review in the past. Many only found out about the change in 2012, by which time many had already left work. This got wiped out on the new 2016 changes. Simpson said they are are not giving up. . Many affected women did not find out about the change until 2012, meaning that they were unable to make alternative retirement plans. It appears through this blog that the Ombudsman is only offering around 1,000 to the 6 sample ladies and 600 ladies that have complaint letters with the Ombudsman. Waspi campaigners argued that they were not given sufficient warning of the change, which saw their retirement age jump from 60 to 65, and then 66 in 2020. READ MORE:WASPI women welcome new boost in ongoing fight for compensation. Please, as ever, keep spreading the word about our case among your family, friends and colleagues and help us to reach that 100,000 target so that we can fight for justice on behalf of all WASPI women. Malad PHSO is solely about 1950sWomen As for the PHSIs provisional report you make a lot of assumptions. I dont even know how this could have been lawful, but never seems to have been picked up in all the ensuing arguements. As promised, we are now in a position to share our legal arguments about where the Ombudsman has gone wrong in deciding whether WASPI women have suffered injustice. New calls for 'justice' for WASPI women over State Pension age compensation from MPs. The Stage 2 report will be the foundation for all decisions on compensation and other remedies. Many were unable to do so due to failing health and scraped by on state benefits, or died before receiving a penny in pension. It took place with a running total banner showing over 203,573 of the women had died and the Treasury had saved over 3.1 billion by these deaths. We urgently need the resources to follow through on our threat of judicial review and challenge the Ombudsman's Stage 2 decisions. They are set out in full in the Bindmans solicitors' letter here. ThankYou David for your support and reporting on the plight of All 50s. A terminally ill mans final days were not properly planned and were more distressing than they should have been. It was Lib Dems Pension Minister between 2010 and 2015 who could have stopped both the Tory and Labour pension age rise laws, but chose to bring them all into law at warp speed, directly causing the misery and early death of us 1950s ladies. Once our judicial review has the funding it needs, we will be ready to go. Interested parties (others who are affected) can have a formal role and reply too. Our fundraising has been going incredibly well over the weekend: we are now over 60% of the way to our target of the fighting fund needed to get our case into court and moving forward with WASPI adequately protected. The government has robbed those still alive & those who have died they have illegally stolen money from their families too. Q2: Why is WASPI challenging the Ombudsman now? 50s women have been badly let down by the very people who should be looking out for us and Im afraid you must take your fair share of the blame. Lets hear a response from Angela Madden, Chair #WaSpi herself. Should I be satisfied with that pitiful amount? If youre going to leak parts of the report, please be accurate about it. GREY SWANS ONLY WAY TO GET 35,000 COMPENSATION and tapered compensation to 1960s ladies. A DWP spokesperson said the Government decided to equalise the State Pension age for men and women more than 25 years ago, as a long-overdue move towards gender equality. Us non WASPI members have may, like me, never have received acknowledgement letters or update letters from the PHSO. Simple fact is truth hurts! Got something to say? Some of those hardest hit would get up to 31,300. The Stage 2 report with its errors will be the basis on which the Ombudsman decides what remedies to recommend, including any compensation. This morning WASPI pledged 954 to the appeal on behalf of those who have made donations on our website, www.waspi.co.uk , between 23 - 26 February. The Liberal Democrats say Waspi women should get 15,000 each. WASPIs case is much more straightforward. Provision should be made to pay 1950 and 1960 women the difference in lifetime discrimination as compensation which is fair and can be calculated. WASPI and #backto60 should unite to lobby both the main parties in UK to recognise that many 50s women will be those suffering from fuel poverty and also the injustice of their treatment in the first place and by governments putting bankers before pensioners. The EU has stolen the works and state pensions from pensioners (however long in payment) and still is from the enslaved indebted EU states of southern and eastern Europe. Please donate whatever you can afford to the fighting fund through CrowdJustice. Those UK nations are not separate countries, but only devolved from the overall laws of UK parliament down in London. There is a Pension Calculator on line where women affected by the pension change can put in their date of birth, to find out how much compensation they can expect. 2[1999] EWHC Admin 484, R (Turpin) v Commissioner for Local Administration[2001] EWHC Admin 503 and Miller v Health Service Commissioner for England [2018] EWCA Civ 144). Unless the injustice we have all suffered is properly identified, there can be no just remedy for it. Please share this page and donate whatever you can; no sum is too small! For 2022/23 these minimums are: - For employees: 123 a week, 533 a month, 6,396 a year. Waspi women are fighting hard for compensation, Had no idea! WASPI woman, 70, frustrated at state pension age change, WASPI widow, 66, faces 'dire' circumstances as energy bills soar, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey holds up his Waspi pledge, WASPI woman caring for brother-in-law slams state pension sum, WASPI women celebrate huge boost to state pension age campaign, Sir Keir Starmer gave his backing for Waspi womens struggle for compensation, Waspi woman's desperate step after State Pension snub. Its simply divisive. It must be caused by the DWP maladministration identified in the earlier report- the 28 month delay. I would really like to know what happened to the pension pot. Afterwards she told me she had to be very cautious in mentioning any sum at all. It all sounds great ,I have lived through (the pound in your pocket),(tightening our belts) (jam tomorrow ) (all in it togetherha ha) the grey suites will not allow it .they got a big shock when we voted BREXIT.they will not allow such a thing again (as a truck driver I worked more hours under the common market and eu ,driving about and talking to people I saw the 08 crash coming and the vote no..they told the waspi women there was no money,then along comes covid,Ukraine (plenty for war mongering and then the icing on the cake 1000 illegals across the channel that they can not stop (really ? ) There are no public comments on this case page. At a time when bills are soaring, they are still fighting heroically for justice after changes to the State Pension left them out of pocket., Liberal Democrats want a fair deal for Waspi women, Davey added. Now there are rumours that people over 60 will now have to pay for their prescriptions. Campaigners refuse to put a figure on how much compensation they want, but previous calculations suggest that if they do get anything, it might be substantial. Labour was not awarding us, as it was not in their published manifesto. The Ombudsman has since completed a second report, summarised in this way on his website: We have taken legal advice from specialist barristers and solicitors. The Ombudsman may recommend compensation for worry and anxiety (normally very small amounts), loss of opportunity (typically more) and direct financial losses (money lost because different choices could and would have been made with a better financial outcome for the individual had there been no maladministration). Women who had originally planned to retire at 60, for example, would have been available for caregiving roles within their families, both for children and elderly relatives. Thank you for everything you do; please know that we truly do value your honest, no-nonsense approach which lays bare/opens to scrutiny events/incidents impacting our daily lives no matter (how distasteful some may find it). I travelled Europe by road (yep a female map reader right across the continent), long before you, and we managed to trade with Europe without the political union. The Women Against State Pension Injustice (Waspi) campaign group has been recruiting senior political figures to support their campaign. Our surveys show that a third of WASPI women are now in debt, with some having to sell their homes to survive. Perhaps youre thinking of a different topic. The pandemic has killed off pensioners at the rate of 1bn less paid out in state pension going on into the future. Why are you continually getting at Waspi and basically making stuff up? In the past the Ombudsmans decisions and those of his predecessors have been overturned where they have been irrational that is, illogical or unsupported by established facts or procedurally unfair. All English Franais. Grey Swans is the most unique of all pension campaigns, as has stopped campaigning like a begging bowl to the rich, to any elected political type, and is asking for moral support from 1950s to 1980s born ladies, please, for creation of a new Over 50s (saves all ages) party, that offers by getting into a new government, by your kind votes, at next general election: 35,000 compensation to 1950s ladies The Ombudsman will not budge. The PHSO has not said people do not need to be compensated for financial loss only worry and confusion in his Stage 2 provisional report. The DWP failed to carry out a proper Equality Impact Assessment on its policy implementation of 1995 pension act and subsequent laws this breaches the Public Sector Equality Duty part of the Equality Act. Saturday, 4th March 2023See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. State pension age is set to rise to 68 - when will you retire? Its critical that WASPI has enough money set aside to protect itself against the Ombudsmans legal costs and can pay the legal team fairly. WASPI women are referred to reports of other investigations so they can see recommendations made in other cases and the amount awarded., which averages out at around 2,000 and very rarely meets. Allowance. WASPI and BackTo60 cannot unite, as the complaints are entirely different. Delighted to help. Retirement and me: Woman, 67, furious at state pension age changes, WASPI women in new state pension compensation warning, Waspi women have fought hard against the state pension age increase, WASPI hit back at astonishingly arrogant DWP, State pension set to rise by THREE times inflation in 2023, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has shown support for Waspi women, WASPI women welcome new boost in ongoing fight for compensation. WASPI strongly agrees with Labour's proposition that families at all generations need security, prosperity and respect. Only Jeremy Corbyn as leader offered us 31,100 compensation, which was sabotaged by the present Labour leader Starmer, and his fellow saboteurs against Labour winning 2019 general election. Lets not get into #WaSpiWordplay well be here all night. WEBSITE You can read the still confidential report and the scandal at ICE on this site. I was unable to work after fracturing my back in 2016 and needed that extra money they stole from me to help make alterations to our house, installing a WC on the ground floor and a shower in the bathroom which was paid from the money I receivef from a small pension I cashed in. BackTo60 is a campaign to get CEDAW international treaty on the rights of women and girls into UK domestic law and then ask for a temporary special measure to pay compensation to the 1950s ladies. WASPI Statement to PHSO's Provisional Draft Second Report 18th August 2022 14469 The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has now circulated a provisional draft of its second report, on the emotional and financial impact of the maladministration, to complainants - but has done so on condition of confidentiality. Note, some parts have had to be redacted (blanked out) because they refer to information about the Ombudsman's draft Stage 3 report which is confidential at this time. One does not need anyones permission to report a meeting that is advertised in the Labour Party programme particularly as I was an accredited journalist at the conference I will say that at the beginning it was a bit difficult to hear the platform until the organiser intervened to improve the microphones. The 2nd report is so far only provisional. 7590. Three planning appeal decisions in one case were mishandled and subsequently quashed,leading to the person affected being unable to properly plan and run their business for a substantial period of time. I think the government spent that money so none was left for our pensions on retirement and maybe thats why they put the working age to 65 and then 66 yr because there was nothing left to pay us with. You can unsubscribe at any time. Equally sadly, we did not have law to give us a contract right nor a human right to the state pension. The main targets are the stark inconsistencies between the Ombudsmans Stage 1 report - which rightly found maladministration by the DWP on a massive scale and the Stage 2 report, which finds that maladministration led to no injustice at all in relation to lost opportunities or direct financial losses in any of the cases examined. Whilst the focus of the Stage 2 report is the six test case complainants, the Ombudsman's findings effectively apply to everyone whose circumstances are similar. Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) are waiting for a verdict on the state pension compensation as 'cruel rumours' fly on social media adding to the uncertainty over how . Pension: How Lifetime Allowance may impact you as 'tax raid' rumoured. #WASPI women count and can calculate. Much harder to show. More info. In 1995, the government introduced a gradual increase of the State Pension Age from 60 to 65 for women but did not notify them, Simpson said. It takes great courage to report honestly on uncomfortable.fortable home truths that some may not wish to hear Once a judicial is granted permission, there are further exchanges of evidence and legal argument leading up to a hearing when another High Court Judge (or very occasionally the one who has also granted permission) will hear legal arguments from barristers representing the people who have brought the case, the public body defending the case (here the Ombudsman) and any interested parties.
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