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Waspi Compensation: Government Agrees to Reconsider State Pension Decision Within 12 Weeks - Nottinghamshire Live
Ministers paused a December judicial review and pledged to reconsider compensation within 12 weeks, covering over half of Waspi’s legal costs after maladministration findings.
- On Wednesday, Women Against State Pension Inequality said the UK Government agreed a 'speedy and thorough' reconsideration of compensation, cancelling a planned hearing.
- Last year, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman found maladministration and campaigners say poor communication left women born in the 1950s facing longer work or hardship, while the Government rejected a £10.5 billion blanket scheme in December 2024.
- Court proceedings revealed a 2007 Department for Work and Pensions evaluation showing officials stopped sending automatic pension forecast letters, and Angela Madden, chairwoman of Waspi, said the group stands ready to return to court if ministers fail to act.
- Ministers committed to make 'best endeavours' to reconsider potential compensation within 12 weeks, or by February 24, and to pause the judicial review scheduled for December 9 and 10.
- Earlier this year, parliamentary attempts to secure compensation faltered when Stephen Flynn's Waspi compensation bill was blocked and critics accused the Government of 'waiting for the Waspi generation to die' as the Waspi campaign website says 397,163 Waspi women have died since 2015.
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