Campaigners believe a Public Inquiry is necessary to 'expose the truth' about the changes to retirement age.
More than 8,500 people have signed an online petition calling for a public inquiry to be held into changes made to the State Pension age for women. Petition creator Kay Clarke argues that increases to the State Pension age have left many women in “financial and mental despair” and believes that an inquiry “is necessary to expose the truth”.
The Ombudsman’s report has suggested compensation at level four, ranging between £1,000 and £2,950, could be appropriate for each of those affected. However, this is a lower range than the £10,000 figure - level six of the PHSO remedy scale - previously suggested by the State Pension Inequality For Women All-Party Parliamentary Group and the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign.
Following the publication of the report, the Ombudsman said the DWP has not acknowledged its failings nor put things right for those affected. Its investigation found that thousands of women born in the 1950s may have been affected.
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