Anneliese Dodds said the Waspi women deserved 'respect' but did not say that a Labour government would compensate them.
A senior Labour MP has refused to commit to giving compensation to women born in the 1950s affected by changes to the state pension age.
It comes after the the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman said the Department for Work and Pensions failed to adequately communicate changes to women’s state pension age.Aberdeen native Dodds was asked on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg if the women should be compesnated. “I think Laura, if I was to sit in your studio and I was to say, plucking out of the air, this is exactly how, for example, compensation should work or other elements of the response to the Waspi women … I don't think they would believe me, frankly, and nor should they.”
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