WASPI women warn Liz Truss thousands could die this winter due to pension delay
The Women Against State Pension Inequality have warned Liz Truss that thousands of women hit by a delay to their pensions could die this winter as they are forced to choose between eating and heating amid the cost of living crisis.
An open letter has been issued today to the Prime Minister urging her to "deliver justice" for the 3.8 million people born in the 1950s who suddenly found they would have to work many more years when the State Pension age was increased. In the letter it claims that one woman dies waiting for justice every 14 minutes.
The State Pension age was increased to 65 for women between 2016 and 2018 and then to 66 for both men and women between 2018 and 2020. This led to an investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman which ruled last year that the Department for Work and Pensions failed to communicate the changes with enough urgency, finding it guilty of maladministration.
Angela Madden, the chair of the Waspi group, said: "Many women had taken early retirement or left the workplace to undertake caring responsibilities, in full expectation that they’d receive a state pension from age 60. Then the rug was pulled from under them. "Now Waspi women are facing their hardest winter yet, with no savings amid a cost-of-living and energy cost crisis. This means many will have to make very difficult choices about necessities such as food and heating."Changes to the State Pension age, which were legislated for in 1995, were not communicated through targeted letters to the affected women until 2008.
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