Pensions Minister to meet with WASPI campaign

Pensions minister Emma Reynolds is to meet with the WASPI campaign in the autumn.

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The Pensions Minister Emma Reynolds is to meet with the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign after the summer recess.

The invitation comes after WASPI chief Angela Madden sent a letter to the minister in July calling on ministers to “urgently bring forward financial redress proposals” for all MPs to have their say.

Reynolds had pledged to meet with WASPI campaigners when responding to MPs in July, committing to listen to “all views” alongside those of 1950s-born women.

WASPI says more than 3.6 million women born in the 1950s were impacted after the Government failed to properly inform them of increases to their State Pension age.

Tens of thousands were forced into poverty as a result and WASPI calls for all those affected to be compensated. A Parliamentary Ombudsman investigation said that ministers should apologise and should pay the women affected compensation.

Madden, Chair of WASPI, said: “We are pleased the Pensions Minister has agreed to meet with WASPI representatives after the summer recess and we look forward to working in collaboration with her to see justice delivered to those affected as quickly as possible.

“We have been overwhelmed with support from MPs across the political spectrum since the election and the cross-party consensus for delivering fair and fast compensation is clearly growing.”