DWP boss due to face questions on State Pension age compensation for WASPI women this week

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The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign (WASPI) have written to shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, following her comments on compensation for 1950s-born women made during a press conference in Edinburgh earlier this week. Speaking to journalists alongside Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at the head office of NatWest Group on Tuesday, Ms Reeves was asked about compensation promised to WASPI women under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party. Ms Reeves said that she recognised the injustice, but added that no costing of compensation has been carried out yet.

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When Rishi Sunak surprised the country and his own party by calling a general election for July 4, compensation bills for the victims of the infected blood and Horizon scandals were rushed through parliament to make sure that people got the money they deserved. However, one of the largest groups of people affected by a historic injustice had their fight kicked into the long grass again - the 3.6 million WASPI women.

Nearly 1.4 million older people across Great Britain, including more than 126,800 living in Scotland, are currently receiving Pension Credit support of around £3,900 each year. However, the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) suggest there are still 880,000 eligible pensioners not claiming the benefit they are entitled to.

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Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaigners have been delivered a blow to their drive for compensation, with the progress of recent weeks now "defunct", following Rishi Sunak's announcement of a July 4 general election.

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that on Monday, May 27 all Jobcentre Plus offices and phone lines will be closed due to the Spring bank holiday. It has also confirmed people due to receive a scheduled payment on that day will instead see the money land in their bank account on Friday, May 24.

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently published a new update on progress of the State Pension Underpayments Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice (LEAP) exercise. The latest figures show that 97,016 people over State Pension age - mostly women - have received back payments averaging £2,192, £5,713 and £12,486, depending on their pension category.

Sir Stephen Timms, chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, has written to Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, following an oral evidence session last week with the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) Campaign and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) on the findings in its final report into changes made to the State Pension age for millions of women born in the 1950s.

The latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that at the end of August 2023, more than 1.5 million older people were receiving additional financial support through Attendance Allowance, including over 136,200 living in Scotland. This is a significant increase of 36,061 on the number of people claiming the non-means tested benefit in the previous quarter, ending in May 2023.

Bosses at the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) have promised to 'leave no stone unturned' in tackling unemployment after it emerged that 85,000 people had left work since the start of the year. This makes Britain the only major economy with fewer people working than before the pandemic, after more than one million people dropped out of the workforce.

The Scottish Government will replace Winter Fuel Payments with a new devolved lump sum later this year. Pension Age Winter Heating Payment (PAWHP) is set to be provided on a like-for-like basis to its Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) counterpart and paid to everyone over the State Pension age every year.