WASPI Updates

Daily Mail – 24 February 2025

WASPI women threaten legal action against Labour ministers after being denied £10.5bn in compensation because of changes to the state pension age. The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign... Read more

ITN Business – 24 Feb 2025

Understanding the WASPI compensation debate: What’s at stake for 1950s-born women? The debate over compensation for the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign took another turn this week, as... Read more

WASPI included in the Collins English Dictionary – February 2025

WASPI has been campaigning for a long time. So long that WASPI is now in common use to describe women born in the 1950s affected by the changes to the... Read more

WASPI tells Work and Pensions Committee the impact of Government’s refusal to pay compensation

WASPI and the Ombudsman gave evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee on 22nd January. Several papers took up the story and the express ran an opinion piece. The focus... Read more

Results from our recent poll show strong support for compensation for WASPI women – 1 January 2025

The outcomes of a poll commissioned by WASPI is discussed in the Mirror. The poll, commission with an independent polling company, found 74% of those polled thought WASPI women should... Read more

Liz Kendall tells Parliament there will be no compensation for WASPI women! – 17 December 2024

Campaigners have reacted with fury to what they call the government's "unjustified" rejection of compensation for women hit by changes to the state pension age. They say 3.6 million women... Read more

BBC Breakfast – 17 December 2024

Jan Fulster and Angela Madden interviewed on BBC Breakfast after the announcement that the government will not be following the recommendations of the Ombudsman. Click here to watch Read more