{"id":26643,"date":"2024-05-10T14:56:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smh.group\/?p=26643"},"modified":"2024-05-10T14:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:56:24","slug":"women-against-state-pension-inequality-continue-to-fight-for-fair-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devstagesite.co.uk\/smhgroup\/women-against-state-pension-inequality-continue-to-fight-for-fair-pensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Against State Pension Inequality continue to fight for fair pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A recent report recommends that women born in the 1950s should receive compensation due to insufficient pensions. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waspi.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women Against State Pension Inequality<\/a> (WASPI) campaign, active for nine years, has persistently claimed that these women were unjustly affected by increases in the State Pension Age (SPA). Previously, the SPA was 60 for women and 65 for men until April 5, 2010. Following this, the SPA for women gradually rose by six months each year to 63 by April 2016, then quickly increased to 65 by December 2018. It further aligned to 66 for both genders by November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>WASPI\u2019s main contention throughout has been the inadequate communication surrounding SPA changes, resulting in insufficient time to change retirement plans and financial hardship for some of the 3.8 million women affected. A judicial review concluded, after appeal, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-work-pensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department for Work &amp; Pensions<\/a> (DWP) had no legal duty to give notice of SPA changes.<\/p>\n<p>With legal options effectively closed, WASPI switched its focus to an investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), which had published an initial report in 2021. Delayed by legal action, the PHSO\u2019s long-awaited final report was published in March 2024 with the conclusion that compensation of between \u00a31,000 and \u00a32,950 should be paid by the DWP to those affected.<\/p>\n<p>Given that this implies an estimated bill of up to \u00a310.5 billion, it is not surprising that the PHSO suspects that the DWP \u201cwill not remedy the injustice\u201d. Indeed, the DWP has responded that it is only considering the PHSO\u2019s findings. Some commentators have suggested that the government is playing for time to allow the decision to pass to whichever party wins the general election. However, the new government will also be tasked with considering the next SPA increase to age 68, which could start as early as 2037. The rise to SPA 67 runs from April 2026 to April 2028.<\/p>\n<p>If there is one lesson to be drawn from this long-running saga, it is to make sure you know your SPA, because the DWP is not obliged to tell you.<\/p>\n<p>To discuss your financial planning,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/devstagesite.co.uk\/smhgroup\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact<\/a>\u00a0our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/devstagesite.co.uk\/smhgroup\/financial-services\/\"><strong>Sheffield based Financial Advisers<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>0114 266 4432<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@smh.group\"><strong>info@smh.group<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report recommends that women born in the 1950s should receive compensation due to insufficient pensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[212,359,361],"class_list":["post-26643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-services","tag-dwp","tag-state-pension","tag-state-pension-age"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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