Waspi women compensation hopes soar as watchdog demands DWP names decision day | Personal Finance | Finance [Video]

Waspi stands for Women Against State Pension Injustice (or Inequality, depending on the campaign group). It represents around 3.8 million women born in the 1950s were hit by moves to bring their retirement age into line with men.

Waspis have campaigned for years, claiming they weren’t given enough warning of the change, which ruined hundreds of thousands of lives.

Many say they did not even know the retirement age was going to rise from 60 to 65 – and then to 66 – until months before they were due to retire.

The Waspi campaign got a real boost in July 2021, when the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) ruled that the DWP should have written individual letters to affected women 28 months before it finally sent them out.

It called this “maladministration” and it gave Waspi women hopes that they could secure compensation. They got a further boost last month …