WASPIs' Ten Thousand payment

Compensation for maladministration is on a sliding scale from an apology to more than £10,000 in compensation, but only in the most serious cases.

BTW It's been established that there was "maladministration", but only in one specific instance. After a survey, the DWP decided in 2006 to wrote to certain women to inform them of the changes, but delayed doing so for 28 months.

Germanshepherdsmum

How women could have been unaware is beyond me.

I don't really understand it either. People always seem to have something to say about current affairs and politics, but I wonder where they get their facts from. If they don't even know something which will affect them personally, how on earth can they comment on anything which doesn't affect them?

It was never as you described welbeck.

welbeck

it may have been announced in the 1990s, but was it stated then, definitely, to whom it would apply ?
i remember reading of a proposal to raise the women's retirement age by stages, so that those born up to 1960 would retire at age 60, born 1961 to retire at age 61, and so on, until 1965 or 66 was reached.
this would have been fairer, giving more to older women, more chance to adapt, and easily understood.
i had foolishly assumed when they spoke of changes, that it would be along those lines.
i cert never had any official notification, nothing from DWP.

Yes, I remember looking at the dates when it would apply and to whom and cursing because my date of birth meant that I would be affected - just!

I didn’t receive any letters. No hope of receiving the money they owe me. Did the full 38 years.

Yes, it's the women who are in that gap who I feel most sorry for.

I’ve said before on threads about WASPI women, that I received a letter which told me I would receive my state pension at 61 instead of 60. I did not receive any further letters but when checking online what my pension would be, I discovered that I wouldn’t receive my state pension until I was 63. I don’t know how much pension I lost in those three years, but whatever it was, I lost it! And I missed out on receiving the new state pension by exactly three weeks. If I had been born in early April (after April 6th) instead of near the end of March, I would be receiving more money via the new state pension, but I’m not!

I can believe you never received letters.

It's a struggle to find out exactly what your pension entitlement was, with rule changes, contracted in/out, graduated pension, pre 97, post 97 etc etc.
Add some on, take most of it off again, add a bit for graduated pension,
And the grand total is - less than you thought it should be!

Urmstongran

I won’t be holding my breath. The government (thanks Nick Clegg, not just the students you shafted) swindled me out of £40k by making me wait till I was 66y+ before handing me a state pension.

Yes, you upgraded my monthly amount ‘to compensate’ but it will take me till I’m 85y if I live that long, to claw that huge amount back.

It stung.

By the law of averages the government will be quids in.

I'm not sure what the exact amoubt is that women have missed out on by having to wait longer for their pensions.

However, the new State Pension starts at £50 per week higher for far fewer years of NI contributions than the old State Pension, for which men had to wait until the age of 65 anyway. That was an anomaly which needed correction.

Percentage increases year on year in State Pensions will mean that the gap between the old State Pension and new State Pension will widen even further over years.

paddyann54

No letters here ,I'm not stupid if I'd had letters they would be in the file.I have other documents going back decades but nothing from DWP

I am not stupid either. Is it a coincidence we both live in the West of Scotland, paddyann?
I too am a keeper of letters. I still have hospital letters from 1977, from when I first became ill.
I really must destroy them. 🤔

How women could have been unaware is beyond me.

No letters here ,I'm not stupid if I'd had letters they would be in the file.I have other documents going back decades but nothing from DWP

So that was Iain Duncan Smith under the Coalition.

Then the Pensions Act 2011 accelerated the timetable for equalising State Pension age at 65, so that it was completed in November 2018, and brought forward the increase in State Pension age to 66 to between 2018 and 2020.

I was born in 1955, and it was with that Act that my SPA went up from 64 years, 10 months to 66.

It was the Pensions Act of 1995 introduced by the Conservatives. Peter Lilley was Secretary of State for Social Security under John Major's Premiership.

it may have been announced in the 1990s, but was it stated then, definitely, to whom it would apply ?
i remember reading of a proposal to raise the women's retirement age by stages, so that those born up to 1960 would retire at age 60, born 1961 to retire at age 61, and so on, until 1965 or 66 was reached.
this would have been fairer, giving more to older women, more chance to adapt, and easily understood.
i had foolishly assumed when they spoke of changes, that it would be along those lines.
i cert never had any official notification, nothing from DWP.

Urmstongran

Well Marydoll thanks for that.
It reinforces what I just said.
The mendacious Cleggie knew it would raise a lot of money.

We won’t see any of it - of that I’m certain.

Blame the Conservative governments of the 1990s.

Urmstongran

I won’t be holding my breath. The government (thanks Nick Clegg, not just the students you shafted) swindled me out of £40k by making me wait till I was 66y+ before handing me a state pension.

Yes, you upgraded my monthly amount ‘to compensate’ but it will take me till I’m 85y if I live that long, to claw that huge amount back.

It stung.

By the law of averages the government will be quids in.

Nick Clegg didn't make you wait six years. The increase to 65 for women was announced in the 1990s. Clegg didn't even become an MP until 2005.

The Ombudsman has stated that any recommendations in his report will apply across the board, not just to women who have lodged a complaint.

HousePlantQueen

Why blame Clegg? He was part of a coalition administration. I knew about the change to my retirement age, like most of my friends, I had several letters from DWP, and saw reports in the press and on TV. I too "lost" £40k+. Should I just pretend that I didn't know and claim the £10k?

I only knew, because I read it in the press and it was discussed in our staffroom, all my friends, a year older than me received it at sixty, I just missed it. ☹.
No letters received here.

Why blame Clegg? He was part of a coalition administration. I knew about the change to my retirement age, like most of my friends, I had several letters from DWP, and saw reports in the press and on TV. I too "lost" £40k+. Should I just pretend that I didn't know and claim the £10k?

Well Marydoll thanks for that.
It reinforces what I just said.
The mendacious Cleggie knew it would raise a lot of money.

We won’t see any of it - of that I’m certain.

This!

Sorry, you have to click on the image to see the figures.

I won’t be holding my breath. The government (thanks Nick Clegg, not just the students you shafted) swindled me out of £40k by making me wait till I was 66y+ before handing me a state pension.

Yes, you upgraded my monthly amount ‘to compensate’ but it will take me till I’m 85y if I live that long, to claw that huge amount back.

It stung.

By the law of averages the government will be quids in.