Has everyone received a letter from Dwp regarding WFP?

No I haven’t had a letter as yet

Yes I had mine last week. Nowt for me either.
I didn't get the pension age letter either.

We both had a letter 2 weeks ago.

There was a thread on this last week. Several (inc me) felt it a complete waste of money, but others appreciated seeing the list of those still eligible.

Got WFA letter, did not get raisein pension age letter.

Are they sending this out t everyone or just those still eligible to receive the payment?

If everyone, what a waste of money.

My husband received one a couple of weeks ago went straight in the bin

what a complete waste of time, effort and money. Especially as both myself and my husband received individual letters!

Husband had his letter 2 weeks ago, I got mine last week informing us we don't qualify, which we already knew. I never received a letter telling me my pension age had increased, that's the one I wish I had got.

My wife got one last Thursday - mine arrived today.

I received mine about 2 weeks ago. It said there had been a "change" to my WFP. Seeing as I had never received it before, being previously too young, there was NO change at all for me!!
What a waste of money telling thousands of people this.

Yes. DH and I have both received one. I agree it’s an absolute waste of time and money.

I’ve had one, stating who will still be eligible to receive the WFA. Which does not include me or dh.
Not sure whether he’s had one.

Yes. I threw it in the bin in disgust!

It looks like they're playing it safe and making sure everyone gets a letter this time. I'm also one who didn't get a pension age increase letter

I'm sure my letter included information about how to claim pension credit and what benefits in addition to WFP can be accessed regardless of how small the amount of PC someone is entitled to. Applications for PC have soared and the govt has taken on extra people in order to try to process the claims as quickly as pos, I really pleased about that and the reason every one who might be eligible needs to be contacted.

Had mine about 2 weeks ago and DH has had his today, as you say OP what a waste of money and paper, they went straight into the shredding bin.

Both ours arrived in the same delivery, so both went in bin.

Yes. Straight in the shredder. More waste of money.

I haven't received one, so perhaps all those who are not personally informed can complain like the waspi women.

foxie48

I'm sure my letter included information about how to claim pension credit and what benefits in addition to WFP can be accessed regardless of how small the amount of PC someone is entitled to. Applications for PC have soared and the govt has taken on extra people in order to try to process the claims as quickly as pos, I really pleased about that and the reason every one who might be eligible needs to be contacted.

I'm glad they've drafted in extra people but I agree with Martin Lewis, they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of being able to process up to 850,000 applications in the next couple of months. Most pensioners will not run up fuel bills they can't be sure they can pay.

They really are totally useless aren't they.

DianaLouise

what a complete waste of time, effort and money. Especially as both myself and my husband received individual letters!

Yes, we received separate letters too. Talk about rubbing salt into the wound!

sharon103

Yes I had mine last week. Nowt for me either.
I didn't get the pension age letter either.

Yep...you and me both. I had that letter last week.

Ditto re that pension age letter. I duly signed and sent off my copy of the official WASPI letter complaining I'd not been notified of them revising my State Pension Age upwards (grrr!).

Latest article I've read re our chances of getting any of our money back on that one was in the online Daily Mail today and I interpreted it as "Not just will the Government (maybe.....big maybe) plan on only giving me peanuts of my stolen money back again (ie that maximum for anyone of approx £3,000) - but it looks to me as if any of our money that is given back to us will be contingent on whether we knew at the time they were going to do this to us personally".

So maybe....just itsy bitsy maybe someone who didn't know they were going to do this to her might conceivably get a tiny bit of money back. But those of us that can't say "I got to nearly 60 and was ready to retire and only then realised they'd shifted the goalposts - and I am broke/so broke because they did that" might be lucky to even get peanuts back of our money.

Personally - I knew the second They decided to do that to me. I remember sitting there in my 40's reading the financial pages and thinking "B*stards! How dare they do that to me.....expletive deleted and surely I'm too old for them to do that to me as well, because I've done so much of my worklife by now". But I actually started my financial planning for retirement in my 30's (ie several years before they pulled that stunt on us) and so I survived financially - though it was part of why my finances were worse than I'd planned on and I had to move across country (not by choice).