Q&A - Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI)

YES what has happened to the legal case nobody answers that question when it is asked.

And you're right, Hm999, many supporters from all parties have worked tirelessly behind the scenes. I'm sure I heard that the All Party Parliamentary Group supporting WASPI is the largest ever assembled, and still growing. Your graphic clearly highlights the unfairness of the situation - for someone to get their pension nearly three and a half years later than a friend born in the same year is clearly unjustifiable.

I have heard the wonderful Mhairi Black speak at both national WASPI demos and each time she described how she took up the cause after meeting the WASPI member who came to see her at her first surgery. WASPI was founded before Mhairi was elected and I'm sure she'd be the last person to want to take credit away from the founders.

Is Labour supporting all 50's women. Dawn Butler said in an article on 11th September

"Labour during the General Election called for pension credits to be extended to women affected to help end the plight of the tens of thousands of women abandoned to live in poverty by the Tory Government’s changes to their state pension age"

Read more at: inews.co.uk/opinion/dawn-butler-pledge-waspi-women/

What has happened to the legal case?

The Waspi website has letter templates to challenge the DWP, regarding the lack of information when the SPA was hiked up. I've sent four letters now and my case is being reviewed by and Independent Case Examiner.

I will finally receive my pension from 6th November, but not the full pension as I too got caught out by the qualifying years being increased from 30 to 35 - as I'm no longer working I didn't have the wherewithal to make up the shortfall in contributions. The cartoon above shows just how iniquitous the revised system is.

I'm 55, not in the best of health and feel like I will be working until I drop dead. The goal posts are forever moving. My husband is 10 years older than me and we hoped he could work until 70 and we could retire together when I was 60. Sadly no longer to be with my projected retirement age now set st 67.5. It's not fair .

Through Twitter, Mhairi Black's contribution has been given much credit. Many other MPs and public figures have also been very supportive.

This Twitter picture neatly shows the way women have been treated with contempt

I'd like to say that if it hadn't ben highlighted by Mhairi Black of the SNP and she KEPT it in the media there would probably be no WASPI group .Mhairi has fought for us 1950's women tirelessly and I for one would like to see her get the credit she's due

GranJan I'm in the same position, I was born '54. Stopped work at 58 for various reasons. I don't get anything as I don't want to be looking for work.

Are WASPI also highlighting the fact that the number of qualifying years has also increased from 30 to 35. So that while we thought we had enough years to get the full pension if we had 30 years, we then found out we had to pay extra?

Very confused since Carolyn Harris's latest efforts to help. Is this now just for women born 1953 or earlier? I am 63 and redundant 3 years ago. Unable to get another job though qualified, I got only 6m JSA and am now reliant on my husband's pension. NO income of my own for another 2.5 years, after 45 years of work. Disgusting to be abandoned by Government to life with no independence or self respect.