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MEDIA COVERAGE 2022/23
Oct 2023 - WASPI women campaign at Conservative Conference, Manchester
Waspi Salford and Eccles group quite fittingly met at the Pankhurst statue, a very appropriate choice as the engraving reads 'Rise up Women' and that is exactly what they did.
March 2023 - ‘Furious’ Waspi women unite to fight ‘catalogue of errors’ in State Pension Age report
Campaigners fighting moves to hike the state pension age for women have joined forces to confirm their support for a legal challenge against the Ombudsman that is reviewing their case.
September 2022 - WASPI urges new Minister to put things right
September 2022 - WASPI urges new Minister to put things right
WASPI Chair Hilary Simpson writes to the new Pensions Minister Chloe Smith reminding her that it was maladministration when 1950s women weren’t given proper notice of changes to their state pension age and she should resolve this long-standing issue.
July 2022 - WASPI hoping for compensation any day
September 2022 - WASPI urges new Minister to put things right
WASPI WOMEN caught out by moves to hike the State Pension age in line with men have been battling hard for compensation. Now they are holding their breath as a verdict edges closer.
July 2022 - Not Going Away Month
WASPI women in new state pension compensation warning - ‘We’re not going away’
June 2022 - Simon Fell MP Conservative Barrow and Furness pledges support for WASPI
"The issue is about 'fairness', hence my backing of the ongoing campaign. This is about making sure that people had sufficient notice that the arrangements for their pensions were changing."
June 2022 - LibDem Leader says WASPI women "still fighting heroically for justice"
Leader of the Opposition signs pledge supporting our campaign for fair and fast compen
Leader of the Opposition signs pledge supporting our campaign for fair and fast compen
Hilary Simpson, chair of the Waspi Campaign 2018, said: “We are very grateful to the Leaders of the main Opposition parties for their support.”
She said failure to give 1950s women proper notice of the changes to their pension age had “disastrous” results.
Leader of the Opposition signs pledge supporting our campaign for fair and fast compen
Leader of the Opposition signs pledge supporting our campaign for fair and fast compen
Leader of the Opposition signs pledge supporting our campaign for fair and fast compen
Hilary Simpson, Chair of the WASPI Campaign, said: “When the Ombudsman recommends compensation we will be urging Parliament to accept it without quibbling, and to implement it fairly and without delay.”
She said Starmer’s backing was huge. "The support of the leader of the opposition for our fair and fast compensation campaign is a welcome development.”
The pledge signed by Starmer reads: "I support fair and fast compensation for 1950s women."
State pension scandal: WASPI women expect 'maximum compensation' after MPs' report
Leader of the Opposition signs pledge supporting our campaign for fair and fast compen
State pension scandal: WASPI women expect 'maximum compensation' after MPs' report
Last week they published a report strongly arguing for "top level" compensation. Hilary Simpson, Chair of Women Against State Pension Injustice (Waspi) 2018, said this confirms the injustice. “We are delighted that the MPs’ report has come out so strongly in favour of the maximum compensation,” she said.
MEDIA COVERAGE 2021
‘Horrendous’ WASPI women death toll - 1,300 a month die before getting ANY State Pension
WASPI woman works 50 years yet STILL has no State Pension - 'There's no joy in scrimping'
WASPI woman lost £43,000 in State Pension age hike. ‘Living off savings for three years’
‘Yet more DWP incompetence!' WASPI women fury at new State Pension disaster
WASPI women 'confidently expect recompense' - hopes grow ahead of Ombudsman report
WASPI women expect ‘substantial’ compensation. ‘Most of us have lost £50,000’
WASPI women expect ‘substantial’ compensation. ‘Most of us have lost £50,000’
WASPI women 'confidently expect recompense' - hopes grow ahead of Ombudsman report
WASPI women expect ‘substantial’ compensation. ‘Most of us have lost £50,000’
WASPI women 'confidently expect recompense' - hopes grow ahead of Ombudsman report
WASPI women 'confidently expect recompense' - hopes grow ahead of Ombudsman report
WASPI women 'confidently expect recompense' - hopes grow ahead of Ombudsman report
WASPI campaigner's message to politicians over pensions
WASPI campaigner's message to politicians over pensions
WASPI campaigner's message to politicians over pensions
WASPI Women vindicated!
WASPI campaigner's message to politicians over pensions
WASPI campaigner's message to politicians over pensions
MEDIA COVERAGE
16th August 2024 - Starmer decried Waspi women ‘injustice’ when he needed their votes - see what he says now.
While in opposition Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer railed against the "huge injustice" Waspi women had suffered. It's a different story now he's in power.
3rd June 2024 - Waspi women reckon their vote could swing general election so MPs 'better have answers'.
Waspi women are displaying bold, coloured posters in their windows saying: “A voting WASPI women lives here who is fighting for compensation.”
MEDIA COVERAGE of PHSO Final Report - March 2024
TALK TV Jake Berry Show
"A WASPI woman dies every 13 minutes" Women's lives 'ruined' by Pensions Age change. Hilary Simpson, Chair of WASPI Campaign 2018
BBC News Channel with Matthew Amroliwala
UK government urged to compensate WASPI women over pensions. WASPI Campaign 2018 Chair, Hilary Simpson interviewed by Matthew Amroliwala on the BBC news channel last Friday, along with two other WASPI women.
The Guardian - ‘I felt like I’d been scammed’: woman describes chaos of state pension age changes
Steering Group Chair, Hilary Simpson, tells her all too familiar story after hearing today’s announcement from the PHSO that Waspi women had suffered from maladministration and are due compensation.
Mail Online - Vice Chair of WASPI Campaign 2018 and coordinator of Ceredigion group, Pamela Judge, says the new ruling does not go far enough to help victims.
WASPI campaigner who retired at 58 but went back to work due to the pension age hike despite suffering with autoimmune disease slams £2,950 compensation proposals
Daily Record - The Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) report said the women are owed compensation
Over 6000 West Lothian women short changed by rise in pension age could get compensation.
Salford Now - Campaigners are demanding that the Government takes action to compensate women affected by changes in the state pension age.
Judith Robertson, Coordinator of the Salford WASPI group, said that she is “delighted” the report has recognised the “maladministration” by the Department for Work & Pensions but takes issue with the suggested level of compensation.