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A determination not to grant compensation to the Waspi women volition beryllium reconsidered by the authorities due to the fact that of undisclosed "evidence", the Work and Pensions Secretary has said.
Waspi women - Women Against State Pensions Inequality - are women calved successful the 1950s who accidental they were not fixed capable informing of the authorities pension property for women being lifted to beryllium successful enactment with men - from 60 to 65.
They person agelong argued that this was done excessively quickly, leaving immoderate women financially unprepared to header with the fig of years erstwhile they were nary longer capable to assertion their authorities pension.
The authorities said successful December that they would not beryllium compensated, due to the fact that astir women knew the changes were coming.
But Pat McFadden told the Commons connected Tuesday: "Since then, arsenic portion of the ineligible proceedings challenging the government's decision, grounds has been cited astir probe findings from a 2007 report."
This grounds relates to an valuation of the effectiveness of automatic Pension Forecast Letters.
Mr McFadden said: "In airy of this, and successful the involvement of fairness and transparency, I person concluded that the authorities should present see this evidence. This means we volition retake the determination made past December arsenic it relates to the communications connected State Pension age."
Around 3.6 cardinal women were impacted by the alteration to the authorities pension age. The authorities has antecedently said compensating them could outgo £10.5bn.
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