'I didn't judge it would be the best use of taxpayers money to pay an expensive compensation bill for something most people knew was happening'
Chancellor Rachel Reeves defends the governments decision not to compensate more than 3.5 million WASPI women affected by increase in state pension age
Chancellor Rachel Reeves defends the governments decision not to compensate more than 3.5 million WASPI women affected by increase in state pension age
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So I have been trawling through from 1992 to 1995.
As you said, plenty of information!
I don’t remember any of them talking politics?
Yes, of course he was MP then but I can’t remember ever hearing what he said about it.
But it’s what was said and written at the time that I am looking for.
Wish I could access those papers now to prove it.
But I am sure someone in the Government and in the Ombudsman could.
It changed in 1995 and someone born in the 50s retiring at 60 would have been 2010 at the earliest.
Fifteen years.
These are people that didn't bother to take responsibility for their own financial security. Didn't look it up. Didn't check. Didn't ask.
I don't understand the argument that historical lower wages means they should retire earlier.
I know she’s our Chancellor but she’s too focused on money and not enough on people’s needs for my liking.
This doesn’t sit well with Labour voters, as will be evident at the next election.
Did find this, though...
In opposition Labour attacked the Tories for not paying the compo.
In opposition Labour told the WASPI women, ‘vote Labour, get compensation’.
🤷🏼♂️
They didn't make this promise for 2024. Indeed they said there was no money for this explicitly when asked.
6 more years for private pensions to grow, to build savings, to get some benefits of equality finally.
The triple lock is partly funded by this.
The Tory speedup in 2011 was harsh so remember who did it.
We all knew when they privatised water, we’d be swimming in shite’
‘We all knew when they privatised utilities we’d be paying 40 times the cost that anyone in the EU pays’
‘We all knew that when the PO was privatised we wouldn’t get Mail’
Fuck you
@davidwilliamsmp.bsky.social
That women have to work longer to be in step with men, seems right ... why is there a need for compensation?
Who will pay for it .. everyone else. Who will suffer because of it .. children, the young, the disabled, the homeless...
Seems opportunistic 🤔
If the government learns anything from this, it should be that future pension age changes should require a letter to be sent to all affected people when the act is ratified.
Always money available for war.
👎🤢🤢🤢
Show you have a listening heart and a thoughtful mind.
17th December 2024 Women denied their pension for 5 years will not receive compensation.
Starmer knew that it was going to be announced with the loss of 3.6 Million women votes.
see @EuropeanPowell
I’ve never met anyone who was. I didn’t find out until 2 yrs before 60 I wouldn’t get mine till 62. Then suddenly that became 66.
I have been done out of about £50,000
Personally I could ride it but I have many friends & colleagues for whom this caused hardship
These responsibilities continue post 60.
This, & workplace discrimination, causes a gender pay gap which translates into a considerable gender pension gap.
Extending..
Context is everything, Adam (see👇🏻)
Disappointing you ignore it
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9517/
https://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Accompanying-paper-FINAL.pdf
Now it’s worse
No point living an extra few years if it’s spent in a shitty low cost care home being looked after by people to whom you mean nothing
But none of us got adequate warning.
It should have been plastered all over the news when the decision was made.
But it wasn’t because it would have affected how we voted.
(No doubt because it took more into consideration than your personal experience & views)
https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/publications/womens-state-pension-age-our-findings-department-work-and-pensions-communication/background-relating-changes-state-pension-age-women
It's not taxpayer money
We need to get that through to them
Make good on your declared support for pensioners? Nope.
but that's ok, people have got used to their broken promises...
meanwhile, those who feel deceived into voting labour might never vote for them again...
And they had plenty of advance notice.
Both before and after the law was passed.
Did no one else see them?
It must have been on TV too but I didn’t have one then.
And it wasn’t a cliff edge as some are asserting, it was phased in gradually.
We aren’t all sent individual letters about how the budget will affect us.
It could have been afforded on that basis.
It was never levelling up for equality, they way they did it was never equal, it was about the quickest easiest way to fill the coffers with £30bn extra cash
There was little change in gender pay and pension imbalance under Labour.
So,
NO CHANGE for the Unequal Labour Party
One term Labour government being delivered.
The earliest that someone born in the 50s turned 60 was 2010.
That's FIFTEEN YEARS.
And you never thought, in all that time, ' I'll just Google 'what's my pension age'?'
That's on you.
Your responsibility.
Not knowing is their own fault. It's easy to find out.
There really isn't any excuse for not knowing something that's in the public domain. It wasn't a secret.
This was all over the news in the 90s and hard to avoid.
You need to take personal responsibility for knowing your own retirement age. The letter was a courtesy.
The letters were a courtesy and not required by law, as the court case determined.
The one question neither of us asked was whether the pensions agency had the correct information. In my case they did not (1)
Full pension reinstated!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68563795
https://neweconomics.org/2023/11/the-windfall-tax-was-supposed-to-rein-in-fossil-fuel-profits-instead-it-has-saved-corporations-billions
And they'll bleat as one: "Workers should expect pay restraint in these challenging times to prevent inflation ticking up".
Bringing state pension age equality.
More time to save and build private pensions.
Preparing for your own retirement is a personal responsibly.