WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is piling on the pressure on MPs as they continue to fight for DWP compensation. The campaign group is waiting for the DWP to issue a fresh decision on what remedy to offer the generation of 1950s-born women impacted by their state pension age rising from 60 to 65 and then 66.

WASPI and other campaign groups claim the women were not properly informed that their state pension age would be going up, with many unaware right up to the last minute. In a decision issued in December 2024, the DWP accepted that letters should have been sent out to the women sooner and apologised for this.

But ministers argued that it would have made little difference to write to the women sooner and that most women did know of the change, and said there would be no compensation. This was despite their watchdog, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, previously looking into the case and recommending payouts ranging from £1,000 to £2,950.

WASPI applied for a judicial review of the DWP’s decision, which was set to be considered at the High Court in December 2025, but then, at the last minute, the DWP said it would retract its original decision and retake it again, as there was new evidence to consider.

Ministers said they would issue the new decision within three months of the out-of-court settlement. As the campaigners await the fresh decision, they have urged their supporters to write to their MPs to urge them to put pressure on the Government to finally provide compensation.

WASPI has set a target to send out a million messages to MPs to make the case for the women to get payouts. WASPI campaign chair Angela Madden said: “Already, every MP has had emails from WASPI supporters. Some MPs have already had over 100 emails, so that’s looking like it might be a successful strategy.

“It’s just to pile the pressure on prior to Pat McFadden [the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions] coming back to the House with whatever his enquiry has come up with.”

She urged any supporters who are not WASPI women themselves to write to their MPs. The campaign’s surveys have found 70 percent of the general public support the campaign.

Ms Madden said: “We want to convert that support into those people actually emailing their MPs and saying, I want you to tell the Secretary of State to pay this compensation to these women. They deserve it.

“The Ombudsman has already done the enquiry. I think it will be just a bit more powerful. They are used to us writing to them.”

In a court document shared by WASPI detailing the settlement with the DWP that halted the judicial review, the DWP said that Mr McFadden would “approach all aspects of the decision with a fresh and open mind”.

The settlement also set out that he will “use his best endeavours to take and communicate a new decision in response to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s investigation within three months of the date of this order”. The date of the order was December 3, meaning that based on this date, the new decision will need to be issued by March 3.

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