{"id":449452,"date":"2026-02-02T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449452\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:52:13","slug":"waspi-women-not-going-away-after-pension-compensation-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449452\/","title":{"rendered":"Waspi women &#8216;not going away&#8217; after pension compensation rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2024, a parliamentary ombudsman recommended compensation of between \u00a31,000 and \u00a32,950 each for those affected. However, it could not enforce the payment and the government rejected it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking in the House of Commons, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said on Thursday that the government accepted that &#8220;individual letters about changes to the state pension age could have been sent earlier&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he said &#8220;women did not suffer any direct financial loss from the delay&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simpson said &#8220;the government seems to be looking for every and all excuses not to pay compensation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a question of justice and the money could be found if there was a will to find it,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, a parliamentary ombudsman recommended compensation of between \u00a31,000 and \u00a32,950 each for those affected. However, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-449452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}