{"id":134526,"date":"2025-11-15T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/134526\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:05:28","slug":"waspi-pensions-compensation-rethink-is-a-delaying-tactic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/134526\/","title":{"rendered":"Waspi pensions compensation rethink is a &#8216;delaying&#8217; tactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A document was not shown to Liz Kendall, who was the work and pensions secretary at the time the decision was made not to offer compensation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c709y7ln5zro\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will now need to be considered,<\/a> the government said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Current Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden told the Commons earlier this week that it would not automatically lead to compensation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We just think that they&#8217;re delaying what&#8217;s happening at the High Court,&#8221; Ms Elkinton, 68, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002lmp3\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Lancashire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The judge is going to look at things again and his recommendation could mean that they have to do another review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Early last year, a parliamentary ombudsman recommended compensation of between \u00a31,000 and \u00a32,950 for women affected by the government&#8217;s decision to increase the state pension age from 60 to 66.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Waspi campaign had called for payments of at least \u00a310,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A document was not shown to Liz Kendall, who was the work and pensions secretary at the time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":["post-134526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}