{"id":270587,"date":"2026-02-02T18:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/270587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:39:17","slug":"waspi-women-not-going-away-after-pension-compensation-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/270587\/","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":270588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,46,266,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-270587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270587","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=270587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}