AIBU in thinking the government have made the correct decision not to blanket pay all WASPI women £3k? This goes against the Ombudsman recommendations to pay between £1k-3k to every WASPI women.

What about my dad (and millions more) who had to work five years longer than my mum - in a dangerous, cold, outdoors manual job - just because he was a man. It’s unfortunate that a few people didn’t pay attention to the news but the country can’t afford ten billion quid to ‘compensate’ them for that.

If the letter was binned that's fine but it should have been sent. Any pension provider would have communicated a similar change in t&c

I agree with the decision, but then I don’t think the Ombudsman made the right call in the first place.

I have a lot of sympathy for the women (and men) who had their pension age raised from 65 to 66 with very limited notice but the increase in women’s pension age was communicated everywhere at the time, and if some women hadn’t been living under a rock they would have had plenty of time to plan.

The WASPI campaign also seem to completely ignore (or perhaps don’t care) that it’s not just their age group affected by the increase in pension age.

So true. I always roll my eyes at the "women didn't work" comments too. So many people can't see outside their own upbringing.

But we're talking about people who know stuff ( or don't) before they make certain decisions.

Being a woman still in my 50s - just - I had my retirement age pushed up from 60 to 65 back in the 1990s, (because I was born after 1960.) It was pushed up to 66 a few years later..

So I am struggling to care about the WASPI women. Especially as, in the late 1990s - several women at work who were several years older than me, laughed at me, when I was told I had to work to 65. (They only had to work til 60 because they were born before 1960.)

They stopped laughing when it all changed, and they had to work to the same age as me. (I started laughed.)

As I said, I'm struggling to care about them.

This is just unpleasant. Like most generations there are haves and have lots. The notion that all women of a particular demographic are living it up and care nothing for anyone else is really offensive.

This is it, exactly.

They did make an error, letters were not forwarded, the whole point is women DID NOT know, certainly those that where first in line to be affected, those born in the late 50s where a bit better informed and had more chance to do something

not sending letters as they should have done is an ERROR

Loosing your job is a lot worse than having a pension issue

How much will that cost in total?

WASPI women living up to the reputation of being the most entitled generation. They would literally see their grandchildren go to falling down schools if it means another cruise.

Complaining about getting better circumstances than their own children. It's insane.

Then why are we paying out far greater sums ( individually) to gay service personnel.who definitely knew the rules when they joined up?

@EmmaMaria Not sure about you "dear", but not being middle class my mother and grandmothers always worked. Home maker was not a luxury afforded to working class women.

My mum is older than these women, 85 now and not from privilege, from a working class background, worked all her life apart from when I was very little and knew exactly what her pension entitlement would be and when she would get it.

In fact if anything she was disadvantaged by rule changes allowing people to claim more pension when they had not worked for so many years when she always worked and paid in extra to make sure she had paid in enough to get the full pension. Other people had not paid in as much and now get the full pension.

I'm 20 years off state pension age and fully expect them to move the goalposts or get rid of it altogether by the time I get there.

Would be fucking cheeky to pay out 10 BN when today’s youth won’t be retiring until their 70s.
The correct decision. Ignorance is no defence. I don’t get a letter each time the government fucks me over.

I actually think this is the right decision.

So much extra burden on the younger folks already.

The luxury of working? Poorer women have always worked, alongside raising a family.

I agree with this decision.

Now I have just heard it all - on MumsNet FFS. Women who raised children and kept homes "did not work for a lot of their lives"??? Those are your mothers and grandmothers you are speaking about and you want to suggest that they were lazy gits or kept women? Nothing screams that this site is a bastion of middle-class women than that comment alone.

BTW - I pay taxes dear, so it isn't just "current workers" who would fund the compensation that has been recommended by an ombudsmans independant review.

Some of these women may not have known - been living under a rock - but many did know.
It is not sensible to pay out for everyone in the relevant age group just because some of them didn't know.

I don't think we should be paying people compensation for taking no interest in the news for decades.

Tough one. It's really poor to have an Ombudsman and then ignore their recommendations. Yet paying out £10 billion when public services are on their knees absolutely sucks for everyone.

Probably I think they've got it right. The Tories are guilty of maladministration for not paying any of these massive compensation bills during their tenure, as PPs have mentioned.

That's very sad, but it could have been avoided if the person had taken responsibility for her own financial future by informing herself better or getting her own job/pension/annuity.

I'm a WASPI and quite happy with the decision.

I do have an issue with Amazon - so I don't use them. I do not use nail bars or go to cash car washes (because they are often associated with trafficking), and I have never found any need to attend a barbers shop. So you may not think so, but you are wrong - I do. I also avoid using companies associated with child labour. I may not always know the misdeeds of every service that I use, but where I do then I try to do something about it, no matter how small. It's a known fact that Amazon do not "pay their way" and avoid legitmate tax claims. I am in favour of all the tax avoidance loopholes being closed. You are in favour of tax avoidance then?

@EmmaMaria so people who did not work for a lot of their adult life are pissed off at not being funded by current workers to get their pensions earlier? Fuck that frankly.