Govt considering u-turn on WASPI compensation

Honestly, I was born in 1956 and understand completely how much of a struggle it is for younger people to buy property.

The constant comments about older people not understanding completely undermine your argument. It should not be young against old, it should be decisions made for the general good and giving people who have enough is just not right.

Nothing to suggest that ministers intend to do this, just an MP saying they should reconsider as far as i can see from that report.

No. It’s not. It’s a descriptor of the time period you were born in.

It is around here.

I was born in 1953. The first change to pension age in 1993 was completely fair, it gave around 20 years notice and allowed for pension planning. You’d have had to live under a rock not to be aware of the second change in 2011 but it was fundamentally unfair because it gave virtually no notice to some women born in the early 1950s. The implementation of the changes was an absolute shitshow, it was a whole series of cliff edges - I missed out on four months of pension by being born eight hours too late.

I don’t want or expect compensation and will return it in the very unlikely event that it’s offered but I would like acknowledgement that the 2011 changes gave way too little notice and the implementation was carried out by civil servants who had no idea what they were doing.

I will be furious if they do this.

Maybe reflect on why that is?

Well, the general consensus on here is that the WASPI women shouldn’t get a payout, and some people are getting quite excited that a payout is even being mooted, and how the older generation have had it better than younger generations blah, blah, blah. Calm down! No one is getting a payout anyway I’m quite sure of that. And even if they were, it would take our inefficient government so long to sort it that they’ll all be 6ft under by payout time anyway. But as I said before, I wouldn’t mind getting it, and I daresay those of you frothing wouldn’t turn it down either.

Maybe not in isolation, but it is being used very negatively to say the least in many comments on this thread.

Boomer is not a slur.

I kind of wish I hadn’t opened this thread. By all means and of course it’s necessary to mention age when talking of the Waspi issue is off the scale vitriol and hatred. But the slurs and lumping of all of us “boomers” as selfish rich and property laden and more is pretty disgusting. I know that the next comment will be something like ‘well it’s disgusting their entitlement and we’re paying…”

I am a pensioner in the WASPI cohort. I don't think there should be a payout.

Totally the same as my mum.

She’s worked hard. I don’t deny that. But through various lucky circumstances her and my dad have ended up with 5 (!!!) residential rental properties and one commercial rental property. Plus the family home. They make more in a month than I do in three. But they were still outraged when their winter fuel allowance was cut. Claimed they’d go cold without it. In reality it was because she used the winter fuel allowance to pay for the Christmas food and wanted to do the same last year. I’m sick of the entitlement.

Yet the same generation will really condescendingly say “oh just spend a bit less!”, or “you have to slum it for a while”

my mum missed out on being a waspi by 3 years, but she is definitely part of the boomer generation and she will often say she used to “survive” on only £30 a week after paying her mortgage and bills.

but that £30 would buy food, transport, socialising, everything else. She doesn’t seem to understand that these days £30 isn’t even enough to get you to and from work for a week.

No government, not even one as daft as this one, would u turn on this. There is probably some box that needs ticking that has been missed.

Public authorities are under duties to give conscientious consideration to evidence and representations when taking certain decisions and they can be subject to procedural challenge if it appears an outcome had been pre-judged.

I am sure that this talk of reconsideration is just performative until whatever this new evidence is can be formally dismissed.

I think every single “WASPI” woman should have to stand an explain why they think their payout is more important than the NHS, our schools, and social care. Every single one should be told what their potential payout could fund (NHS treatment, school staffing etc.) and explain why they think it’s better off in their pockets. Every single one should have to explain whether they own their property mortgage free, what their current level of income is, and their lifestyle, and justify it.

expose the greed of this generation for the entire country to see it.

So this and lifting the child cap. Yet we are trying to plug the black hole rather than make it bigger. Bit of a joke really. But the squished middle will pay as always 🥱

Im a boomer and I don't think it should be paid