Retired Living
back in my 'home' Town
Carer for Hubby
#Dementia
Born 1955 Robbed of 6 Years
#StatePension
Want FULL compensation/Justice for ALL
#50swomen
So Today I'm celebrating my 69th Birthday 😊 🥂🎂
🎼🎵Happy Birthday to me..🎵 Happy Birthday to me...🎼 🎵 Happy Birthday Dear Ros..🎼🎵 Happy Birthday to me🎵 🎼
🎂 🎁🎈🎉🥳🎊🥂
Another year gone without resolution for
#50sWomen
for
#StatePensionAge
injustice...
5 hrs & still waiting
#ambulance
Mum 96 has fallen in bathroom Not priority it seems as she can 'still breathe' Told to 'wee' into towel on floor
Is this what we have to accept for our loved ones who worked from 14 & paid into system
@BorisJohnson
#whereisthedignity
#NHS
#care
So
@BBCNews
You can report on Russian protest against State Pension Reforms yet ignore our own
#1950swomen
who are campaigning for their own justice after millions of women have been left destitute after 6 year increases imposes without proper due notice.
UPDATE: Papers now served on Mel Stride Sec State for W & Pens & DWP for acting unreasonably refusing to agree to mediation over issue of 6yr delay
#50sWomen
pensions
Ministry will now have 21 days to file a response & then case will have to go to court
Mishandling of decision to raise
#StatePensionAge
from 60 to 65 & subsequently to 66 resulted in many women’s retirement plans being ripped up & has left many facing financial hardship mental & physical ill health ...
#50sWomen
"This week former Tory leader William Hague argued triple lock is “unsustainable” yet as an unelected Lord he was entitled to sit for one day in that House & earn more than best-paid state pensioner receives every 12 days.
Lords’ allowance is untaxed"
Had a treat today
Had my hair cut and coloured
Step daughter looked after hubby (her dad) and our dog Max
Feel so much better for a couple hours to myself
Being an unpaid
#Dementia
carer 24/ 7 is very hard
#50sWomen
As one of complainants and almost 8 years since writing that 1st complaint letter having lost 6 years SP due to DWP incompetence in communication..
the derisory PHSO recommendation adds insult to injury to myself and all
#50sWomen
affected by this injustice
@WASPI_Campaign
The Ombudsman WASPI report acknowledges DWP failings.
But recommended compensation of £1000 - £2950 will be scant consolation for women who were plunged into poverty through no fault of their own.
As an MP I will push for the highest possible award.
#WASPI
#50swomen
Why am I seeing all this tension between
#50sWomen
We are just 3 wks away from best chance we have of getting justice for all 3.8m of us
Leave to appeal was granted on ALL grounds & in my book we should ALL be fully supporting
#BackTo60
who have got us here 👏
#fullrestitution
A head teacher has sent parents brutally honest letter warning them that social distancing in primary schools is impossible
Head of St George's C of E Primary School Sheerness Kent said he'd rather his pupils retake year again than let one of them die
#SundayMorning
#foodforthought
A woman born in 1950 will have received her pension in 2010. I was born 5 years later in 1955 but will receive my pension not 5 yrs later as expected..... but 11 long years after her in 2021 and losing way over £40k of pension income
#BackTo60
Its Mums 96th Birthday today
#GeneralElection2019
Its been a tough year for her healthwise & I didn't think she'd make this milestone
Her determination & 'strength of character' has got her through ❤
I'm a
#50sWomen
& love her to bits for supporting me & voting
@UKLabour
🎥 At
@CommonsWorkPen
, I questioned the Pensions Minister about the PHSO's ongoing investigation into the malpractice of
@DWP
in respect of 1950s women.
❌No timescale
❌No answers
❌No justice
Westminster isn't working.
Prime Minister
@RishiSunak
has chosen not to even dignify
#50sWomen
with a response instead asking a junior minister to reply on his behalf and to refuse a meeting
#WASPI
It is over 2 months since High Court made the order to quash
@PHSOmbudsman
Stage 2
#WASPI
#50sWomen
report because of legal errors that were dentified – errors (which the Ombudsman accepts he made )
How much longer before he produces a new report and proposal for remedy ?
I dont think I or many
#50sWomen
will be "celebrating" following today's report 🤔
Derisory monetry sums go nowhere near to a acceptable level to bring justice to the millions affected
@WASPI_Campaign
CEDAWinLAW has instructed Professor John Cooper KC 'One of the Top 10 influential lawyers in UK' 25 Bedford Row via David Greene Senior Partner Edwin Coe to represent all
#50sWomen
in Group Class Action against Secretary of State for Work & Pensions
Pensions Minister needs to face up to the fact that
#50sWomen
have been denied what is rightfully theirs through DWP errors
How many more years must we wait for compensation while they continue to ignore proven injustice
As a result of DWP errors, WASPI women are facing poverty and must get compensation. I have been working with
@WASPI_Campaign
to try and achieve this, and I hope that by securing a meeting with the Pensions Minister, next steps will be secured.
There are 166 seats where the number of WASPI
#50sWomen
is larger than the MP's majority which means their votes could be decisive when Britain goes to the polls
@DailyMirror
#GeneralElection2024
Wow
Pretty damning & insulting suggestion by DWP that
#50sWomen
could make fraudulent claims
Presumably this 'leaked' submission from DWP would have been written in response to 1st draft 2nd Stage Ombudsman report
thus deemed legally flawed
"People well into their 60s should not have to apply for Universal Credit use food banks or sell their homes just so they can enjoy a basic standard of living in later life"
@MelJStride
@PHSOmbudsman
#50sWomen
Almost 39K have signed petition started by Dr Mona Kamal Ahmed an NHS psychiatrist against ex-Secretary of State Work & Pensions Iain Duncan Smith receiving knighthood after it was announced that he has been given accolade in NY Hons list
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
Last week
#WASPI
and two of its solicitors met with the
@PHSOmbudsman
team to raise concerns about the length of time it is taking to reconsider and rewrite his Stage 2 Report on the
#50sWomen
injustices caused by DWP
#maladministration
Read update ⏬️
I spoke up for
@WASPI_Campaign
women today to demand justice. They were treated appallingly with result many have bern forced into hardship because government stole their pension rights from them. As the only Shadow Chancellor to offer a scheme I urged urgent action.
Just asked my youngest daughter to share
#BackTo60
crowdfund on her FB page
This is what she wrote WITHOUT any prompting from me
She is 32 a marketing exec & has a wide circle of friends
Hoping it helps raise awareness of
#50sWomen
injustice too
It is with great sadness that I tell you that my amazing Mum whom I loved so much has passed away peacefully in the early hours of this morning 😥
God bless her 💔
RIP Mum 1923 - 2020
#budget2018
#1950swomen
#backto60
Labour MPs loudly applauded in the chamber and some even stood to show their support.
Around 3.9 million
#1950women
have been forced to wait up to an extra six years to get their pension
"One for
@ITV
to work on
3.6 million
#50sWomen
affected by proven
#DWP
maladministration Loss of homes savings emotional distress & one woman dying every 13 minutes as we wait for compensation We have case study after case study ready to go
#WASPI
Mum had a fall in the middle of last night She managed to crawl to the phone & alerted my sister who called for an ambulance Shes 95
It failed to turn up after 6 hrs but luckily my bro in law managed with the help of 2 workman who were nearby in the building to pick her up
#NHS
Commitments to provide
#StatePension
at 60 for women were made in 50s & have now been broken
As all
#50sWomen
involved have paid vast sums into NI system over that time technically delayed paymt pensions represents embezzlement
This is Civil Rights abuse
"Perhaps help for those who can demonstrate hardship caused by delay possibly means-tested basis"
"Alternatively claim system for women to explain how they have lost out "
@rosaltmann
How unfair is this !
Why should
#50sWomen
be put through more stress ?
Labour
@KateOsborneMP
Osborne has called on the UK Government to “urgently put forward a compensation package” for women born in the 1950s who have been affected by changes to their
#StatePensionAge
#50sWomen
“They were our mums, they were our grandmothers… to be treated like this is an absolute scandal” says Labour special adviser
@ayeshahazarika
.
It comes as a report found women born in the 1950s are owed compensation due to retirement age increases.
🔗
Lawyers for
@CEDAWinLAW
group fighting for equality for all women have now drawn up papers to take
@MelJStride
work & pensions secretary to high court over his failure to agree to any mediation to sort out 7yr running
#50swomen
pensions issue
@davidhencke
Overwhelmed by all your kind messages Hubby back home now Paramedics and Hospital were excellent ! He was monitored all night has had a CT scan & has been given an O/P appt for tomor am (yes Saturday) for further tests an MRI & 72hr heart monitor tape
God bless our
#NHS
The government's failure to compensate the 3.8 million
#WASPI
women is a disgrace. They were given the bombshell news that their state pension age was going to increase from 60 to 66, just as they were about to retire when it was too late to properly financially plan.
#50sWomen
CEDAWInLAW legal team has issued at court an Application for Judicial Review
Lodging of papers will mean DWP will have to lodge a response breaking their silence over the matter and their refusal to contemplate any mediation over the matter
"We’re living in an Orwellian dystopia ‘led’ by an absentee PM of Churchillian delusion who signed up for the glory not the gory
A man devoid of integrity insight & ideas a man totally lacking the appetite application or ability to perform the job..."
"Frank Field, chairman of the work and pensions committee, said
#1950swomen
be able to take a reduced state pension at an earlier age"
How many more times do we have to say it
***WE DO NOT WANT A REDUCED PENSION FOR LIFE***
#KnowYourWorth
#BackTo60
Heartening to see so many tweets from
#MPs
who are also shocked saddened & disbelieving of today's devastating judgement from the Court which has effectively thrown this back to Govt to resolve
We must be encouraged by their support & fight on
#EDM2296
#50sWomen
#BackTo60
🎉Happy birthday🎉to my amazing kind caring gentle & loving husband who never asks for anything but deserves best of everything♥️
He has supported me emotionally & financially for the last 4 years as a
#50sWomen
robbed of independence dignity self respect & 6 years
#statepension
Tory MP
@timloughton
who used to co-chair APPG
#50sWomen
issue said
"I think
#DWP
should be ashamed
Government has got to take note"
"Ombudsman clearly found DWP were guilty of maladministration that they’ve not properly communicated these changes "
#MichaelMansfield
argued that if aim was to reduce Govnt spending
cost of such savings should not be “on the shoulders” of what he called the “bridgehead” generation of
#50sWomen
but “borne in a non-discriminatory way” between all generations
I dont like to see anyone cry but how can I have empathy when your Govt policies have caused so much suffering & Poverty
3.8m
#50sWomen
are crying too deprived of their dignity self respect & 6 years
#StatePension
Maybe if you'd showed us more compassion I'd feel different
Moving to be near family Planned to do after I retired at 60 not 66 but failed by
@DWP
#maladministration
6/7years has made so much difference Harder to cope &
hubby has developed
#dementia
over that time
He can't help me
As
#50sWoman
been robbed of c£50k & my future
#injustice
"The injustices that have been felt for example by
#WASPI
#50sWomen
who have been robbed of their pension"
"Do we really need
'WASPI The Movie'
to force Westminster to rethink its stance on this injustice?"
@MhairiBlack
Wonder how many
#50Women
would have read financial tmes at the breakfast table in 1995 ?
In my case age 40 I was juggling demands of the school run for my 2 youngest a part time job & caring for a disabled husband
If I had read this
"In 2020" wouldn't have applied to me ....
Letters that were sent far too late anyway to inform
#50sWomen
of the 1st major change to
#StatePensionAge
in 70 years
Adverts were a joke and did not advise of changes
@KrisGibson13
@SusanFo26109110
The DWP have admitted to only sending 12,000 letters and that they have no record of who received them. They thought full page ads showing dogs in the broadsheets and The Lady would cover their asses!
When
#50swomen
started careers women were encouraged to rely on men for their finances while supporting husbands children & ageing parents
Ombudsman & National Audit Office are quite clear saying communication
#StatePension
changes were woefully lacking
#50sWomen
'DID THE RIGHT THING'
We worked from Age 15
We payed into system which promised
#StatePension
at 60
We had no childcare provided
We took time to bring up next generation
We had no chance to access private pensions
Our 'REWARD' ?
Robbed of 6 YEARS SP
c £40-50k
"I think we should be a country where people save for their social care costs" - Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt outlines his policy on social care, adding that people should be rewarded for "doing the right thing"
[tap to expand]
EXCL: A *long*-delayed report is expected tomorrow on compensation for “WASPI women” who had their state pension age pushed back.
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman could hand a major spending headache to the Tories and Labour just before an election…
🧵
After 38 days of protests & French Prime Minister has offered to temporarily withdraw plans for controversial pension reforms
Edouard Philippe said he would be willing to pull back plans to raise age at which citizens would receive full pension benefits
A 65-year-old woman affected by the increase in
#statepensionage
shared her story stating "
Both my sister and I were born in the 1950s and saw our retirement plans completely shattered due to the state pension age debacle "
Results of new research from
#WASPI
revealed that 61 % women reported a range of lost employment opportunities saying they had retired or reduced their working hours expecting to retire at 60
@PHSOmbudsman
#50sWomen
#maladministration
UK ranks as one of the worst countries to live in the world
Britain came in at 62nd place out of 64 countries for personal happiness UK also scored low for quality of life, thanks to the current political climate.....
"Polls show over 65s are the only age-group currently backing the Tories with 36 per cent saying they would vote Conservative if an election was held tomorrow while 21 per cent would support Labour according to a recent YouGov survey"
#50sWomen
Received 2nd letter from DWP in a week repeating info for start of my long awaited
#statepension
& also advising me of £4.20 week increase from April
Seems they can "talk to me" now but couldn't write to me in 1995 about 6 YEAR delay
#50sWomen
#fullrestitution
#BackTo60
Good letter
With maladministration identified we need proper commitment to remedy injustice
#GeneralElectionNow
Nothing 'fair or fast' in already waiting over 5 years for the Ombudsman to conclude his investigation while we continue to wait with no end in sight for
#50sWomen
John Cooper KC
This is an important challenge for so many
#50swomen
in this country
The weight of evidence indicates a grave injustice
We will robustly represent their interests as we move 4ward with assistance of 1st class legal team
via
@davidhencke
Congratulations should go to the individual
#50sWomen
who have tirelessly spent years on individual complaints first to DWP then ICE and finally
@PHSOmbudsman
Their perseverance which has resulted in proven
#maladministration
which now needs to be fully reimbursed
#BackTo60
Congratulations to
@WASPI_Campaign
, who have been vindicated by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's finding today of major failings in how the DWP communicated changes to the state pension age to women born in the 1950s.
The Government now needs to right this wrong.
Labour will extend Pension Credit to 100's of 1000's of
'hardest hit'
#50sWomen
Define hardest hit ?
We've all been 'hit' many of us by 6 ex yrs losing £40/50K
I want MY
#StatePension
that I ALONE paid in for
not 'pension credit' that will be means tested with my partner
Have just made a 2nd donation
This crowdjustice appeal is for all
#50sWomen
Am totally disillusioned with
#Waspi
PHSO process after 8 yrs of trying to get
#justice
Why not make pledge to support this
#classaction
legal process & get us one step closer
60 year old will get just 82p an hour for 80 hours a week caring for his severely disabled son after
@HMRCgovuk
takes away £16.38 from his £81.90 a week carers allowance when it rises in April. His wife gets nothing for her 80 hours as she is a pensioner
Women are dying..
“I volunteer at a local foodbank & we are seeing more & more women in their 60's having to come to us just to get something to eat We’re here to remind Govt that we will not be silenced & will not be ignored"
Elizabeth
#Stroud
#waspi
"This along with
#DirectDiscrimination
against
#50sWomen
caused by the absence of a level playing field with men for that generation of women to pay national insurance contributions is behind this long battle with the government"
@davidhencke
We have written to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions,
@MelJStride
, to ask for an update on the Government's response to
@PHSOmbudsman
's report into the communication of state pension age changes to women born in the 1950s.
Checked O/H's NI record & he rec'd 5 yrs MEN ONLY credits from 60-65 he wasn't working & received full
#statepension
2013
I was 60 in 2015 not working but received NO such credits
I could have rec'd 3 yrs credits up to 2018 when scheme ended
Instead
#50sWomen
had to pay
Women are typically retiring with just a third of a man's pension according to a new report thanks to the gender pay gap and other factors
"moving women’s retirement age up from 60 to 65 disadvantaged those born in the 1950s"
#50sWomen
#WASPI
Thank you for all your kind messages following the loss of my dear Mum ❤
I do hope I have seen them all but please know that I do appreciate each and every one X
As full time carer to hubby apparently I only have an 'underlying entitlement' to Carers Allowance because my
#StatePension
is classed as another 'BENEFIT' & is more than the amount payable
Does seem unfair when we've paid into this 'BENEFIT' all our working lives
#50sWomen
Senior Labour figures are preparing to improve offer to compensate 3.8 million
#50sWomen
facing hardship by having to wait up to six years for their pensions
John McDonnell shadow chancellor indicated party is now looking at new offer as GE approaches
"A FOI request seen by
@dailyexpressuk
indicates that women born after April 5, 1953 were not notified about the changes in 1995 & were 1st notified of changes to their pension in 2012" This was far too late to tell me when I'm expecting to receive my SP at 60 in 2015
#Backto60
Looking to move hard when you're
#50sWoman
who waited 6 years for
#StatePension
& this opportunity
So much income lost over last 6 years
6 years older & less able to cope physically & mentally
6 years older & can never recoup time lost with family
#fullrestitution
#EDM906
"More than half of women (55%) also said their economic position has worsened in the last six months"
The longer this injustice continues without recompense the more
#50sWomen
will continue to suffer the devastating impact from State Pension Age changes
Baroness Altmann
‘Do they really think it is right that Britain with lowest
#StatePension
in world can afford to cut taxes on banks & alcohol but can’t keep promises to protect
#Pensioners
?’
"The bad news for the Tory Govt is that these women have not gone away and it is possible that the judicial review, with Michael Mansfield QC representing them, will lead to another costly and humiliating defeat for Mrs May in the law courts"
#Backto60