Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 35992

State Retirement Pensions: Women

Tabled: 5 March 2025

Answered: 11 March 2025

Question

Zöe Franklin

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will reconsider its decision not to provide compensation to women born in the 1950s and 1960s following the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s recommendation that those affec

Answer

Torsten Bell

We carefully considered the Ombudsman’s findings to ensure our decision was fair and based on the evidence. We have accepted the Ombudsman’s finding that there was a 28-month delay in sending out letters and for this we have apologised. However, we do not...

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