Waspi runs towards a £ 75K goal to launch a legal battle for compensation

Activists urge the government to pay compensation for changes in the pension age

A Waspi fund collector to pay a legal fight against the government’s refusal to pay compensation is to run towards its objective of £ 75,000.

Women’s activists against the inequality of state pensions today (Monday, February 24) said they had sent a “letter before the action” to the Department of Labor and Pensions Warning of the procedures of the Superior Court.

Although there is still a month, the fundraising campaign had raised £ 69,000 at the time this was published. He points out that additional “important funds” would be needed as the case moves through the legal process.

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Waspi said: “After years of denial and evasion, the government has accepted that women born in the 1950 injustice.

However, Waspi admits that even a legal victory does not necessarily mean that compensation is granted.

He said: “No case will surely succeed, but if the court agrees with us and our legal team that the government’s decision is legally defective, the government would need to reconsider and make a new and legal decision.

“That does not mean that compensation would be required to pay, but it would be demonstrated that a key part of the current base to deny compensation is legally defective and illegal.

“If we win, the government would have to withdraw its decision to reject the discovery of the Ombudsman about injustice and their decision not to compensate women born in the 1950s.

“I would have to leave and think again and make a new and legal decision about whether women born in the 1950s have suffered an injustice and how to provide them with a remedy.

“To succeed in the judicial review does not mean that the government needs to provide compensation, but would require them to think again and eliminate the central arguments on which the government is currently based to reject compensation.

“To succeed in the judicial review is also important to claim the findings of the Ombudsman that the Government was not only guilty of poor administration, but also caused injustice to millions of women.”

A government spokesman said: “We accept the discovery of the Ombudsman of Mala administration and we have apologized for having a 28 -month delay in writing to women born in the 1950s.

“However, the evidence showed that only one in four people remembered having read and having received letters that they did not expect and that by 2006, 90 percent of women born in the 1950s knew that the state pension age was changing.

“The previous letters would not have affected this. For these and other reasons, the government cannot justify paying a compensation scheme of £ 10.5 billion at the expense of the taxpayer.”

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