DWP issue NEW update over WASPI compensation coming 'in not too distant future'

A new State Pension age compensation update has been issued for WASPI women. An update over £2,950 payments could be coming in the near future from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Labour Party government.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer indicated that DWP boss Liz Kendall will be giving 1950s-born women a compensation update. WASPI women could hear an update about a compensation plan “in the not too distant future”.

Sir Keir Starmer has told reporters that the Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Liz Kendall will make a statement “on this in the not too distant future”. The Prime Minister said: “The DWP secretary will be making a statement on this in the not too distant future.

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"Obviously it’s a very serious report, and the response will be set out by the DWP Secretary.” Last week, Ms Kendall told the Work and Pensions Committee that she will resolve the issue of State Pension age compensation for WASPI women “as soon as possible”.

The DWP boss said that it is “extremely complicated” and there is “lots of information to go through” but that the UK Government “needs to get it right”. The report stated that “Parliament must urgently identify a mechanism for providing that appropriate remedy” and recommended compensation equivalent to Level four on its banding scale, which is worth between £1,000 and £2,950.

Pensions minister Emma Reynolds MP previously said in an update in the Commons over the battle for WASPI compensation over state pension historic injustices: “The Ombudsman took six years to consider a range of complex cases, and we are looking at their complexity. I was the first Minister in six years to meet representatives of the WASPI campaign.

“We hope to be able to update the House in the coming weeks.”