State Retirement Pensions: Women
Commons · Question 35992 · Tabled 5 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Torsten Bell, 11 Mar 2025
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...