Written questions

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...