IN FULL: Waspi women's pensions statement in Parliament from Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Watch live as Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride delivers a statement on the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) women’s state pension age report.
00:00 Live stream starts
13:15 Statement from Mel Stride MP, The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Conservative)
22:05 Response from Liz Kendall, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Labour)
29:25 Questions from MPs begin
The ombudsman investigated complaints that, since 1995, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has failed to provide accurate, adequate and timely information about areas of state pension reform.
The 1995 Pensions Act and subsequent legislation raised the state pension age for women born on or after April 6 1950.
The ombudsman has asked Parliament to identify a mechanism for providing appropriate remedy for those who have suffered injustice.
The report issued last week said: “We think this will provide the quickest route to remedy for those who have suffered injustice because of DWP’s maladministration.”
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Where do I begin. First I am sick of ministers talking about these funds as if it was their money. To be very clear every penny they talk about is tax payers money. Secondly why have they reduced NI if they know and understand the burden they have now and in the future to pay pensions. Are they hoping that most pensioners will die quickly after retirement as they have insufficient pension funds? Thirdly the DWP is the least transparent agency I have had to deal with. They will simply not tell the truth to people about pensions. To suggest otherwise is a blatant falsehood. The ombudsman has spoken, the women should be compensated. How hard is that to get your head around minister?
To be honest waspi shouldn't care.they inputted all their life .received about 1% of what today's inputers receive back.they didn't get wtc
Ctc.free nursery.full 1k pm rents paid.dual paternity leave.didn't even now in some cases get equal pay.women in forces same waspi years into 80/90s got no military pension given in retrospectively yet denied under ageism.
On top of that dwp pensions lost half of work tax input.they never gave esa when women in marriage on british terrority abroad ..technically uk .
The Ombudsman is not God, merely a person with an opinion and a toothless figure at that. the money belongs to everyone, including men who had to work 5 years longer than women, is it fair that they should now pay higher taxes to compensate women who have merely been finally put on the same playing field as them?
Well said.dwp fraudsters or we would be on equivalent to eu pension before brexit .we having been coughing up for all eu poor to go in holiday hotel flight pocket money yet uk Denys its frail and disabled vitamins d at same rate.eu poland can now afford to reduce pension age to 60 for all..eu illegal to work more than 35/38hrs per week so less input ...so uk dwp robs pensioners all of them
@@Andrew-tx9jy So any government can break any promise at any time? If this was a pension provided by a third party the scandal would be bigger than the PO. The government are theives and liars. There is nothing else to say!
I was born 1951 I was never made aware I would not get my pension when I was 60. I had to wait another 9 months. I rang the Pension department to ask why I have not got my pension. They told me the government has moved the pension age so I have to wait 9 months. I was never told about this. I have £95 a month less for the last 13 years the government owe me this money and I want it back
I agree. I have been deprived of around £20,000 and I want it back. I worked for 44years and paid all my National Insurance contributions.
For goodness sakes!!
@@doreenhollywood7459 I was not told I would have to work 2 more years until I was 67. I DEMAND £250,000. NOW!!!
I was born 1952 had to wait 3years
You are owed NOTHING. The only ones who have a legitimate claim to any money are the men who had to work five years longer all those years. You, on the other hand, and all those WASPI's out there are merely grifters on the make encouraged by shyster lawyers who are also on the make. The very term WASPI is an oxymoron, the only 'Pension Inequality' was to those men who had to work five years longer all those years, THEY are the ones who are entitled to a payout.
What happened to the money that was originally set aside to pay pensions before the sudden change to wait 6 years longer for the pension?
Like these women my pension age increased from 60 to 65 and then 66. I wonder what jobs these women were doing if any as I was working and was informed of and aware of the increase as were other women I worked with. Nobody has ever mentioned that there are 2 levels of state pension and those on the old rate recieve less than those on the new rate
The Ombudsman has recommended compensation for WASPI women. Debate over. Pay up!
I recommend giving the money to the men who had to work 5 years longer than their female counterparts. Debate over. Pay up!
@@Andrew-tx9jy We'll all be dead / replaced by robots soon anyway meh
@@Andrew-tx9jy Men always knew when they could retire. The date wasn't changed for them.
@@doreenhollywood7459 and what as that got to do with the price of fish? The date was changed to try to bring about some form of equality, just because aligning them with men is a bad equality they don't want it. Tough.
@@Andrew-tx9jy Sorry Andrew, the point was that men had a given date for their retirement pensions and so did women. The date for men didn't change, although I agree it should have. The date for women to retire changed with no notice and I as a single person, had no chance to save/earn enough to be able to afford to retire with enough to live on.
No mention of the pensioners who cannot claim pension credit due to age of partners , or married couples , so discrimination there , for couples , especially vif your partner or wife or husband is a carer , and therefore disqualified from claiming carers allowance if they go to work , again it's discrinstory against the elderly our pensioners , so government as actually saved 7 years state pension money it's been reinvested making more savings too , mens age increased to. 66 , women's went from 60 to 66. It's a disgrace ,many do not even live past 60 years of age. So all that money saved from them. , too , no insurance payout for their families is there ,
Why ask the ombudsman to investigate and come to a decision and not act upon it?
The money grabbing WASPI's and their grasping solicitors asked the Ombudsman to look into it. The decision is just guidance and bad guidance at that.
It's only a complex report when you are trying to find the reason not to pay.
The reason not to pay is that they don't deserve anything. The only ones deserving of a pay-out are the men who had to work 5 years longer than women all those years and were the victims of extraordinary sex discrimination.
If anything men should have been retiring 5 years before women as women live longer. The great wrong has been done to the men who had to watch as women retired then work another 5 years often at more physically demanding work and watch those same women live longer thus getting a far greater share of the pension pot than they ever would. These Waspis have nothing whatsoever to complain about. Oh and they knew all about what was happening it was common knowledge for years and many women have said so. Why should those same men be penalised again by having their taxes raised to pay for this spurious compensation claim?
The UK is a matriarchy. Men had it unfair having to retire 5 years later, but feminists twist to make it seem they had it worse.
@@DrJams Exactly, the squeaky wheel getting all the oil ALL the time. They have FAR more rights than men.
I am single, brought up two children and paid all my contributions thinking I’d receive my state pension at 60. Instead I’ve had to continue working and my taxes have increased. Due to circumstances I only had a very small private pension, but I had to use up that money to get through difficult times. I’m not sure now if I could survive on just a state pension, but feel I do need compensation especially as I would have had over £40,000 by now if I’d been paid rightfully.
Which rock were you living under? Please stop the pretence, everyone knew the pension ages were being raised for women to make them equal to mens, you've lost nothing, just been made equal.
Compensation for being made equal with men? Am I going insane or is it just the world that is?
If the WASPI women are compensated, every man still alive who was born before 6April 1960 must also be compensated for having to work until age of 65/66. Why should women be granted a concession, just because they were born female? I wonder how many men have died without receiving their pension, and why that seems not to matter? Sexism against men is acceptable apparently.
We'll all be replaced by robots soon anyway- so everyone will be retiring early lol I wonder if Ameca is available to be PM. We will either be wiped out or allowed to live on the wealth created by robots for all our wants and needs- hope it's the latter!
Unfortunately all too true.
What a shame that you clearly don’t understand what is going on. It’s not about equality but the lack of time that waspi women had to process the changes & make adjustments for their pension. It was an accelerated implementation of those changes that was wrong.
@@Andrew-tx9jyNo it’s not.
Added to that the men who are the ones who have really lost out here will also have to have their taxes raised to pay for this unfounded claim thus being penalised yet again. Disgusting.
They talk about people in poverty and one who had to sell her house. What about those people who, through no fault of their own, have to go into care homes and sell their homes to fund it. And what about those people who lost jobs during lockdown and haven't been able to get another one since. These WASPI women seem a little bit selfish and entitled. I get that some who are now in poverty because of the changes should get help. But I know several of these women who are all exceptionally well off and they should not be given tax payers money.
You just gave yourself reasons why waspi women should get what was owed. I’ll bet the “exceptionally well off “ worked hard all there lives to afford what they have, going without when younger, when others spent what they had earned. The whole point about waspi women protest wasn’t about equality but the expectation that they retired at 60 years old, which had been decreed in the 1940s. Then the government changed the goalposts, without proper notification, so they couldn’t make plans for a better pension. What was built up when they were younger, could no longer be supported as no money came in. Any savings were used up over the 6 year deficit. Lots were infirm & couldn’t work longer & Covid was a leveller in the death rates as many died in those care homes. Some had sold their homes to pay for their care too. Most people start to decline in health from around 40 years. Women’s health declines specifically after the menopause. Add in disease & it’s not surprising that many waspi women, 200,000 odd didn’t get a pension at all. The government should be the focus of your anger, not the waspi women. The government makes the rules & will screw you every which way over your pension, both men & women. This has now become very divisive blaming the waspi women for all the pension changes & in doing that the focus shifts away from the real cause of the problem, the government.
@@Dana-ml7sy it's their, not there. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with how this was handled initially but please don't think that everyone over 60 was thrown into poverty. Many of my friends are in the WASPI age group and are exceptionally well off. And they did not work hard all their lives, they got lucky or have well off husbands. Many of these WASPI women won't have worked much at all. Not all, but some. When I see the poorest people on Easter Saturday queueing for a bag of free food from the food bank it does make me very angry with the WASPI women.
@@carolynclare3985 They're greedy, selfish and totally undeserving.