There’s no need to give £10 billion to people who don’t need it just because they say they weren’t told about something that they were in fact told about.
Even if the government had loads of money available — which they don’t — further enriching the wealthiest age cohort is not something they should do. As things stand, they would need to cut, tax or borrow to fund this. No one should be taken seriously unless they can say which of those things the government should do.
again and again you reveal a level of dishonesty in your commentary that is quite frankly staggering.
As I suspect you well know, this is not just a few women who feel cheated :
The compensation recommendation came in a report from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman earlier this year, which found that the Department for Work and Pensions failed to adequately communicate the changes regarding when women could receive the state pension
The government accepted a finding of maladministration and apologised, but said it could not justify paying compensation.
Jeremy Corbyn never seems to quite grasp the minutia of a situation. Sure it’s not great that it happened but you have to judge how bad the situation was when calculating a response. The government have already said that they accept responsibility and that it was bad, and that there isn’t any money, sorry.
It’s not like they face some major injustice, they were slightly inconvenienced. It’s hardly reformation worthy.
The best outcome for all of this would be that the DWP could marginally improve to be less shit, but realistically I don’t have my hopes up.
I feel like I’m missing something here. The law was changed in 1995, to come in to effect from 2010 onwards.
How is 15 years not enough notice?
Theres an extra detail that is often missed, in 2011 the roll out was accelerated by 4 years and there’s some evidence it may have taken in to 2014 to notify everyone affected so it’s possible you may have been expecting to get a pension in 2016 and with just over a year’s notice find it’s been moved to 2020.
They also increased the age to 66 and now 67 for everyone.
I have more sympathy for those but that’s a much smaller cohort than the 3M figure being reported.
They aren’t telling you everything.
This isn’t a bunch of women moaning. It’s the recommendation made by a government body, based on an investigation into another administrative shitshow :
You’re not missing anything, they don’t have a leg to stand on.
But they can stand on the ombudsman’s report and recommendations:
Which must have escaped your attention amongst your floods of compassion for working people.
The report gives them some leeway, but it’s not exactly the slam dunk victory they’re claiming it is. I’m sure it’s annoying not to be informed by the DWP, but the fact is, they were informed before it happened.
I think I’ll prefer the investigations finding your own. No disrespect intended.
“Women against state pension inequality” getting mad that state pension inequality was removed has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen all day
Like most people they want it to be equal by them getting more. Not them getting less.
They were already getting more, the options were either others get more (which results in them getting less as taxes would increase while gdp decreased) or they get less?
So they get less either way?
Sure, it could’ve been handled better but that doesn’t change the fact they’ve got a stupid name for what they’re campaign for
monica lennon would have been such a better leader than sarwar and i’m sad we’ll never get to see it.
Let’s just abandon retirement and have everyone enjoying the beauty and fulfilment of work until they drop. Bah! Pensions are for the workshy layabouts.
