Why the shabbily treated 50’s women pensioners must go on the offensive and...
CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM Today the One Voice BackTo60 group published a report by me that they commissioned on the case for lowering the pension age from 65, to going on 66, to 60. The idea is...
View ArticleTaking the 50s women protest to the doors of the Department of Work and Pensions
CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM The campaign for justice for the 50s women denied their pensions has come home to the Department of Work and Pensions. A group representing all shades of opinion demanding...
View ArticleThe day the women fighting for their pensions brought Westminster to a...
CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM A decade ago this would have made headline news. Hundreds of 50s women deprived of their pensions until they reach 65 or 66 blocked the road in Parliament Square for over an...
View ArticleOn Byline Times: BackTo60 fight on after pension age judicial review dismissed
I have written an article for Byline Times on the judgement and the next steps to fight it. Byline Times are also committed to following the story. The article is here.
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Permission to Appeal lodged in High Court for 3.8 million 50s born women who...
Going back to the High Court for permission to appeal The BackTo60 organisation which represents 3.8 million women who face up to six years delay to get their pension has lodged its application for...
View ArticleJohn McDonnell explains the Labour pensions offer to 50swomen over more than...
John McDonnell with Azhar Ali, Labour candidate for Pendle, explaining the offer to some of the women For those who are following the fight by all groups to get compensation for 3.8 million women who...
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A scandalous cover up: The DWP and Ombudsman let down millions of people...
Steve Webb, former Liberal Democrat minister, who piloted the change in pension law in 2014 Only two people given a total of £1250 compensation out of millions who lost out This is a complicated story...
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Exclusive: Parliamentary Ombudsman stalls maladministration investigation for...
Robert Behrens, Parliamentary Ombudsman Robert Behrens, the Parliamentary Ombudsman, has halted his maladministration investigation until at least the end of next month leaving 3.8 million women who...
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Exclusive: Leaked Parliamentary Ombudsman report blames 50s Women for not...
It says the 3.8 million affected by the six year delay can’t blame DWP maladministration for their financial losses and bad health Rob Behrens Parliamentary Ombudsman Pic credit PHSO The second stage...
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WASPI finally issues a statement on the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s report –...
Reaction from a 50s woman to the first report of the Ombudsman Waspi, one of the organisations seeking compensation for women born in the 1950s, has finally broken its silence on the second stage of...
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Labour Conference: WASPI promise £10,000 minimum compensation for 3.6 million...
WASPI held a fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Liverpool this week. The organisation is campaigning to end women’s state pension equality and wants women born in the 1950s s to be compensated...
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That confidential Ombudsman’s report on 50swomen pensions summary in full:...
Rob Behrens, Parliamentary Ombudsman My reporting and coverage of the confidential provisional Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Report into the maladministration has caused considerable controversy...
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Exclusive Updated: Betrayal – Parliamentary Ombudsman dumps on 3.6 million...
Rob Behrens -Parliamentary Ombudsman Leaked document now published in full says nearly all not to get one penny compensation – despite his finding of partial maladministration – and WASPI appears to...
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50s women pensions: Will rival attempts to speed up compensation for the 3.6...
Royal Courts of Justice While I have been away there have been significant developments in the long battle to get justice for the 50swomen who lost tens of thousands of pounds through...
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50s women: Waspi getting nowhere with the Parliamentary Ombudsman who...
Rob Behrens, Parliamentary Commissioner to stand down in March. Promise of an early resolution for the £3.6 million 50s born women to get compensation for their delayed pensions appear to have been...
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Dr Jocelynne Scutt on why mediation is the only legal way forward to solve...
Davina Lloyd interviews Dr Jocelynne Scutt, author of the groundbreaking Judge’s report on the plight of 1950s women who faced a six year delay in getting their pensions Meanwhile Rob Behrens, the...
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Exclusive: Parliamentary Ombudsman dodges recommending any maladministration...
Rob Behrens, Parliamentary Ombudsman Pic Credit: PHSO website Ombudsman capitulates to DWP intransigence NOT to pay a penny and leaves it to MPs to decide In what must be the most extraordinary...
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Exclusive: DWP paper says paying any maladministration compensation to 3.5...
Entire DWP submission to Ombudsman on women’s right to pension compensation leaked to this blog All 3.5 million 50s born women including the six “test case” complainants should get no compensation...
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Exclusive:Rishi Sunak delays appointment of new Parliamentary Ombudsman and...
Sir Alex Allan, board member of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. Pic credit: BBC Email from Sir Alex Allan revealing problem removed from Parliamentary website after I made a press...
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