Waspi

Catherine21
Catherine21 Posts: 4,976 Championing
in Everyday life

Goverment wouldn't listen to waspi women so been tsken to court the determination these ladies have we have to be the same even if it's email our MPs every week I've sent mine about ten emails pertitions I did say do you think the people at the top care for thier own mps I said do the right thing

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  • Jellihead
    Jellihead Online Community Member Posts: 67 Empowering

    @Catherine21

    I'm a Waspi woman. I have a letter in response to my request as to how much my pension was going to be as I had just been made redundant in Jan 2009. Four months later the reply was that it was accurate at then but changes were being made by government so they didn't know when I would retire.

    It should have been 2014 but changed, eventually to 2019. In 2015 I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and had a bilateral hip operation. They didn't factor that in, neither did I?

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,976 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/996658#Comment_996658

    I'm so sorry about that did I read correct that next step for all you amazing determined waspi women will be court it's vile you been waiting since 2014 how are you now do you think this will ever be resolved one mp asked Liz kendell do you feel bad for the waspi women she stood up and said NO I was like wow if I didn't see with my own eyes I wouldn't have thought is was so spiteful

  • bookrabbit
    bookrabbit Online Community Member Posts: 220 Empowering

    I should have been able to retire this year if they hadn't raised it. I have seven extra years of being told I am skiving. I am not sure why the waspi women who lost less retirement time are more deserving. I think the whole concept was wrong. It's all very well for people who stay fit but those of us who don't are the worst affected. A

  • Annabelle26
    Annabelle26 Scope Member Posts: 111 Empowering

    The current Government seems to hate people like me. Firstly I am a Waspie woman so I seem to be in the one group who will not get compensation (at the present moment) although they seem to be willing to pay compensation to other groups like the Blood issues Group - which I do not mind about. Secondly I am a Pensioner who has lost her Fuel Allowance because I am over the limit for Pension Credit & now they are going to fiddle about with PIP. In spite of having a DLA lifetime award I still had to reapply for PIP in 2018 & because of a highly inaccurate report which basically said I was not disabled I did not get it. The biggest laugh was I apparently had a normal gate! (examiners spelling). As I was born with mild CP & my right leg shorter than the left people that know me know about my funny walk, I had to go to a tribunal to get it back.

  • Jellihead
    Jellihead Online Community Member Posts: 67 Empowering

    @bookrabbit

    Hi not sure what you mean that we lost LESS retirement time, that is not the reason why we are fighting. It is because DWP say they notified us by advertising on the TV, in magazines, newspapers, sent us leaflets - but that is not what happened. The Equality Act was passed in 1995, but we were not sent any direct information, even though it was normal, at the time to have letter from DWP advising what your State Pension would be. Especially for women as they mostly worked part-time and lots of women, myself included had no idea that we had out stamp paid if we had children and worked.

    Also the figures are inaccurate, in 2014 when I should have retired, there were around 4 million women AND MEN. Admittedly the men only had around a year or 18 months added on to their retirement age. There amount of men were 1.8 million at the time so bearing in mind that WASPI states that over 300 thousand women have died, the government is over egging how much it will cost.

    Finally, those women who had private pensions were notified, through their pension provider. Which was not the majority. Not all pension providers, I worked as a college tutor for a while so had a small pension with the Teacher Pension group, they never told me. I also started divorce proceedings in 1996 and was not notified by any of the companies I worked for. It would have made a difference to what decisions I made with regard to work prospects.

    I am still a full-time carer for my daughter who has Downs syndrome, who is now 34, but I carried on working up until 2019, from when she was born. When I developed osteoarthritis in 2015 I didn't qualify for PIP, at the time I was awarded £11.00 a week!

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