Responding to today’s announcement Later Life Ambitions spokesperson and General Secretary of the Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance Sally Tsoukaris said:
“This will come as a huge disappointment to millions of women born in the 1950s who reasonably expected to receive compensation after the Ombudsman agreed that government had failed them.
“Those women will rightly feel betrayed.
“What is the point of an Ombudsman process if the government can just ignore its findings and ride roughshod over the proven hardship that many of the Waspi women have endured?
“Following the decision to pull the universal winter fuel payment and after refusing to extend the deadline for applying for Pension Credit beyond this Saturday a concerning pattern of behaviour is developing with this government with regard to older people.
“We will continue to fight to ensure older people’s voices are heard.”