Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign
[ch 6: page 65]The Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign group was set up in 2015 to fight the injustice done to all women born in the 1950s by changes to the state pension law. The 1995 Pension Act included plans to increase women’s SPA to 65, the same as men’s. While WASPI agrees with equalisation, it does not agree with the unfair way the changes were implemented, with little or no personal notice, faster than promised, and no time to make alternative plans.
The campaign aims to achieve fair transitional state pension arrangements for all the women affected by the changes. It says that this means a non-means tested “bridging” pension to provide an income until SPA, with compensation for losses for those women who had already reached their SPA.