I’m livid on the authorities’s resolution to disregard the recommendation of the ombudsman and refusal to compensate Waspi ladies (Anger greets UK authorities resolution to not compensate ‘Waspi ladies’, 17 December). What’s the purpose in having a prolonged and costly evaluate should you don’t pay it any heed? I together with many others have been ready a very long time to listen to what our compensation can be, despite the fact that it might go nowhere close to the £50,000 many people misplaced. I didn’t think about they might so simply dismiss our struggling because of authorities failure to offer us time to plan. Labour has already eliminated the winter gasoline allowance. One wonders what it would hit us with subsequent.
If you’re near the sting of a precipice, each kick brings higher jeopardy. It’s virtually as if they need pensioners to endure, that we’re their scapegoats. This can be a final straw for me with regards to Labour. I’ll by no means belief it with my vote once more. I’d go away the nation and go and dwell near my daughter in New Zealand, however I can’t as a result of the federal government then freezes your pension and also you’re successfully worse off yearly. I wrote to the pension minister about that, but it surely appears I’m not even essential sufficient to warrant a reply. Possibly the federal government thinks we don’t matter as a result of we’re not highly effective, or that we’ll be gone earlier than too lengthy. It underestimates us.Cathy PrestonHeathfield, East Sussex
Shock on discovering your retirement pension age is definitely not restricted to Waspi ladies. Just some weeks in the past, my hairdresser introduced that he was going to be 60 quickly and can be getting his bus cross. I work at Residents Recommendation, so defined he received’t get a bus cross (in England) till he’s pension age, at 67. He was astonished he must wait that lengthy, and an entire salon-full of individuals instantly tuned in to the dialog. None of them, from folks of their 30s to 60s, knew after they would get their pension, and after I guided them to the gov.uk calculator, they have been all anxiously on their telephones discovering out the dangerous information. Sheila HutchinsTruro
I do recognize that monetary issues have been inherited by the present authorities and that it doesn’t really feel that it might “ask the taxpayer to bear the burden”, however I am a taxpayer!
Does Labour not realise that I paid tax for six extra years than I had anticipated to? For these six years, the authorities didn’t should pay me the winter gasoline allowance. I retired from work at 66 in August this 12 months and now I really feel like retiring from voting for a Labour authorities.Karen Scott ThompsonBromsgrove, Worcestershire
For girls like me, born in March 1953, who lastly obtained our state pension three years late with no warning, we now obtain £169.50 every week, not £221.20 as acknowledged in your article.Val WoodwardPlymouth
After all there must be no compensation for the Waspi pensioners because the elevating of the pension retirement age has been in the general public area for a few years. The logic of their argument is that anybody affected by a change in social safety or tax ought to obtain a person notification of how the change will have an effect on them.John Martin Berry Ormskirk, Lancanshire
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