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WASPI women: £10bn to a small group of wealthy pensioners is not in country's best interests

WASPI women: £10bn to a small group of wealthy pensioners is not in country's best interests

When young people can't access affordable housing and children increasingly grow up in poverty then resolving the WASPI wrangle should not be Labour's priority

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Dec 19, 2024
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There’s a continuing focus on the plight of the WASPI women who were born in the 1950s - it will be on your TV screens, the newspaper front pages and on your social media feeds. They have long claimed they were unfairly penalised when the state pension age for women was raised to match that of men.

Many argue they were not adequately informed of the cha…

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