WASPI women issued 'no compensation scheme' warning ahead of £2,950 payouts from DWP

WASPI women have been warned over rumours they need to "sign up" for compensation. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been urged to payout £2,950 compensation payouts to women affected by the historic injustices.

After the Parliamentary Ombudsman report, the DWP has not accepted its recommendations, and the new Labour Party Government is considering its response. Former Liberal Democrats MP Steve Webb replies: "I'm happy to give an update on where things are up to with regard to the position of women affected by lack of notice of changes to their state pension age.

"But right at the outset I should stress that as things stand there is no compensation scheme and nothing to 'register' for. If you are asked to put your details into a website it may well be a scam, as we warned earlier this year after being alerted by the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign.

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"The most important development in this whole issue was the publication of a report by the Parliamentary Ombudsman in March 2024 which found that 'thousands of women may have been affected by DWP's failure to adequately inform them that the State Pension age had changed'.

"Note that the Ombudsman has always made it clear that its focus has been on 'maladministration' – the way the process of change was administered by DWP, and not the changes to state pension ages in themselves."

Sir Steve, who is now a partner at a leading law firm, went on and told This is Money this week in a warning to older women affected by the WASPI scandal: "In the meantime, I would repeat my warning at the start to be wary of anyone attempting to get people to 'register' for compensation and to await official communications or publicity from the Government itself."