I thought I would start a thread.

So did the women get screwed by the government in 2010, yup. However so did the men including me although not as bad as the women.

I don't really buy into the "we never knew" the government ran a TV and newspaper campaign as well as sending letters out. No doubt some people did not receive a letter and never look at TV or the papers but the idea that hundreds of thousands of women didn't know I am skeptical about.

Anyway they want 10k and the commission says they should get circa 3k and the government says no and Labour has gone quiet.

You might think I am unsympathetic I'm not. I was born Dec 1960 and every major pension change always starts with those born after April 1960 will have to....

I do think from the start the WASPI campaign has had a major flaw. Compensating them for their loss would cost the taxpayer 35bn the whole point of the changes was to save money on pensions.

It is not often pointed out by journalists but this generation of women statistically are the richest group of women so far. So many of them are comfortable and do not need a massive handout from the taxpayer.

I think their campaign then should have focused on the smaller group of hardship cases which I don't doubt exist. I think that would have resonated far more with the public and the politicians.

One more point

Something needs to be paid otherwise it will never go away.
If the independent report says £3k then they should do that and leave it there.
Labour are not going to join in are they - any money paid will affect them and part of the problem happened on the Blair/Brown watch!

Women wanted equal rights to men and when they got it they moan about it .
I was hoping the pension age would go down to 60 to be equal with women but no that was never going to happen .