Government to reconsider decision to deny Waspi women compensation

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Waspi women could get compensation for the way state pension changes were communicated, after the Government said it would reconsider its decision not to give payouts after new evidence came to light.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said his department would review the policy, announced last year, not to compensate women born in the 1950s who were affected by the increase in the pension age.

It came as court proceedings led to the rediscovery a 2007 Department for Work and Pensions evaluation which had led to officials stopping sending automatic pension for