THE UK Government has "backed down" and agreed to reconsider compensation for Waspi women within 12 weeks, a campaigner has said.

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) group said the UK Government agreed a “speedy and thorough” reconsideration of whether to award them compensation, and that a planned hearing will now not take place on Wednesday.

A special hearing had been due to take place regarding concerns from Waspi campaigners, which would decide whether a judicial review trial slated for December 9 and 10 should proceed.

The group of women, who were affected by the way changes to the state pension age were communicated, said a UK Government agreement means these court dates have been cancelled.

Women born in the 1950s saw their state pension age raised so it would

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