Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaigns in opposition to what it believes are unfair adjustments to the state pension age.

WASPI girls have been pressured to alter their life after having to work years longer to obtain their state pension.

The group argues some 3.8 million girls born within the Fifties have been adversely impacted by the choice to boost their state pension age from 60 to convey it consistent with males.

The poor communication over state pension age adjustments left them with "insufficient time" to arrange for as much as six years longer with out their pension.

Many girls have been left to search out further work at a time after they thought they may retire, to pay further contributions to obtain a pension, or to fall into poverty and must promote their properties to afford to reside.

The group has had some success because the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman beforehand discovered the DWP ought to have written particular person letters to these affected 28 months sooner than it did.

‌A second stage of the Ombudsman’s investigation discovered there had been maladministration by the DWP.

This might imply affected girls could someday get hundreds of kilos in compensation.

‌On the WASPI Facebook web page, many ladies who've been affected shared their tales and paid tribute to all those that have campaigned and fought for them.

Figen Vicky Rasmussen stated: "WASPI, thank God that you just're combating for us. What an absolute shambles created by DWP and refusing to come clean with their errors. I retrained as an English trainer and taught aboard simply to outlive.

‌"Very exhausting occasions and nonetheless making an attempt to reside on a pittance given by the DWP. I do not get the complete pension as apparently I had been moved to SERPS! Had to surrender my dwelling after which transfer in with my aged mother and father.

"But so many more with much harder lives. But it shouldn't have come to this. A thousand thanks to you WASPI for fighting on our behalf."

CJ Alexander wrote: "I'm 64 and dealing full time, I've to pay my payments. I don’t thoughts working mentally however bodily it's taking loads out of me particularly the final yr or so.

I get increasingly sicknesses and I do know in two years I can be worse. So thanks for all you’re doing I did write to my MP some time again however acquired no reply.

‌“Even if we do win this the compensation will be in the £100’s not the £1,000’s it should be and only for a very few because you try to prove you didn’t know when they will just say we wrote to you."

With the campaigners now awaiting a ruling about what should be done to rectify the issue, they have sent the Ombudsman a list of 10 steps about how they think the probe should proceed.

‌The 10 steps include:

• Complete the investigation with a sense of urgency
• Clearly and correctly identify when maladministration began
• Clearly and correctly identify when maladministration ended
• Reach a sound conclusion on what would have happened if women had been correctly notified of the changes to their state pension age
• Make realistic findings on direct financial losses
• Look at the lost opportunities for women to make different financial decisions
• Properly consider the distress, anger and hurt of those affected
• Take account of varying impacts based on circumstances
• Reach conclusions in a fair manner including consultation with WASPI
• Make compensation recommendations that are fair, fast and straightforward.

The WASPI campaigners have urged its supporters to write to their MPs with the list of 10 demands.

The group said: "Some of us were already 58 when the DWP pulled the rug from under us by letting us know far too late that we could not retire and draw a pension at 60 but must instead wait until 66.

‌"By then we had taken life-changing decisions to leave work, often taking up caring responsibilities for our elderly parents, grandchildren or ill partners."

The PHSO said: “We are confident that we have completed a fair and impartial investigation. As an independent Ombudsman, our duty is to provide the right outcome for all involved and make sure justice is achieved. Given the legal challenge brought against us, we have agreed to look again at part of our stage 2 report.

“We hope this cooperative approach will provide the quickest route to remedy for those affected and reduce the delay to the publication of our final report.”

A DWP spokesperson stated: “The Government decided over 25 years ago it was going to make the State Pension age the same for men and women.

“Both the High Court and Court of Appeal have supported the actions of the DWP under successive governments dating back to 1995 and the Supreme Court refused the claimants permission to appeal.”