[ Opinion Money and Business Editor Women will soon need to work for an extra 19 years to retire with the same pension savings as men March 23, 2024 6:00 am(Updated 8:12 am) Women from the Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign assemble outside Parliament during Prime Minister’s Questions on International Women’s Day last year … Read more
[ A future Labour government must deliver compensation to the millions of women who lost out over the change to the state pension age, Waspi women and MPs have warned. A major report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found that the Department for Work and Pensions had failed to communicate the change … Read more
[ A watchdog has told the Government to compensate the women from the Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) group hit by major changes to the state pension age in a damning report into failures at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) said a group of women … Read more
[ Welcome to Thursday’s Early Edition from i. Nearly 10 years ago, five women banded together to fight against the way changes to the state pension affected those born in the 50s. The Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) group says they were not properly told that their state pension age would increase from the … Read more
[ Women affected by major changes to the state pension age have been warned that many of them may miss out on compensation, as an official report into the saga is finally released. A five-year investigation by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) into alleged failures at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) … Read more
[ Campaigners demanding justice for the Waspi women hit by changes to the state pension age have urged Sir Keir Starmer to commit to compensation in Labour’s general election manifesto. A report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) into any failures at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) over communication of the policy … Read more
[ Millions of women could be in line for compensation over changes to the state pension age if a new bill passing through Parliament gets the green light. The bill, presented to the House of Commons by SNP MP Alan Brown on 7 February this year and described by some as a “lifeline”, proposes giving … Read more
[ My dressing room saga is an ongoing conflict between dresses I’d love to wear and my size 36DD boobs. Here’s the thing — I love being well-endowed, but I also love experimenting with trending dress silhouettes. Shopping for backless dresses with big boobs can be difficult, especially when it feels like going braless isn’t … Read more
[ “The problem with being a wife is being a wife,” writes Carmela Ciuraru in The Lives of Wives, her recent book about five literary marriages. The role has historically been unglamorous, she continues, requiring women to play the part of “chattel, cook, housekeeper, and nursemaid,” while enduring the type of struggles you’d expect when … Read more
