Mixed Blackburn reaction to WASPI pledge

Mixed Blackburn reaction to WASPI pledge

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BLACKBURN Labour election candidate Kate Hollern has welcomed her party’s commitment to compensate women born in the 1950s for the cost of changes in their state pension age.

Campaigners claim increasing the female qualifying age from 60 to 65 and then to 67 by 2028, in line with men, had hit this group, known as WASPI women,hardest. Earlier this month they lost a High Court case but are set to appeal.At the weekend Shadow chancellor John McDonnell promised a Labour government would pay out £58billion in compensation to three million women who lost out . […]

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