Compensation Bill for Mishandled State Pension Age Rises Reaches £10.5bn
London, United Kingdom – The UK government is potentially facing a significant compensation bill following a ruling by the Parliamentary Service and Health Ombudsman that it mishandled state pension age rises impacting women born in the 1950s. The Ombudsman’s report, the culmination of a lengthy investigation, highlighted the Department for Work and Pension’s failure to properly inform women in this age group about changes to the state pension age. This negligence has prompted calls for …