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The Department of Work and Pensions is being urged to pay compensation to women affected by state pension age change

SNP chief whip, Owen Thompson, recently called for a timetable to ‘properly compensate’ WASPI women.

WASPI campaigners are calling for an immediate one-off payment of between £11,666 and £20,000 for millions of women.

Women affected by an increase to the State Pension should be paid between £11,666 and £20,000 in compensation according to the Organisation Women Against State Pension Inequality

A campaign was launched after a ruling led to women born in the 1950s having their state pension age increased

Former office clerk Sally Hyde says three years before her 60th birthday she received an 'unwarranted' letter from the Department for Work and Pensions stating that her retirement age had gone up six years to 65. A year later, this rose again to 66

The group wants to encourage WASPI women affected to think about the different types of injustice

They felt there was an injustice

Laurianne Peake, now 67, was expecting to be able to retire at the age of 60, after ill health forced her to leave her teaching job at the age of 55 - but changes in the government's retirement age threw her back into work