Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Me Stride will appear before the Work and Pensions Committee on May 22.
Work and Pensions Secretary of State, Mel Stride MP, will face questions from the Work and Pensions Committee this week in an accountability session examining the work of his Department as well as recent UK Government announcements and policy developments. The meeting with the cross-party group of MPs will take place on Wednesday, May 22 at 9.25am.
Sir Stephen Timms, chairman of the Work and Pensions Committee, wrote to Mel Stride last week, following an oral evidence session on May 7 with the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign and the PHSO on the findings in its final report into changes made to the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s.
The PHSO recommended compensation equivalent to Level 4 on its banding scale - between £1,000 and £2,950, however, the WASPI Campaign and some MPS, including the SNP’s Alan Brown, are keen to see the highest level of compensation awarded - which starts at £10,000. “While not perfect, the advantages of such a system are that it would be: quick to administer; applying known data to a formula to determine the amount due; and relatively inexpensive.”
“It cannot happen without Government support. We would ask you to bring forward proposals for a remedy by the summer recess.” Commenting on the Committee’s actions, Ms Madden said: “Parliament’s top pensions thinkers have spoken. It is now time for the Government to act and give the Commons as a whole its say.
The WASPI Campaign estimates around 3.8 million women have been impacted by changes to their State Pension age.
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