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Campaigners branded the Government’s decision not to compensate affected women ‘bizarre and totally unjustified’

KEIR Starmer has been urged to act quickly to compenstate women affected by changes to the state pension age.

Waspi chair Angela Madden said anyone who has given their personal data to a potentially fraudulent website should contact Action Fraud.

It comes after a Work and Pensions Committee session with campaigners from Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) and the PSHO.

Millions of women born in the 1950s were affected by the change to the State Pension age.

A third of women pensioners report experiencing debt in the last six months, with thousands of women saying not knowing about the state pension age being increased was the direct cause of their financial hardship

New research found that one in four women born in the 1950s are struggling to buy food and essentials.

Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) says it plans to take the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to court over 'serious' mistakes about the injustice women born in the 1950s suffered

Baroness Glenys Thornton, shadow equalities minister in the House of Lords, said it was "shamefull" that an estimated 3.6 million women whose pension age was unexpectedly raised have not been compensated as she addressed members of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaign