The government has agreed to reconsider its decision not to compensate millions of women affected by state pension age rises, after new evidence emerged during ongoing legal proceedings.
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden told MPs that ministers will withdraw from a forthcoming judicial review brought by the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign, while the newly uncovered material is examined.
The decision marks a significant shift in the long-running dispute over how women born in the 1950s were informed of changes to the state pension age. Campaigners argue they were not given sufficient notice of the increases that brought their retirement age in line with men, leaving many financially unprepared.
McFadden said the new evidence relates to previously unseen Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) documents from 2007, which had not been made available to his predecessor Liz Kendall when she ruled out compensation last December.
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