This is the list of documents available for the submission Falkirk Area WASPI Group Council notes with disappointment the UK Government's failure to end the injustice experienced by women affected by the changes to state pension laws; who have unfairly borne the burden of the increase to the State Pension Age without adequate notice; and supports the campaign of the Women Against State Pension Injustice (WASPI) group to achieve fair and fast compensation arrangements for all women, including approximately 10,000 women in Falkirk, who were born in the 1950s and were affected by these changes to state pension age. Council further notes that 3.8 million women throughout the UK had significant pension changes imposed on them by the Pensions Acts of 1995 and 2011 with little/no personal notification of the changes. As a consequence, many women born in the 1950's are living in hardship. Retirement plans were shattered with devastating consequences. Women born in this decade are suffering financially and many have serious health problems which means they cannot work. Council understands that it is not the pension age itself that is in dispute; the issue is that the rise in women's state pension age has been too rapid and has happened without sufficient notice being given to the women affected, leaving them with no time to make alternative arrangements. Council acknowledges the work of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) chaired by Andrew Gwynne MP and co-chaired by Peter Aldous MP which agrees with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's (PHSO) finding of maladministration and that the APPG has submitted evidence to the PHSO calling for "the highest compensation level available in making its recommendations". Council instructs the Chief Executive to write to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Mel Stride MP to urge the UK Government: " to accept the reported findings of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman that 1950s-born women have been severely affected by the Department for Work and Pensions maladministration " to take swift action to provide an appropriate level of compensation to the women " to compensate beneficiaries of the estates of those who are deceased.

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