WASPI compensation hopes surge over key General Election shock
EXCLUSIVE: There have previously been calls in Parliament for payouts of £10,000 or more.
Hopes have been renewed for compensation for the WASPI generation (Women against state pension inequality) with the new cohort of MPs heading to Westminster.
The General Election results will see many MPs in the House of Commons who have previously supported calls for compensation.
WASPI campaign chair, Angela Madden, said they will be putting pressure on the new Labour Government to act.
She told Express.co.uk: "We congratulate Keir Starmer. He's spoken about WASPI, he's said the Conservatives should have picked up the WASPI issue but of course, they will now have to.
"He's right, they will have to, what's his alternative. The parliamentary ombudsman is the Government's watchdog, there's no point having it if the Government of the day don't listen to what they say."
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman released its long-awaited report in March, saying there should be compensation and calling for payouts of between £1,000 and £2,950.
Ms Madden said she was "absolutely thrilled" with the Liberal Democrats making huge gains, increasing their number of seats from 11 to 71.
The Lib Dems said in their manifesto released ahead of the election that there should be compensation payments for the WASPI women.
The campaign boss said: "They have consistently supported us and they will be a loud voice for us in Parliament.
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"Wendy Chamberlain has kept her seat and she was the spokesperson for Work and Pensions for the Lib Dems, so hopefully there will be some continuity there for us.
"It's just a pity that they're no the second party, rather than the third."
The campaign made some progress in the previous Parliament, with a bill put forward to set out plans for compensation and the previous Work and Pensions Committee saying there should be payouts.
Ms Madden said she is hopeful some of these efforts will set a precedent for the new Government.
She explained: "I am hopeful, especially for the Work and Pensions Committee. We will try and pressure Labour to act in the first 100 days, not in terms of doing anything but committing to look at it and to having someone working on what the compensation scheme will look like.
"The argument about whether we are owed money now is gone. The Ombudsman has decreed on that.
"What we need is someone to be looking at what kind of scheme it's going to be, what women will have to do to get it, when it will come into force.
"We would like Labour to commit to having it all done and dusted in this term of Parliament."
Ms Madden said the WASPI issue may have been part of the reason for the Conservatives' heavy defeat at the ballot box.
She commented: "Whether it was a key issue or not, I don't know, but it was certainly an issue. WASPI women are sick of hearing the same things from their MPs.
"The Conservatives had a chance to do something for the WASPI women, they chose to dither."
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