WASPI campaigners calling on MPs to provide their long-awaited compensation payouts have suffered a huge set back with the announcement of the General Election.
With the upcoming election in July, Parliament is to be prorogued on May 24 and then dissolved on May 30.
This effectively undoes the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women’s progress of the past two months, since the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report came out recommending they should get payouts of between £1,000 and £2,950.
This included a compensation bill put forward by Alan Brown MP, that was due to have its second reading next month.
Angela Madden, chair of WASPI, told Express.co.uk: “It’s hugely disappointing. We have worked so hard in the two months since the report was published.
