WASPI state pension petition secures Commons debate

The debate, given the go-ahead following an online petition which attracted more than 118,000 signatures, will take place on 1 February, the House of Commons decisions of petitions committee confirmed. Campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) contend changes to the state pension age have placed an unfair burden on hundreds of thousands of women born in the 1950s. It said: "The government must make fair transitional arrangements for all women born on or after 6 April 1951 who have unfairly borne the burden of the increase to the state pension age. "Hundreds of t...