[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Some young woman on Sky News said it did, that bit I highlighted in your comment jim. I did not believe word of it as she came across as a know all Marxist she was in the right and everyone else is a liar.

Labour has announced a policy to compensate some of the women who lost out as a result of changes to the pension age.

The campaign for compensation has been led by the group Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi).

Under a Labour government, women born between 6 April 1950 and 5 April 1955 would be paid £100 for each week of entitlement lost.

Those born between 6 April 1955 and 6 April 1960 would receive smaller amounts.

Labour's Angela Rayner told BBC News: "The government failed the women who were born in the 1950s. They stole their pension."

The maximum compensation would be £31,300, with an average payment of £15,380.

Labour says the policy would cost about £58bn, paid in instalments over five years.

Labour's John Healey told BBC News: "This is not normal government spending - it's not a regular spending commitment - that's why it wasn't costed as part of our grey book exercise."

The grey book is the document Labour released alongside the manifesto that has costings for all day-to-day spending.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/50546923