Waspi Women Get Stung Again?

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at a long awaited report, which says women born in the 1950s affected by changes to the state pension age should receive thousands of pounds in compensation.

The report suggests the so called Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women, should receive a payout of between £1,000 and £2,950. Some 2.6 million women were affected by the change in the pension age, and if everyone got the upper end of that, the government would face a bill of up to £7.7bn. Neither the government or Labour have so far committed to paying this. Adam and Chris speak to the chair of Waspi Angela Madden and Senior Money Reporter at the Times Lily Russell-Jones

And, Adam and Chris are joined by Sam McAlister author of Scoops, the story behind the Prince Andrew Newsnight interview. The book has been adapted into a Netflix drama starring Gillian Anderson, which comes out on April 5th.

A small amendment was made to this podcast after publication.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Joe Wilkinson. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Chris, Gratzia magazine has struck again.
0:07.1	It has, hasn't it?
0:08.1	Another his and hers interview.
0:10.1	Well, let's remind us of the last time Gratia magazine struck and this was the
0:13.9	Mr and Mrs interview with Rishi Sunec and his wife where he said some great things
0:19.2	for the ages. Oh that's me. Definitely Ritchie, but I am A for enthusiasm, so I see something...
0:26.0	But then it requires redoing after you've been very enthusiastic.
0:30.0	But I still load it, and then Rishi comes and rearranges it.
0:34.0	It's great more work.
0:35.4	Rearanges.
0:36.5	Yes.
0:37.5	It's a team effort.
0:38.5	And then more goes in as a result.
0:39.8	Team effort.
0:40.8	And did he not say he nipped upstairs like Midway through the working day in Downey Street to make his bed if he thought it wasn't made?
0:47.0	Yes, which prompted a lot of comment on this podcast and many others.
0:50.0	Anyway, Gratzia has struck again this time at home with the Starmers.
0:54.4	Now unfortunately there isn't a video of it yet, so what we've had to do is get John Coeshaw from Dead Ringers
1:00.3	to pretend to be Kere Starmer to then read out the choiceless bit when this is how it sounds.
1:06.0	I feel I show my human side all the time.
1:10.0	Do we all have to stack the dishwasher? Yes we do. Do we all have to change the bedding? Yes we do.
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