Catalogue Number
NMLH.2024.19
Object Name
banner
Title
'Women Against State Pension Inequality'
People
Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI)
Date
2018
Description
Made in 2018, this banner protested against women having to wait an additional six years for state pensions which they had expected at 60. The banner has been used at the Festival of Quilts at Birmingham NEC in 2018
The WASPI campaign agrees with the state pension age being equal but does not agree with the unfair way the changes occurred. It believes that women were not properly informed and left with no time to make alternative plans. The campaign began online in 2015 when a group of women got together to fight this injustice. In 2021, the Parliamentary Ombudsman ruled in support of the WASPI campaign, however, no compensation package has yet been agreed.
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