WASPI Women
Cut-price travel tickets could be considered by Burnham.
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Burnham had caused waves by telling a hustings event on Wednesday that, if he became PM, he would “stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness”.
The current Labour government has repeatedly rejected calls to compensate the so-called Waspi women, a cohort born in the 1950s who claim they lost thousands of pounds each after not being properly informed of a rise in the state pension age, amid fears the bill could reach £10.5bn.
Burnham rowed back from the idea of a direct payout, a day after his spokesperson said he was “committed to looking at” the case for compensation.
“He accepts the final decision has been made in relation to financial compensation but has indicated an openness to considering similar schemes on the Greater Manchester model,” the spokesperson said on Thursday.
The Greater Manchester model is a reference to non-financial compensation. Cut-price travel tickets could be considered, Burnham’s team added, pointing out that as mayor he has “supported Waspi women in the city-region with early access to concessionary travel, providing some recompense to them within affordability limits”.