The government has refused to pay compensation to the millions of women in their 60s who were not properly informed of changes in the state pension age. Work and Pensions secretary Liz Kendall said the "great majority of women knew the state pension age was increasing" and that a state-funded pay-out wouldn't be "fair or value for taxpayers' money'". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Today's decision wasn't about the increase in the state pension age, it was about how that increase was communicated between 2005 and 2007.
00:12The Ombudsman found there was a delay, a 28 month delay in sending letters out, that this was our administration.
00:20We accept and we are sorry, but we don't agree to what the Ombudsman concluded on injustice and on the limit of it.
00:29Even if we had sent those letters out and provided research which showed it wouldn't have made the difference, the Ombudsman said.
00:36And for that reason, we are providing compensation, at least because 90% of women born in the 1950s knew that the state pension age was increasing.
00:48And we don't think that a flat rate compensation scheme costing up to £10.5 billion would be a fair and appropriate use of taxpayers' money.
00:57I know that many women born in the 1950s have been disappointed with it and we think it is the right and fair decision.