The official WASPI account has shared a three word warning to the Labour party. In a message, which they re-posted on X (formerly Twitter), the @NorfolkWaspi account said they must "do better."
Posting this week they warned: "#WASPI women have said to @UKLabour do better #fairness #justice #notgoingaway and we’ve paid enough for equalisation. 0ver £90,000 raised in under 24 hours to say 'yes, we matter'."
WASPI - which stands for Women Against State Pension Inequality - is a UK-based voluntary organisation established in 2015 that fights for a fair state pension. Previously, women were eligible for a pension five years earlier than men. However, they now want those affected to be compensated because it says the government failed to tell them - or provide adequate notice - about the changes.
The message comes as campaigners have warned the government of potential legal action unless it reconsiders its decision to deny compensation to millions of women impacted by the rise in the state pension age. The campaign group is demanding payouts for 3.6 million women born in the 1950s, all of whom were not, they say, informed of changes first introduced in the 1990s.
The government apologised that the changes were not communicated quickly enough. However they told the BBC it "cannot justify paying for a £10.5bn compensation scheme at the expense of the taxpayer".
WASPI chair Angela Madden said: "We believe this is not only an outrage but legally wrong." A "letter before action" has been sent to the government, allowing it a chance to respond before the campaigners seek a judicial review at the High Court in two weeks' time.
If the group get approval, it means the Work and Pensions Secretary's claim that there was no direct financial loss, could now be examined in court.
Madden highlighted: "The government has accepted that 1950s-born women are victims of maladministration, but it now says none of us suffered any injustice." With no compensation forthcoming, she added: "The alternative is continued defence of the indefensible but this time in front of a judge."
Now, the group writes: "The only way forward now is to ask the High Court for a Judicial Review of the second report. If the Court agrees with us and our legal team that the Ombudsman has made errors, his decisions on the injustice WASPI women suffered will have to be made again, lawfully.
"The only way we can challenge the Ombudsman's decision is by a Judicial Review. Legal action of this kind is not cheap - we need to protect ourselves against the risk of having to pay the Ombudsman's costs as well as paying our own lawyers. We will be challenging a public authority with much greater resources than any of us have individually."
If the campaigners succeed in their case, the government could face an estimated cost of up to £10.5 billion. However, amid sluggish economic growth and rising borrowing costs, the Prime Minister has stated "the taxpayer simply can't afford the burden" of compensation.
