Waspi women refused payouts - but what other compensation bills are looming?

The authorities is facing a backlash aft it rejected compensation for women deed by changes to the authorities pension age.

In opposition, elder Labour figures had been vocal supporters of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign, which argues 3.6 cardinal women calved successful the 1950s were not decently informed of the emergence successful the authorities pension property to bring them into enactment with men.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall and the premier curate himself are among those who person been pictured alongside campaigners holding signs backing their origin earlier Labour won power.

The party's 2017 and 2019 wide predetermination manifestos some promised compensation for those affected - but the pledge did not marque it into this year's manifesto.

Back successful March, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman recommended payouts of betwixt £1,000 and £2,950 each.

Ministers person apologised for delays informing women astir the changes, but the authorities says paying a level complaint to each those affected would outgo up to £10.5bn and would not beryllium just connected taxpayers.

The ombudsman says it is "extremely rare" that an organisation refuses to enactment connected its recommendations - but it cannot unit the authorities to bash so.

It's worthy noting that portion the Conservatives did not respond to the ombudsman's study erstwhile they were successful power, astatine the clip the watchdog said the Department for Work and Pensions had indicated it would garbage to comply with its compensation proposals.

The enactment is an illustration of the situation of moving from absorption to authorities - erstwhile the wealth has to beryllium recovered to wage for immoderate commitments.

Waspi women are not the lone radical calling for fiscal redress.

The authorities has already inherited immense bills for compensation schemes addressing historical scandals, with others perchance successful the pipeline.

Between 1999 and 2015 much than 900 sub-postmasters were prosecuted for stealing due to the fact that of incorrect accusation from the faulty Horizon machine system.

The ungraded has been described arsenic 1 of the biggest miscarriages of justness the UK has ever seen.

The erstwhile Conservative authorities acceptable up respective antithetic compensation schemes for victims. These person continued nether the caller Labour administration, which has besides launched an further strategy covering sub-postmasters whose convictions were overturned by caller legislation.

Around £500m has been paid retired to much than 3,300 claimants truthful far, with idiosyncratic amounts ranging from £10,000 to implicit £1m.

October's Budget acceptable speech £1.8bn for Horizon compensation schemes for 2024/25 - but the authorities has not fixed an estimation for however overmuch it expects to wage retired successful total.

More than 30,000 radical successful the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C aft being fixed contaminated humor products successful the 1970s and 1980s.

Since past much than 3,000 radical person died portion thousands of others unrecorded with wellness conditions.

A nationalist enquiry has accused doctors, the authorities and the NHS of repeatedly failing patients, who were not told of the hazard of their attraction oregon adjacent whether they were infected.

October's Budget included £11.8bn of backing to compensate victims, successful what is thought volition beryllium be the largest outgo of its benignant successful NHS history.

Around 4,000 survivors and bereaved partners person already received a bid of interim payments worthy up to £310,000 each, which began successful 2022.

Although homosexuality started to beryllium decriminalised successful the UK successful 1967, it was amerciable for cheery radical to service successful the British subject until 2000.

An autarkic study successful 2023 elaborate decades of homophobia and bullying, with those perceived to beryllium cheery often subjected to abusive investigations and aesculapian examinations earlier being discharged.

The erstwhile Conservative authorities accepted the report's proposal of compensation for those impacted by the ban.

Earlier this period the caller Labour medication announced LGBT veterans who were dismissed from the equipped forces for being cheery would beryllium eligible for up to £70,000 each.

The full magnitude disposable for payouts has accrued from the £50m initially projected by the report, to £75m.

Up to 4,000 veterans are expected to beryllium eligible, according to the National Audit Office.

More than 20,000 subject unit served arsenic portion of UK atomic weapons tests during the 1950s and 60s successful Australia, Fiji and different Pacific islands, with an estimated 1,500 inactive alive.

Thousands person suffered cancers and different conditions, portion immoderate of their children person been calved with disabilities.

Campaigners accidental grounds suggests these illnesses were caused by vulnerability to radiation during tests - and that the UK subject knew astatine the clip the hazard it was subjecting radical to.

The Ministry of Defence has agelong insisted probe has recovered nary nexus betwixt the tests and sick wellness oregon familial defects successful children, and that nary records person been withheld.

But campaigners person renewed their calls for compensation pursuing the emergence of caller imaginable evidence.

Back successful 2019, then-Labour person Jeremy Corbyn pledged £50,000 for each surviving British nuclear-test veteran.

His successor, Sir Keir Starmer, met campaigners successful 2021 but has made nary promises connected payouts.

The authorities says it is listening to the concerns of veterans - but whether this results successful fiscal compensation remains to beryllium seen.