Women affected by changes to the state pension age will not receive compensation, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has announced.
Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) have advocated for support for women who were born in the 1950s and say they did not get adequate warnings about changes to the state pension.
Campaigners have branded the decision “bizarre and totally unjustified”.
The Government is also facing a barrage of criticism from MPs over the decision, some of which is coming from within its own party.
One former pensions minister said the handling of the issue “sets an extremely worrying precedent”.
Angela Madden, chairwoman of Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) said: “The Government has today made an unprecedented political choice to ignore the clear recommendations of an independent watchdog which ordered ministers urgently to compensate Waspi women nine months ago.
“This is a bizarre and totally unjustified move which will leave everyone asking what the point of an ombudsman is if ministers can simply ignore their decisions.
“It feels like a decision that would make the likes of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump blush.”
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