The Cunninghame branch of the Women Against State Pension Inequality Ltd are due to meet for the first time this year at the end of the month.

On Saturday, February 29 from 11am-1pm, they will meet at the Celebrate Kilmarnock Hub in the town’s King Street.

WASPI groups have been popping up all over the UK to campaign for compensation for the women affected by the changes to state pension age in 1995, which have left many women who were born in the 1950s struggling to make ends meet.

A spokesperson for the Cunninghame WASPI group said: “The Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman is presently reviewing test cases on the maladministration claims of thousands of 1950`s born women and we await the outcome. Women have had their state pension age increased from the age of 60 to 66 with little or in most cases no notice at all. This decision has forced many women back into seeking employment in their early sixties, often in low paid jobs, or surviving with the help of family members or into poverty for the first time in their lives.

Women Against State Pension Inequality Ltd continue to fight for justice for the 3.8 million women affected, in 2017 they wrote to the Department for Work and Pensions threatening legal action if they did not do anything to lessen the impact felt by those affected.

Glasgow’s WASPI women were defeated in the courts last year but have vowed to fight on.

If you feel you might benefit from talking with the WASPI women or you’d like to find out more then send them an email at cunninghamewaspi@outlook.com.