Read our Privacy noticeAround 3.8 million Waspi women will not receive compensation, the work and pensions secretary has announced after a review of the decision. But the issue of compensation is based on "how changes to the state pension age were communicated", not past policy decisions, the minister said. He also told the Commons: "We accept that individual letters about changes to the state pension age could have been sent earlier. "For this, I want to repeat the apology that (former work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall) gave on behalf of the Government. In November, work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden said his department would review the previously-announced policy not to compensate the women born in the 1950s.