Ministers were accused of showing 'contempt' for so-called 'Waspi' women today as they again ruled out compensation. Campaigners and Labour MPs voiced fury after Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden announced that a review had confirmed payouts are not required. He said there were 'legitimate' questions about whether the state pension age should have been increased, and repeated an apology for the failure to send notification letters earlier. He also told the Commons: 'We accept that individual letters about changes to the state pension age could have been sent earlier. Angela Madden, chairwoman of Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi), said: 'Ministers have demonstrated their utter contempt for 1950s-born women, for Parliament and for the Parliamentary Ombudsman.