Women from Norfolk who were born in the 1950s and hit by changes to state pensions will join a protest outside parliament.

Campaigners from WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) will rally in London on Wednesday (March 8) - International Women's Day.

The group has called for a payout between £11,000 and £20,000 for those who were not given enough warning that the State Pension age was going up from 60 to 66.

Josie Fitzgerald, a campaigner from Great Yarmouth, said: "It was not that our pension age was rising but how it was done.

"Many of us never received a letter about this issue."

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Great Yarmouth Mercury: WASPI campaigners will rally in London on March 8, International Women's Day. Photo: WASPI.WASPI campaigners will rally in London on March 8, International Women's Day. Photo: WASPI. (Image: PA)

Ms Fitzgerald also said: "I think all men and women should retire at the same age, 65, not what the government keep increasing it to.

"It will be 68 soon with some professions. This will be very difficult especially those heavy difficult professions."

She believes the government should apologise for the way the pension issue was handled and that campaigners will shout as loud as they can at the rally on Wednesday. 

Around 54,000 women in Norfolk are affected, and 3.8 million nationally.

Changes to the state pension age saw women born in the 1950s left with an additional six-year wait before receiving their state pensions - leaving many faced with dire financial straits or forced to continue working.

In 2021, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman confirmed the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) "did not get it right" in making women aware of changes from 2005 onwards - and that amounted to maladministration.

The process to assess what recommendations, including potential compensation, the ombudsman would make to remedy it, is ongoing.