Rachel Reeves says she can understand why women affected by changes to the state pension age will feel "disappointed", but adds that paying an "expensive compensation bill" was not the best use of taxpayers' money. Campaigners say the government's decision not to compensate women affected by changes to the state pension age, and their communication of these changes, are "bizarre and totally unjustified". But the chancellor says the ombudsman has reported that around 90 percent of women knew the changes were coming. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I understand that women affected by the changes to the state pension age feel
00:05disappointed by this decision but we looked at full in full at the Ombudsman
00:11recommendations and they said that around 90% of women did know that these
00:16changes were coming and as Chancellor I have to account for every penny of
00:21taxpayers money spent and given that the vast majority of people did know about
00:27these changes I didn't judge that it would be the best use of taxpayers money
00:32to pay an expensive compensation bill for something that most people knew was
00:37happening