What's next for WASPI women versus DWP?
GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTY IN YOUR INBOX Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice  WASPI women will probably have to wait another month to find out if they will get any compensation for not being told properly that their pension age would go up by at least five years. Leaked findings of an investigation into complaints that the Government handled communications badly when it equalised the pension age between men and women appears to partially support their argument. But now millions of women are waiting to find out if the Ombudsman believes around 3.8 million women born in the 1950s lost out financially because of it. Read more:WASPI women warned by pension campaigner 'waiting 13 years for 50,000'  Although the Government claim they gave plenty of notice of the changes, many 1950s women say they only found out they could not get a state pension shortly before their 60th birthday. The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Sir Robert Behrens has spent several years looking into six test cases into claims of maladministration. His provisional ruling on how women were told their state pension age would rise from 60 to 66 was recently leaked and suggests he could be about to hand the women a partial victory. Get today's top stories and entertainment for free straight into your inbox  According to the leaked report the Department of Work and Pensions was not at fault in 1995 when the Pensions Act was passed, giving women 10 years notice of the date when the age would start going up incrementally over the following five years. But it says ministers could have done more when it emerged in 2004 that many women were unaware that they would have to work well beyond their 60th birthday. Now the big question is whether or not the Ombudsman believes they missed out financially because of this. Rebecca O'Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, told The Mirror: "I wouldn't want to give any false hope to these women - they have suffered enough. "What isn't clear is whether this changes the outcome for them in any way." Campaign Groups Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) and Women Against State Pension Injustice (WASPI 18) both fear the leak will damage their cause. Hilary Simpson from Cheltenham, who is acting chairwoman of the national group Women Against State Pension Injustice, warns any result in their favour is likely to be a moral rather than financial victory because cases like the Equitable Life row shows the Government doesn't just put cheques in the post when they lose. battles. She said: "Women born in the 1950s who have complaints with the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, including some women in Cheltenham, received a letter from them at the beginning of June with a revised provisional report and a statement that a final decision is expected by the end of July. "Unfortunately the contents of the report  which is confidential between the Ombudsman and the complainants  were leaked to the media, which does not help our case. "If the Ombudsmans final decision is that there has been maladministration in the way that changes to womens state pension age were implemented, the WASPI Campaign will be urgently seeking a fair and fast solution for all the women affected.  Under the rules women born before April 6 1950 still could retire at 60, but then it started going up until women born in the mid-50s have had to wait until their 66th birthday to claim the state pension. Most campaign groups are not against equalisation of the pension age, which is now 67 for both men and women, but say the way it was brought in disadvantaged them financially. Women born in the 1950s did not have equal rights in the workplace or society generally to build up funds for retirement and figures show their pension pot is a fraction of men the same age. We want to hear your thoughts on this story, so please log in and leave your comment below. Financial journalist Paul Lewis estimates that 1950s women did not get a letter telling them of the changes until one year and four months before they turned 60, when it was too late to boost their pensions. In September last year another campaign group Back to 60 campaign lost High Court case alleging the changes amounted to discrimination. Leaders have now mothballed that court campaign to run a Cedaw Peoples Tribunal to fight for a Bill of Rights for Women to be drawn up and implemented into UK law which they say could eventually aid their fight. But tens of thousands of women have already died and campaigners say they cannot wait.