This is the list of documents available for the submission By Bailie Norman MacLeod:- "Council welcomes the publication of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's report entitled 'Women's State Pension age: our findings on the Department for Work and Pensions' communication of changes'. Council notes the report's findings of maladministration and failure by the DWP appropriately to inform women of changes to their State Pension Allowance; and that the DWP did not provide 'accurate, adequate, timely' information about the hike in women's state pension age. As the report makes clear these women have been badly let down by the DWP over a number of years under successive UK Governments. These findings vindicate years of campaigning by the Women Against State Pension Injustice (WASPI) for pension justice. Council stands in solidarity with WASPI women in their campaign to have this historic injustice corrected; an injustice believed to be the largest case of maladministration ever brought before the Ombudsman affecting some 3.8 million women. Council further notes that the UK has one of the worst state pensions in Western Europe and condemns the decision of this Conservative government and previous Labour governments not to address this adequately. Council agrees that a state pension in an independent Scotland should be brought in line with comparator nations to allow our elderly citizens the dignified retirement they deserve. Council calls upon the UK Government to make early and adequate arrangements to compensate all who have been disadvantaged by this maladministration; and requests the Chief Executive to advise the relevant UK Minister accordingly.".

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