Dear [MP Name]

I am one of an estimated 2,000 victims of the Equitable Life scandal living in your constituency who lost hard-earned pension savings because of a decade of maladministration by government departments and their regulators.

Despite the Parliamentary Ombudsman saying I should be put back into the position I would have been in had the maladministration not occurred, I was unfairly excluded from the scheme to provide compensation, simply because I bought my annuity before September 1992. Those who bought an annuity after that date are getting 100% compensation. While I received a single ex-gratia payment of £5,000 following lobbying by victims and MPs, I have suffered the same effects of maladministration that other annuitants have done, without adequate compensation for my reduced pension. I believe I should be treated the same as other victims.

Shockingly, as of 30 May 2025 £171m – or over 10% – of the compensation allocated and forecast to be paid to victims is set to be kept by the Treasury, against the intentions of Parliament. This would be more than enough to ensure fair treatment of victims like me.

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has said: “We must restore the sense that this is a country that can rectify injustice, particularly when carried out by institutes of the state.” I agree. I strongly believe that where the state accepts responsibility for a mistake, it should provide full and timely redress. I hope that you do too.

The Government is doing the right thing by fully compensating victims of the infected blood and post office scandals, where it has also accepted responsibility for failures. The same principle should apply to victims of the Equitable Life scandal like me.

I am now very elderly. I need the pension savings I worked so hard for. Will you please help me by writing to the Prime Minister and Chancellor on my behalf and by raising this issue in the House?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Your sincerely,

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