More than 4,000 WASPI women in Scotland have died since the end of 2020.
The women, known as WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality), is a UK based voluntary organisation set up in 2015.
It campaigns against how the state pension age was equalised for men and women, and also how many WASPI woman have died without seeing compensation.
Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, has called for immediate action from the UK Government, saying : "These figures expose one of the most serious and shameful social injustices in modern UK history.
"It was bad enough that the WASPI women were discriminated against in the first place but for this Labour UK government to be continuing to refuse them the compensation that even a Parliamentary Ombudsman has said they are entitled to, makes it even worse.
"The scandal deepens daily as more than two WASPI women a day have died in Scotland, since 2020, waiting for justice – waiting for compensation that they were promised, that they were entitled to, and that Labour has repeatedly failed to deliver."
Since the end of 2020, more than 4,000 affected women in Scotland have died without compensation.
Ms Ewing described the ongoing delay as 'utterly indefensible' and urged the UK government to deliver compensation without further delay.
She said: "Labour must honour the Ombudsman’s recommendations and deliver full compensation.
"Every day they delay, more women lose their chance to see justice in their lifetime, and that is utterly indefensible."
She also dismissed recent statements from the government about revisiting compensation as a potential 'delaying tactic' linked to the ongoing High Court case.
Ms Ewing said: "WASPI women are understandably cynical that current talk from the UK Government of the compensation maybe being ‘revisited’ is just a delaying tactic related to the ongoing case in the High Court.
"Labour MPs were happy enough to take selfies with WASPI campaigners before the election but apparently some are now ‘privately furious’ that the talk of reconsidering refusal will simply ‘remind the public’ of their own party’s own inaction and risk another ‘unpopular’ refusal of compensation before the Scottish elections."
She also criticised what she described as Labour’s 'continued abandonment' of the women affected.
She said: "Well, I’m not privately furious, I’m publicly enraged at Labour’s continued abandonment of the WASPI women and the empty words that have been followed by inaction instead of the delivery of justice."
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