Women over the State Pension age could be owed up to thousands in back payments by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). New data released by the department shows State Pension underpayment errors between January 2021 and February 2023.
The exercise identified 46,716 cases were owed a total of £300.1 million. Prior to this in November 2022, statistics showed that 31,817 underpayments had been identified and £209.3 million had been repaid to claimants, reports the Daily Record.
An update will be published on May 11 which is expected to show that as many as 237,000 pensioners have been underpaid around £1.46 billion. The issue largely affects women retiring under the old State Pension system when many did not receive the State Pension payment they were entitled to under their husband’s National Insurance record.
