A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) error has resulted in thousands of state pensioners losing out on money.
The DWP has admitted that many women have not been paid the correct amount of State Pension that they were entitled to, reports the Mirror. The National Audit Office (NAO) has blamed the error on "outdated IT systems" and complex rules that required pension increase claims to be made manually rather than automatically.
The error has largely affected women who reached State Pension age before April 2016. According to the latest DWP figures, a total of 31,817 underpayments were identified between January 2021 and October 2022.
