A warning has been issued as State Pension claimants could be waiting until the end of 2024 for their payments to be corrected.
This comes as the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates that 237,000 older people have been underpaid a total of £1.46 billion in State Pension, with underpayments going back as far as 1985.
However, a new report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) suggests that fraud and error levels in benefits spending at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is "unacceptably high". It emphasised that more must be done to get a grip on the billions of pounds being lost every year.
