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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Albert Toth

Over 300,000 benefit claimants owed money after PIP errors lead to millions in underpayments

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people are owed money from the government after it admited to major errors while paying out the Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

More than £260 million has already been paid to make up missing funds to those who saw the benefit wrongly denied or underpaid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

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