Thousands of State Pension claimants could be owed up to £6,900 in back-payments, due to a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) error.
Two groups of women are expected to receive the payments this year, reports Teesside Live. Those groups include married women who should have received an upgraded State Pension and those aged over 80
The DWP has confirmed that some payments should be sorted by the end of 2023, but also warned that people may not receive any money until later on next year.
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The latest figures from the DWP show that £209.3m in State Pension underpayments have since been repaid to 31,817 pensioners since the corrections began in January 2021.
A new report also shows that arrears payments made to the affected groups are averaging at £6,929 for married women, and £3,712 for those over 80.
While this has mostly affected women, some men could have been underpaid as well. The shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, has asked the DWP for a timeline on the payments.
Jonathan has asked when the DWP would be "repaying the remaining 200,000 pensioners identified in 2020 as having been underpaid their state pension".
In a written response in December, Pensions Minister Laura Trott MP said: "As stated in DWP's Annual Report and Accounts 2022, the Department expects to complete the exercise for CAT BL and CAT D by the end of 2023.
"For missed conversion cases, we aim to complete these as soon as we can but for this group, the exercise could run through late 2024.
"The Government is fully committed to ensuring that any historical errors, unaddressed by previous Governments, are put right as quickly as possible.
"We have increased the number of people working on the exercise and at its peak, we plan to have around 1,500 staff dedicated to the exercise.
"Our delivery is backloaded, with case reviews expected to significantly increase this year and going forward."
Former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb has also highlighted the DWP figures, claiming that a total of 237,000 pensioners were underpaid due to the errors.
He added that £1.46 billion is still owed, leaving more than £1 billion outstanding.
He said: "With the cost of living pressures affecting many elderly people on low incomes, it is essential that the pace of fixing these errors is stepped up and people get the money they are due as soon as possible."
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