State pension underpayment warning - have you been underpaid and eligible for more than £11,500?

Worried woman looking at paperwork at home

Hundreds of thousands of elderly women are owed cash after being underpaid their state pensions - because of the slow progress of a major government correction scheme.

Around 237,000 pensioners have been underpaid their state pensions, totalling £1.46 billion, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).