A DWP administration error that led to decades of state pension underpayments has been described as a "shameful shambles" by a public spending watchdog - with thousands of elderly women still waiting for their money.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates it has underpaid 134,000 pensioners, mostly women, over £1billion of their state pension entitlement, with some errors dating as far back as 1985.
In January 2021, the DWP started an exercise to correct the errors - the ninth such exercise since 2018, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said.
