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DWP to pay back thousands of women underpaid in their State Pension

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women who have been underpaid their State Pension are to receive back payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), worth a collective total of around £3 billion.An administration error identified in March 2020 suggested certain women had been underpaid, according to Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) documents, released on Wednesday alongside Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget statement.Underpayments affected married women whose husbands reached State Pension age before 2008 and who were unknowingly entitled to an ‘enhanced pension’ that would have boosted their payments by up to 60 per cent.DWP investigations between May and December 2020 uncovered a systematic underpayment of State Pensions, meaning tens of thousands of.

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