The scope of an administrative exercise checking and correcting State Pension underpayments should be expanded, a former pensions minister has said in a letter to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).Sir Steve Webb, a former Liberal Democrat pensions minister who is now a partner at LCP (Lane Clark & Peacock), has written to Peter Schofield, Permanent Secretary at the DWP, after several underpayments to divorcees had emerged, including some amounting to up to £60,000.The letter says: "In your Departmental report and accounts for 2020/21 you set aside around £1 billion for repayments to over 100,000 people in respect of State Pension underpayments."The group already being looked at by the DWP includes married women and some married
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