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State Pension for thousands of women is being underpaid - here’s how to check yours
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dailyrecord.co.uk"tens of thousands of women" may be entitled to compensation and a higher rate of State Pension than they are currently receiving.
The findings from pension consultants Lane Clark and Peacock suggests that the issue affects women covered by the ‘old’ State Pension system. This means women who reached State Pension age before April 6, 2016. Under this system, married women could claim an enhanced rate of State Pension when their husband reached the age of 65 - in cases where they only had a small State Pension entitlement in their own right. The same rules applied to widows and divorced women.In some cases, the reason for the discrepancies is because UK Government computers failed to automatically award the correct rate of pension.
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