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Women over State Pension age could be due up to £11,500 in back payments this year

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The latest release from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) into State Pension underpayment errors shows that between January 2021 and February 2023, the administration exercise identified 46,716 cases owed a total of £300.1 million.

The previous update issued in November 2022 indicated that 31,817 underpayments had been identified and £209.3 million repaid to claimants.

A new progress update is due to be published on May 11, however, it is estimated that as many as 237,000 pensioners have been underpaid around £1.46 billion.

The issue largely affects women retiring under the old State Pension system when many did not receive the State Pension payment they were entitled to under their husband’s National Insurance record.Other women did not get uplifts to their weekly State Pension payments that they were entitled to when their husbands died.

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