Married women, people in a civil partnership, widows and those over 80 could be due a lump sum.
The Department for Work and Pensions recently published a new update on progress of the State Pension Underpayments Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice exercise. The latest figures show that 97,016 people over State Pension age - mostly women - have received back payments averaging £2,192, £5,713 and £12,486, depending on their pension category.
"People have the expectation that the state pension they receive is correct but a series of errors in an already overly complicated system means that for many thousands of people this expectation has been incorrect. Some who queried the issue with DWP over the years were told there was no problem, and many have suffered real financial hardship as a result. These people have been let down and need resolution as soon as possible.
HM Revenue and Customs started writing to thousands of older people in September 2023 who may have been underpaid their State Pension due to missing information on their National Insurance record. The issue affects mostly women in their 60s and 70s who may have HRP missing from their NI record. Latest State Pension News State Pension National Insurance Credits Some people who received Universal Credit may not have had their National Insurance Credits correctly attributed to their National Insurance record held by HMRC which could affect their State Pension.
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