THOUSANDS of pensioners are owed money back after errors meant that they’ve been underpaid. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed that retirees were underpaid by more than £1bi…
but didn't due to an error that the National Audit Office has blamed on complex rules and outdated IT systems that require claims to be made manually instead of being automated.Who is affected by state pension underpayments?
Around 237,000 retired stay-at-home mums may have missed out on a pension hike when their husbands retired. Their payments should have risen to 60% of their husband’s basic state pension, the amount women with low national insurance contributions got under the old pension system. In the previous tax year when the issue was first uncovered, they would get £80.45 a week, 60% of their husband’s £134.25 a week.The injustice only affects wives who retired before 2016. After this date, women’s pensions were no longer linked to their husbands.If it was between April 2008 and 2016, you’ll get all your losses back as the Government should have increased your pension automatically.
Those whose husbands retired before 2008 had to apply for the extra cash, although in many cases they lost out because they didn’t know about it.
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