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Women, widows and the over—80s. they are collectively owed more than £1 billion. the national audit office found there were repeated human errors over many years at the department for work and pensions, blamed on complex pension rules and unautomated outdated it systems. most of the people affected were women, not all but most. 90% of those that take this type of state pension lift are women, and unfortunately im afraid that many of them will have died before they receive the money they are o...

There were repeated human errors over many years at the department for work and pensions, blamed on complex pension rules and unautomated, outdated it systems. most of the people affected are going to be women, not all, but most — 90% of those that take this type of state pension uplifts are women. and unfortunately, im afraid, many of them will have died before they received the money that they are owed. so actually, in a significant minority of cases, this is money that will actually go to t...

She is one of thousands of women in their 70s and 80s who missed out on large sums of money because of government errors. i think its scandalous. i think that the fact that you have to battle for something thats rightfully yours is awful, because i was lucky, ive got richard to help me, but anybody whos a widow, and perhaps not financially up with it, and theyre perhaps struggling on the breadline, it could make a tremendous difference. irene has now been paid the £7000 she was owed, but it was...

The £7,000 she was owed, but it was a battle and shes far from alone. these errors relate to married women who had small state pensions. they were eligible to claim 60% of their husbands contributions. but complex rules and errors by the dwp meant that for decades, they were underpaid. the errors date back to 1985, affecting an estimated 134,000 pensioners, including some married women, widows and the over 80s. they are collectively owed more than £1 billion. the national audit office found th...

But it was a battle, and she is far from alone. these errors relate to married women who had small state pensions. they were eligible to claim 60% of their husbands contributions, but complex rules and errors by the dwp meant that for decades they were underpaid. the errors date back to 1985, affecting an estimated 134,000 pensioners, including some married women, widows and the over—80s. they are collectively owed more than £1 billion. the national audit office found there were repeated huma...

But complex rules and errors by the dwp meant that for decades they were underpaid. the errors date back to 1985, affecting an estimated 134,000 pensioners, including some married women, widows and the over—80s. they are collectively owed more than £1 billion. the national audit office found there were repeated human errors over many years at the department for work and pensions, blamed on complex pension rules and unautomated outdated it systems. most of the people affected were women, not a...

Blamed on complex pension rules and unautomated, outdated it systems. it was a former pensions minister who first revealed the scale of the problem. for decades, the department for work and pensions simply failed. they failed to spot that over 100,000 women were being paid the wrong rate of pension. someone in the department should have been more curious. when errors were found, they should have asked whether something systematic was going on. some women will now be fully repaid, but others, lik...

Irene has now been paid the £7,000 she was owed, but it was a battle and shes far from alone. these errors relate to married women who had small state pensions. they were eligible to claim 60% of their husbands contributions. but complex rules and errors by the dwp meant that for decades, they were underpaid. the errors date back to 1985, affecting an estimated 134,000 pensioners, including some married women, widows and the over 805. they are collectively owed more than £1 billion. the nation...