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Martin Lewis warns more than 200,000 women could be owed thousands

DWP to pay 200,000 retired women up to £13,500 after underpaying them

Junior civil servants 'failed to update women's state pension records'

Many elderly women lost out on state pension because junior civil servants failed to manually update their individual records during past decades, it has emerged. Well over a 100 government staff are now working to assess and manually correct individual records and more are being assigned to sort out the 'significant legacy issue', MPs have been told. Pensions Minister Guy Opperman: Junior civil servants failed to manually uprate women's state pensions as they should have done, he told MPs in a virtual committee hearing Since we began the investigation, we have repeatedly asked the Department for Work and Pensions the cause of the massive blunder that deprived so many women of pension cash for years, but never received an explanation.

State pension changes to give hundreds of thousands huge boost in retirement savings | Personal Finance | Finance

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Net-zero targets, virtual climate events and green recovery debates: The sustainability stories of 2020

Net-zero targets, virtual climate events and green recovery debates: The sustainability stories of 2020 With less than a week until Christmas, edie recaps what has been a busy year for sustainability stories, from the growing green recovery movement to the election of Joe Biden. We summarise the best-read and most important stories of 2020 We are frequently told that the pace of change in regards to environmental discussions and actions has never been so rapid - and that it will only continue to accelerate in the coming years.  2020 proved the trust of this statement. At the start of the pandemic, there was a feeling that the environment could be forgotten in a race to the bottom designed to restart the economy - but the growing green recovery movement has led to most sectors and nations imagining a greener future.