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Blamed on complex pension rules and unautomated, outdated it systems.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...

Collision again of lots of. exactly has been hit. no, a - collision again of lots of different problems, complex rules as anna says, people not understanding cases that theyre trying to review. and apparently outdated it systems which have beset government before. yes ut u- a have beset government before. yes put up a very _ have beset government before. jazz put up a very complex set of rules and people circumstances change. the amount of money they are meant to be receiving my change when some...

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Words, they are looking for sort of a bit of a slowdown in that growth, but not an actual business decline. last night we saw shares end up 2% in after—hours trading, which shows that the markets at least have given result is a reasonably warm reception. amanda cooper, thank you very much for your time today. thank ou. russia is once again implicated in a us cyber attack. jbs usa — which is a subsidiary of the worlds largest meat supplier — reported disruptions to its it systems in north a...

The fbi is now investigating how a major meat supplier got held for ransom, and if at all sounds familiar, you are right. three weeks ago, a similar incident shut down a us oil pipeline, and who can forget the large—scale russian sewer attack that came to light at the end of last year? the deputy press secretary said the white house was engaging directly with the russian government on this matter. it is also assessing the potential impact on the nations meat supply. workers at somejbs faciliti...

Here in the united states had shifts cancelled via facebook after the crippling cyber attack affected servers that were used to power its north american and australian it systems. this is the latest high—profile ransom attack against a private company disrupting a critical supply chain, but security experts warn it wont be the last. these attacks are having increasingly dramatic consequences. you might remember that last month one of the biggest fuel pipelines in the us was shut down by a cybe...

Lets just recap the extent of the attack. at its peak on tuesday — all ofjbs�*s beef processing plants in the us were taken offline. the company said it suspended its affected it systems as soon as as the attack was detected — rendering the nine plants unoperational. just to give you a sense of the scale ofjbs beef — these nine plants alone process one quarter of all of americas beef. susan landau is professor of cybersecurity and policy at tufts university and she joins us now from amhe...