BBCNEWS BBC News January 21, 2022 17:41:00
It was £107,852, which is an amazing amount. so what went wrong? a damning reports by the public accounts committee shows mistakes going back as far as 1985. in total, 134,000 pensioners are owed an estimated £1 billion. some widows, divorcees and women able to claim through their husbands pension contributions have been underpaid. complex rules, outdated computer systems and manual handling have all been blamed. the dwp needs to sort out the error and get cracking with making sure that people and their estates where they have died have the payments that they are owed, but they also need to ...