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Were underpaid pensions because outdated computer systems in the 1980s led to mistakes in total the department for work and pensions is expecting to pay the affected pensioners a total ofjust over £ibn that's an average of £8,900 for each person affected. here's our business reporter, sarah corker. for nearly a decade, irene from worcestershire was underpaid her state pension. she is one of thousands of women in their 70s and 80s that missed out on large sums of money because of government errors. i think it's scandalous. i think that the fact that you have to battle for something that's rig...

To battle for something that's rightfully yours is awful, because i was lucky, i have got richard to help me. but anybody who is a widow, perhaps not financially up with it, and they're perhaps struggling on the breadline, it could make a tremendous difference. irene has now been paid the £7,000 she was owed, but it was a battle and she's 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 1...

That bit of the crisis has not been averted vet-— that bit of the crisis has not been averted et. . ~ , , ., ~ averted yet. thanks. we will speak to the environment _ averted yet. thanks. we will speak to the environment secretary - averted yet. thanks. we will speak| to the environment secretary about that and other issues at around 7:30am. years of repeated human errors and outdated technology led to an estimated £1 billion worth of state pensions being underpaid to more than 100,000 people. a report by the national audit office into failures at the department for work and pensions found ...