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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human errors over many years at the department for work and pensions, blamed on complex pension rules and unautomated outdated it systems.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 i'm afraid that many of them will have died before they receive the money they are owed, so actually, in a significant minority of cases, this money will go to their next of kin. the ...

Climate change. years of repeated human errors and outdated technology led to an estimated i—billion pounds' worth of state pensions being underpaid to more than ioo—thousand people. according to a report by the national audit office, 134,000 pensioners, mainly women were underpaid pensions because outdated computer systems in the 19805 led to mistakes. in total the department for work and pensions is expecting to pay the affected pensioners a total ofjust over £1 billion — that's an average of £8,900 for each person affected. here's our business reporter, sarah corker. for nearly a de...

A man has been charged with four counts of murder after a mother and three children were found dead in derbyshire on sunday. 31—year—old damien bendall is accused of killing terri harris, her children john paul and lacey, and theirfriend connie gent, in killamarsh near sheffield. he'll appear at southern derbyshire magistrates�* court later. detectives investigating the murder of lyra mckee in londonderry in 2019 have arrested two men. they are 2a and 29 and were detained in derry. they have been taken to belfast to be questioned under the terrorism act. lyra mckee was a 29—year old jo...

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human errors over many years at the department for work and pensions, blamed on complex pension rules and unautomated, outdated it systems.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, i'm 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 their next of kin. the department for work and pensions said it is fully committed to ensuring the h...

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 it's scandalous. i think that the fact that you have to battle for something that's rightfully yours is awful, because i was lucky, i've got richard to help me, but anybody who's a widow, and 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 £7000 she was owed, but it was a battle, and she is far from alone. these errors relate to married women who had small state ...