BBCNEWS BBC News at Six September 22, 2021 17:16:00
Blamed on complex pension rules and unautomated, outdated it systems.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, like jan in fife, can only backdate claims for 12 months and that's because of when her husband retired...