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DWP encourages women who may be owed thousands of underpaid State Pension to contact them

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backdated State Pension payments. In May, new research found that potentially "tens of thousands of women" may be entitled to compensation and a higher rate of State Pension than they are currently receiving.

The findings from pension consultants Lane Clark and Peacock suggested that the issue affects married women covered by the ‘old’ State Pension system.

This means women who reached State Pension age before April 6, 2016. Under this system, married women could claim an enhanced rate of State Pension when their husband reached the age of 65 - in cases where they only had a small State Pension entitlement in their own right.The same rules applied to widows and divorced women.

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