DWP errors leave thousands entitled to £8,900 payout over underpayments

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Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has estimated that it underpaid 134,000 pensioners.

And those it can trace will be paid an average of £8,900, the National Audit Office (NAO) said. More than £1 billion-worth of state pensions has been underpaid due to repeated human errors which were almost inevitable amid complex rules and outdated IT systems, a spending watchdog has said.

They added that most of those affected are likely to be women and the true value of the underpayments will only become clear once the DWP has completed its review of all case. READ MORE: Universal Credit, PIP, and state pension claimants to get DWP Christmas bonus It has been