underpaid their State Pension are to receive back payments from the Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ), worth a collective total estimated to be around £2.7billion.
An administration error identified in March 2020 by pensions consultants Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP), showed that underpayments affected married women whose husbands reached State Pension age before 2008 and who were unknowingly entitled to an ‘enhanced pension’ that would have boosted their monthly payments by up to 60 per cent.
Subsequent DWP investigations between May and December 2020 uncovered a systematic underpayment of State Pension, meaning tens of thousands of married, divorced and widowed women may have been missing out on extra money since 2008.
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