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Work and Pensions Secretary of State, Mel Stride MP, will face questions from the Work and Pensions Committee this week in an accountability session examining the work of his Department as well as recent UK Government announcements and policy developments. The meeting with the cross-party group of MPs will take place on Wednesday, May 22 at 9.25am.

The most recent report published by the National Audit Office on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) accounts for 2021-22 was released in October last year and revealed that around 237,000 older people have been underpaid their State Pension by a total of £1.46billion.

New Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mel Stride, is set to face questions from MPs on November 30 in his first meeting with the cross-party Work and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sir Stephen Timms MP.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed it will publish an updated report into State Pension underpayments before Parliament stops for summer recess on July 21. The DWP is currently in the process of reviewing 405,000 cases as part of a LEAP exercise to identify underpayments, worth more than £1 billion in total, which were due to repeated human errors caused by complex rules and outdated IT systems.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that it received an estimated 10,000 new claims for Pension Credit in one week during a nationwide drive encouraging older people to check eligibility for the ‘gateway’ benefit worth more than £3,300 each year.

The scope of an administrative exercise checking and correcting State Pension underpayments should be expanded, a former pensions minister has said in a letter to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

rammed his car into the front of his family's home after a dispute over clothes. Raging Paul Palmer, 38, had split from the mother of his kids before jumping into his white VW Golf and driving it at the house.The video shows his motor turning onto the front lawn, past kids' toys and into the front wall of the property.

Chronicle Live.On September 12, Palmer had appeared “intoxicated” when he called his former partner on FaceTime then turned up at the house half an hour later.Prosecutor Peter Schofield told the court: "He drove, fairly deliberately, onto a grassed area at the side of and some distance from the property."He drove over the grassed area and aligned himself with the home and drove into the front of the home."Palmer, of Carley Road, Sunderland, admitted threatening to cause damage, causing criminal damage and dangerous driving.Recorder Jonathan Sandiford QC sentenced Palmer, who has been in custody on remand, to 16 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with rehabilitation and programme requirements.Palmer was banned from driving for two