Women on State Pension due back payments of up to £11,905 before New Year

dailyrecord.co.uk:

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently published new updates on the progress of the State Pension Underpayments Legal Entitlements and Administrative Practice (LEAP) exercise and the Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) corrections exercise being conducted in partnership with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

DWP has now completed the LEAP correction exercises for married women and people in a civil partnership (category BL) and those over 80 (category D) and confirmed that “progress remains on track for the ‘widowed’ cases to be completed by the end of 2024”.

Between January 11, 2021 and September 30, 2024, the DWP have identified 119,050 pensioners being underpaid through the LEAP exercise, with back payments averaging £11,905.

A similar exercise by HMRC has found that between January 8, 2024 and the end of September a further 5,344 underpayments have been identified through the HRP corrections exercise, with people owed State Pension underpayments of £7,859, on average.Below is an overview of progress on State Pension underpayments, who might be affected and how to check online or over the phone.