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Government identifies £800mn of state pension underpayments

  • The Department for Work and Pensions identified significant state pension underpayments between 2021 and 2025.
  • These errors resulted from issues including missed pension uplifts for married women.
  • The miscalculations primarily affected women pensioners, with some underpaid for decades.
  • Government figures show the checking process identified £804.7 million owed.
  • Authorities continue identifying errors, expecting amounts paid under the HRP exercise to rise.
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Birmingham MailBirmingham Mail
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Thousands of state pensioners due up to £12k in DWP back payments - Birmingham Live

The Department for Work and Pensions made more than 130,000 underpayments over a two-year period

·Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Daily ExpressDaily Express
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State pension update as £800m blunder is discovered - check if you're hit

A total of 130,948 underpayments were discovered by March 31, 2025 - with arrears totalling £804.7 million.

·United Kingdom
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Financial TimesFinancial Times
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Government identifies £800mn of state pension underpayments

More than 130,000 people affected, with errors dating back to the 1980s

·London, United Kingdom
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Ilkley GazetteIlkley Gazette
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Check your pension payments as £800m of DWP state pensions underpaid

More than £800 million of state pension underpayments has been identified in a correction exercise, and they're not finished yet

·Ilkley, United Kingdom
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More than £800m of state pension underpayments identified in correction drive

Married women on low state pensions and the over-80s are among those who have been underpaid.

·London, United Kingdom
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Cambridge NewsCambridge News

Women underpaid in DWP state pension 'scandal' - how to check

Parents who stayed at home with young children between 1978 and 2010 may have unknowingly built up significant pension shortfalls due to administrative errors

·Cambridge, United Kingdom
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headlinemoney.co.uk broke the news in on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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