DWP State Pension backpay on the cards after thousands underpaid

The Department for Work and Pensions has underpaid almost £1.5billion to thousands of benefit claimants, with State Pension backpay now on the cards. It comes as 237,000 older people have been underpaid their State Pension by a total of £1.46billion, according to DWP accounts for 2021-22.

Permanent Secretary at DWP, Peter Schofield, told the cross-party committee of MPs, chaired by Sir Stephen Timms: “We have found more cases of underpayment.” The additional underpayments were identified via a change in the scanning system which means that the sample of State Pension cases DWP will now look at for errors is 700,000 instead of 400,000, LancsLive reports.

Out of the 112,000 cases DWP looked at they identified 31,817 with an underpayment and paid in total to that group of people, £209 million. This works out at an average of £6,568 per case, however, Mr Schofield pointed out that there was a "wide variety" of underpayments within that group which means that some people could have received more or less than others.

State Pension underpayment progress Payments made between January 2021 and October 2022 are listed below.Who could get back payments from State Pension? There are six particular groups strongly encouraged to contact the pension service to see if they could be entitled to more State Pension.

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