The legal team representing four legacy benefits claimants’ who lost a High Court challenge in February over the £20 weekly Universal Credit uplift recently confirmed that an application to appeal the decision has been successful.
06.09.2022 - 07:09 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The latest report by the public spending watchdog on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) accounts has revealed that around 237,000 people over State Pension age have been underpaid a total of £1.46 billion. The National Audit Office (NAO) report said this was an increase of £429 million and some 105,000 older people on the DWP’s best estimate at the end of 2020-21.
The report, by Comptroller and Auditor General of the NAO, Gareth Davies, highlights that some underpayments go back as far as 1985. It also reveals that the DWP has “identified several new groups of pensioners potentially affected by underpayment, the most significant relating to Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP).
HRP was a scheme to help protect parents’ and carers’ State Pension credits while they stayed home to look after children and was replaced by National Insurance credits in 2010. However, these were not recorded accurately on National Insurance records.
The report said DWP is working with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to understand more about the scale, potential causes and options to correct these cases.
These newly identified errors account for most of the increase in the State Pension underpayment rate from 0.3% to 0.5%.
People may still be able to apply for HRP if, for full tax years (April to April) between 1978 and 2010 - find out more on the GOV.UK website, here.
Former pensions minister, Sir Steve Webb, now a partner at LCP (Lane Clark & Peacock) first highlighted the State Pensions underpayments while working with This Is Money and shared on social media that he raised the HRP issue 14 years ago.
Sir Steve said: “DWP also admit that there are errors on missing 'home responsibilities protection' (credits for parents at home with
The legal team representing four legacy benefits claimants’ who lost a High Court challenge in February over the £20 weekly Universal Credit uplift recently confirmed that an application to appeal the decision has been successful.
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