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Specific group of older women may be due State Pension back payments of around £12,383 next year
04.12.2023 - 10:33 / dailyrecord.co.uk
New figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that by the end of October, nearly 18,000 widowed older people, mostly women, have received an average of £12,383 in backdated State Pension payments following a review of their entitlement to the contributory benefit.
According to the data, between January 11, 2021 and October 31, 2023, the UK Government has paid £497 million to 82,323 people who have not been receiving the correct amount of State Pension due to historical administrative errors. Nearly 594,00 cases have now been reviewed, including 240,786 for ‘missed conversions’ - these are people who have been widowed and their State Pension was not increased to include any amounts they were entitled to inherit from their late husband, wife or civil partner.
A total of nearly £220m has now been paid out to 17,894 pensioners affected by a ‘missed conversion’, with an average arrears payment of £12,383. It’s important to be aware that this figure could be higher or lower and depends entirely on individual circumstances.
Viscount Younger of Leckie recently told the House of Lords that the overall number of State Pension cases to be reviewed for errors is approximately 678,000 and of those, the DWP estimates that 170,000 people have been underpaid.
Viscount Younger also told peers that the DWP is “on track” to complete the corrections exercise by the end of this year for married women or those in a civil partnership (category BL) and people over 80 (category D), adding that reviewing ‘missed conversion’ cases, will “run to late 2024 - the end of next year”.
Former Lib Dem pensions minister, Sir Steve Webb, now a partner at LCP (Lane Clark & Peacock), first highlighted the State Pensions
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