Elderly urged to check for historical pension pay errors

Older people living in Lanarkshire are urged to check for historical State Pension payment error worth over £8300.

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said that between January 8 last year and March 31 this year, a joint State Pensions corrections exercise with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), identified 12,379 State Pension underpayments to women whose National Insurance (NI) records are incorrect.

In 2022, the DWP became aware of a number of State Pension cases where it appeared that historic periods of Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) were missing, leading to inaccurate State Pension payments. So far, around £104 million in arrears have been paid out, with an average payment of £8377.