DWP OWES UK WOMEN £11,725: The State Pension Error Most Never Hear (2026)

Описание: DWP has formally acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of people — overwhelmingly women in their seventies, eighties, and nineties — have been underpaid State Pension for years, in some cases decades, due to four separate administrative errors. A correction exercise has been running since 2021. It has not reached everyone affected, and many of those it should reach have died without ever knowing.
In this video:

Category BL: married women whose pension was never automatically uplifted to 60% of their husband's after March 2008 — and how a small weekly shortfall becomes a five-figure back-payment
Widows: why a State Pension that "continued exactly as before" after a husband's death may mean inherited additional pension was never added
The over-80 pension (Category D): the non-automatic top-up that a significant number of people with very low basic pensions have never claimed
Divorced women: how a former spouse's National Insurance record could have boosted a pension that was never recalculated
The single phone call that checks all four categories — for yourself or for a parent

Free guide — arthursterling.co.uk/guide
Sources:

→ DWP State Pension underpayment correction exercise (LEAP)

→ National Audit Office: "Investigation into State Pension underpayments"

→ DWP Pension Service: 0800 731 7898

→ gov.uk/state-pension


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