UK. Has your state pension been underpaid? Pressure grows on government to tackle issue
State pension: Campaigners have launched the next stage in their campaign, as they call on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to use their records to track down all the women who are missing out and receiving underpaid state pension payments.
Pressure on the Government when it comes to the issue of women who have been underpaid via their state pension payments has risen, following the tabling of a new petition on Parliament’s website.
The petition has ben tabled by LCP partner and former pensions minister Sir Steve Webb. It calls on the government to use its records to identify all of the women who are being underpaid.
Currently, the government has said that it will check its records to find those affected in one specific group of women.
These are married women whose husband reached state pension age after March 17, 2008, and whose state pension should have automatically increased when he retired.
The government has promised to report back on how many women it has found and how much it has paid out.
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