MPs Slam DWP Over Historic Pension Payments.
Jan 21, 2022 6:38:36 GMT
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Post by gordo on Jan 21, 2022 6:38:36 GMT
This is yet another condemnation of DWP from MPs, this time over historic miscalculations in paying out pensions.
From BBC News (BBC News online) ................
Women's pension shortfall shameful, say MPs
A damning report says errors could be repeated after 134,000 people were underpaid their state pension.
".......... A £1bn shortfall in state pension payments to tens of thousands of women has been branded "a shameful shambles" by a committee of MPs.
A total of 134,000 pensioners missed out on their full entitlement owing to errors at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) dating back to 1985.
Some of those failures risked being repeated during a correction programme, the Public Accounts Committee said.
The DWP said it was resolving cases as quickly as possible. ................."
From BBC News (BBC News online) ................
Women's pension shortfall shameful, say MPs
A damning report says errors could be repeated after 134,000 people were underpaid their state pension.
".......... A £1bn shortfall in state pension payments to tens of thousands of women has been branded "a shameful shambles" by a committee of MPs.
A total of 134,000 pensioners missed out on their full entitlement owing to errors at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) dating back to 1985.
Some of those failures risked being repeated during a correction programme, the Public Accounts Committee said.
The DWP said it was resolving cases as quickly as possible. ................."