'My mum won £89k after being underpaid state pension - then the taxman called'
Steve Webb, partner at consultants LCP who unearthed the pension underpayment problem said: "It is adding insult to injury to put new hurdles in the place of those who have been underpaid state pension for years or even decades.
It mostly affects those who first claimed the state pension before April 2016 who didn't have a full national insurance record. Those affected by the error identified by the DWP are pensioners who first claimed the state pension before April 2016 and did not have a full national insurance record.
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