Campaigners are calling for the Department for Work and Pensions to conduct a full investigation into how many women have missed out on their pensions and how it was allowed to happen.
It is shameful that retired women are being forced to fight hard to get the state pension they deserve. It is estimated these wives, widows and divorcees may now be owed up to £100m in lost income.
Around 130,000 married women could be missing out on a bigger state pension, an investigation has revealed. It is feared that older married women may be owed up to £100million.
The DWP is accused of ‘shocking’ treatment of Rosemary Chattell, pictured left, who lives in a Cheshire care home and is unaware she has been handed the vast sum.
Many grandparents get credits for providing childcare. But normal arrangements have been upended by restrictions to safeguard elderly people and halt the spread of Covid-19.
