RAF veteran Alan Fowler, 72, (pictured with his wife Lynda) has an annuity from Legal & General paying a pittance but it refused his pleas for a lump sum.
Married women who retired on small state pensions before April 2016 should get an uplift to 60 per cent of their husband’s payments once he reaches retirement age too.
It is still unclear how errors were made in so many cases. And our new cases reveal a scandalous level of incompetence by the DWP when people approach it for help on their own.
Any saver expressing interest in ditching a final salary pension is to be warned off in a letter telling them it’s unlikely to be in their best interests.
