My husband assumed I would be awarded some of the ‘state earnings-related pension’ into my widow’s pension and telephoned the DWP several times to check this out.
Tens of thousands of women are owed a fortune in lost state pension due to a massive blunder uncovered by This is Money, and we understand an official investigation is now under way.
Over-75s must start buying £157.50 annual TV licences , but are being told to wait for a letter before doing anything – and meanwhile the poorest pensioners will still get them for free.
‘Labour wants to know how many women have been affected, who they are and how the Government plans to contact them all,’ says Shadow Pensions Minister Jack Dromey.
When women became eligible to a state pension worth 60 per cent of their husband’s, the information was not sent to them, but included in the pack sent to their husband.
