Retired women owed millions in underpaid state pension

Retired women owed millions in underpaid state pension

The nation’s retired women are being warned to urgently check whether they have been underpaid their state pension after a series of mistakes.

The problem stems from a promise under the old state pension system to pay married women a basic state pension at 60 per cent of the full rate based on their husband’s contributions if it is worth more than their own.

Before March 2008, women had to…

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