This year Sir Steve Webb and This is Money revealed a pension payment scandal
Women who retired before April 2016 can claim 60% of husband s basic pension
It s paid automatically when husbands hit pension age after March 2008
Wives whose husbands hit pension age earlier had to make claims themselves
Now they can only claim back money they missed out on over the past 12 months
Tens of millions of pounds has already been paid back to women who missed out