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we wouldn t have got anywhere. l the public accounts committee found errors dating back to 1985. more than 130,000 pensioners, mainly women, were under paid a total of £1 billion. 0utdated computer systems, manual processing, and complacency in monitoring errors have all been blamed. around 40,000 women have already died without receiving the money they are owed there s no plan to trace theirfamilies. the dwp needs to sort out the air and get cracking with making sure that people in their estates, when they ve died, have the payments that they are owed. but they also need to make sure they are sorting out their it systems for the future and crucially, we want to see proper compensation. some women will now be fully repaid. but others, like jan in fife, can only backdate claims for 12 months that s because of when her husband retired. she believes she s due £17,000. i first spoke to her last year.
the errors, which mainly affect women, date back as far as 1985, with some owed as much as £128,000. the department for work and pensions says it s resolving cases as quickly as possible, but its efforts have been described as ineffective. sarah corker reports. for four decades, thousands of women across the uk have been underpaid their state pensions. some are owed life changing amounts of money. the bbc has heard from those who have had to fight to get errors corrected. you expect that the pension department won t make errors, really. itjust doesn t seem right when so much time has been lost, and so much money has been lost in the interim. if we hadn t have been persistent, we wouldn t have got anywhere. l the public accounts committee found errors dating back to 1985. more than 130,000 pensioners, mainly women, were under paid a total of £1 billion. outdated computer systems, manual processing, and complacency