State pension top-ups backlog is 'six to eight months' a retiree is told by the DWP
Sharon Gray, pictured, a retired civil servant from Herefordshire who paid £6,000 in March, was informed that this was the current wait time by a DWP staff member.
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22 days ago
Bereaved families CAN still pursue cases of underpaid state pension, an MP discovers
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The DWP told Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions spokesman Steve Darling it could still review state pension awards despite deletion of old records.
29 days ago
One in six Britons have more than £50,000 in savings… how do YOU compare?
We break down recent DWP figures which show just how much Britons have saved - and the number of people with nothing to fall back on.
35 days ago
Shock DWP letters tell bereaved relatives underpaid state pension investigation is OVER
Many elderly women died while unwittingly being underpaid untold sums in a state pension scandal uncovered by Steve Webb and This is Money.
Freeloader who moaned that claiming benefits is harder than working full time jets off to Japan for a dream trip paid for by the taxpayer
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Joshua Bishop - not his real name - went viral last year when he shared what the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) make him do to keep his unemployment benefit is harder than having a job.
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Unpaid carer wins overpayment penalty case against DWP
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Andrea Tucker has overturned the demand for £4,600 in carer’s allowance overpayments for alleged breaches in benefit rules
Unpaid carer Andrea Tucker has won a legal victory against the Department for…
84 days ago
Bereaved families asked to return pension overpayments
A former pensions minister says the DWP does not make it clear to families the repayments are voluntary.
3 months ago
AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’
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Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up
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4 months ago
Tens of thousands of pensioners might not get winter fuel payment by Christmas as DWP struggles to deal with huge backlog
Tens of thousands of elderly people could face a choice between heating and eating this Christmas after changes to the rules surrounding winter fuel payments created a huge backlog of claims.
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