State Pension, PIP, Universal Credit and other benefit payment dates over Christmas and New YearĭWP confirmed earlier this year it is ‘on track’ to complete the exercise by the end of this year for married women (category BL) and those over 80 (category D).

Specific group of older women may be due State Pension back payments of around £12,383 next year.

Some married women, people in a civil partnership, widows and those over 80 may have been underpaid because their current State Pension payment does not include additional entitlements.

The data also indicates that 595,964 State Pension awards have been reviewed, with average payouts ranging from between £2,245 and £12,383. New figures published by the DWP into progress of cases reviewed for possible underpayments show that between Januand October 31, 2023, the checking process has identified 82,323 underpayments, owed a total of £497 million. Some 12.6 million people are in receipt of the State Pension and it’s important to be aware the majority of payments are correct, but some people - mostly women - have received less than they should from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Thousands of older women could be due backdated State Pension underpayments worth an average of £5,931 before the end of December.

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