State pension: DWP ‘still making assessments errors’ impacting women | Personal Finance | Finance
Despite a huge correction exercise currently being undertaken by the DWP on historic state pension awards, errors are still being made on new state pension awards, a former pensions minister has claimed.
Partner at LCP Steve Webb said mistakes are still being made in relation to women who previously paid a reduced rate of National Insurance contributions, commonly known as the ‘married woman’s stamp’.
Sir Steve said: “When DWP admitted to me that they had been making errors for this group of women I assumed that they would have put in place procedures to sort out the problem.
“Yet I continue to hear from women who have been wrongly told that they are not entitled to a pension.”
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