11 h. ago Pensioners could be owed up to £11,725 due to £805m DWP blunder — how to see if it's you

The Department for Work and Pensions made a huge £805million blunder and because of it, pensioners could be owed staggering amounts of money. Here is everything you need to know

Economics

3 d. ago Nearly 140,000 pensioners underpaid by DWP with £800 million owed

The government predicts all cases will be resolved by the end of March 2027

Economics

3 d. ago DWP state pension error as thousands owed up to £11,725 in underpayments

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has released its latest figures on state pension errors, with hundreds of millions of pounds having been paid in arrears to those who were underpaid

Economics

3 d. ago How to claim pension tax relief: Are YOU missing out on an HMRC refund?

Plenty of eligible higher and additional rate taxpayers fail to claim the pension tax relief they are due. Here's our guide to getting a refund...

Economics

4 d. ago DWP issues state pension back payment update with thousands of people owed up to £11,725

New figures released today show that £804.7million has been paid out for the first DWP state pension correction exercised, with 130,000 people found to have been underpaid

Economics

4 d. ago New State Pension back payment update for older women due up to £11,725 from DWP

DWP has identified nearly 131,000 State Pension Underpayments, owed a total of £804.7 million.

Economics

5 d. ago ‘You don’t expect your own children to do this’: Ray’s shocking tale of elder abuse and the son who stole $230,000

Experts call for redesign of financial services and improved Centrelink processes to protect older Australians from fraudGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe fraud began when Ray Baird, then 65, asked his son Peter for help dealing with the bank. In the years that followed, Peter gained access to his dad’s bank accounts, diverted Ray’s aged pension to his own bank account and ran up debts in his father’s name that led to two caveats being put on Ray’s home.By the time the fraud was uncovered and Ray, then 74, began to untangle the lies his son had spun, Peter had taken more than $230,000 from him, including seven years of pension totalling $152,423.33. Continue reading...

Events

9 d. ago DWP State Pensioners could be owed extra cash for living costs

The DWP has released new information on the number of people claiming the State Pension, as well as the Pension Credit

Economics

1 week ago Pensioners who devote life to owls 'devastated' after sanctuary ruined by 'mindless' vandals

Malcom Jones, 86, who has run the haven for injured birds for nearly 30 years now can't visit because of the damage

Politics

3 w. ago DWP urges 370,000 people to check State Pension as they may be owed thousands

The DWP has been working to rectify historical State Pension errors and has now urged hundreds of thousands of people to check their entitlements as they may be owed thousands

Politics

3 w. ago Man, 23, beat pensioner, 87, to death with his own walking stick

It was a random attack in which Sekai Miles, 23, also gouged out one of 87-year-old Bernard Fowler's eyes

Events

3 w. ago Older people living on their own could be due annual State Pension boost of £4,200

Pension Credit claims can be backdated by up to three months and provide access to heating help next winter.

Economics

4 w. ago A thousand steelworkers lost their pensions 20 years ago. They are still owed money and many have died

1,000 workers in one of Cardiff's largest steelworks lost their pensions more than two decades ago

Economics