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Written Question
State Retirement Pensions: Maladministration
Tuesday 19th July 2022

Asked by: Paulette Hamilton (Labour - Birmingham, Erdington)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) currently at pension age or (b) close to pension age have had their state pensions affected by National Insurance contribution underpayments in error in each of the last 5 years.

Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

In May this year, the Department published the report, ‘Fraud and error in the benefit system,’ available on gov.uk [here]. The detailed information requested is not available.