State pensioners were underpaid £470m in a year

STATE pensioners missed out on some £470million through underpayments over the past financial year, officials have revealed.

- Nicholas Dawson

And Helen Morrissey, head of retirement analysis at Hargreaves Lansdown, told OAPS that "it pays to check" what you receive.

She explained: "The key reason behind errors in payments is inaccuracies around National Insurance records.

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"There have been cases of groups who have not received the uplifts they were entitled to under the basic state pension system when their partners died, for instance.