£1,000,000,000 of pensions underpaid after ‘repeated human errors’

The DWP does not know how many pensioners have been impacted – but believes the figure is around 134,000 (Picture: EPA)Pensioners have been underpaid by more than £1 billion due to repeated human errors, according to a spending watchdog which has blasted the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).The issues were almost inevitable thanks to complex rules and outdated IT systems, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).The DWP does not know how many pensioners it has underpaid but