DWP to repay UK households £12,383 this year - with full list published

The DWP will repay the money to a large number of women who were found to have been underpaid their state pension.

State pensioners who are due the Department for Work and Pensions payouts worth up to £12,383 this year have been revealed. The DWP will repay the money to a large number of women who were found to have been underpaid their state pension.

The latest figures revealed that between January 2021 and October 2023, the DWP identified 82,323 underpayments – the payouts for these underpayments totalled £497million. 37,488 married pensioners received an average payment of £5,931 each, DWP figures and stats show.

Government data also shows more than 26,940 people over the age of 80 got an average of £2,245 each and a total of 17,894 widowed retirees were paid out an average of £12,383 per each person. The total amount for payouts is expected to be around £1.17billion and around 170,000 pensioners are believed to be owed money

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According to the DWP’s update, three groups were affected by underpayments. Category BL (or known as Cat BL) were affected – i.e. people who were married or in a civil partnership who reached state pension age before April 6, 2016 and should’ve been entitled to a Category BL uplift based on their partner’s National Insurance contributions.

Others affected included missed conversions – or people who have been widowed and their state pension was not increased to include any amounts they were entitled to inherit from their late husband, wife or civil partner. The third and final category is known as Category D (or known as Cat D).

The DWP and government says this relates to people and claimants who reached age 80 and who were getting some basic state pension but less than £85.00 (in 2022 and also in 2023) and may therefore, subject to satisfying the appropriate residency conditions, be entitled to Cat D state pension of £85.00 a week.