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Under Payment of State Pension with Unemployability Supplement

A number of recipients of the state retirement pension (SRP), who also receive war pensions unemployability supplement (UNSUPP) from MOD, are due arrears or have been underpaid by Department for Work & Pensions (DWP).

This dates from April 2006 when a change in legislation authorised DWP to pay, with the SRP, the difference between UNSUPP and the Basic State Pension (BSP). It appears some people received payment from April 2008 of the difference of £1.00 pw, without application or notification that arrears were payable from April 2006.   The difference arose when the Basic State Pension was increased above RPI, but UNSUPP was not.

If you have been receiving UNSUPP instead of, or as well as, SRP since 2006, this may affect you and you should ask the DWP Office dealing with your SRP to check your payments (mentioning that you receive war pensions UNUPP) and to assess if any arrears are due.