Cope Serps and all that jazz

Jonty6262

Silvertabby said:

Tony_J said:

Thanks very much xylophone,
I've had a quick look at the link and will read through more carefully to understand the logic. 

As a matter of interest does anyone know if the state pension calculations provided are ever/rarely/sometimes/often inaccurate

I would say that it would be a statistical impossibility for all State pension calculations to be 100% correct 100% of the time.

But, thinking about it, (apart from the married women who didn't receive the right amount based on their husband's contributions, which is currently being addressed) I don't recall any posts on these boards from people who had been given the wrong pensions.

Even a case a couple of years ago, in which a man was given several KXs of arrears, to great hooha from the press, wasn't 'wrong'.  The chap had simply not claimed his pension for whatever reason.

I wasn't approaching retirement at the time but i once enquired about my SP and after getting a reply that seemed low to me I dug deeper and it was later investigated and the amount I could expect was approx £13 a week short of what they originally told me. They put it down to an administration error. This was before the 2016 changes.I did have to ask officially for them to check and even suggested to them an error that was possibly at fault at their end. It happens at times but is unusual.