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Hundreds of veterans’ pensions cut by over £500-a-year from Christmas due to computer error
Hundreds of
military veterans’ pensions are being cut by up to £600-a-year due to a computer error that led to years of overpayments,
i can reveal.
As the nation prepares to commemorate Remembrance Sunday, veterans have received letters from Equiniti Paymaster, the firm that manages the Armed Forces
Pension Scheme on behalf of the Government, informing them of cuts to their monthly payments.
The reduction follows an investigation by
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) into computer errors that the tax authority now claims led to, in some cases, decades of over payments to veterans…….