Mrs PN got a 10% uplift.
Who is affected?
Those overpaid include former armed services personnel, NHS staff, teachers and judicial and civil service pensioners.
Looks like the main article was the usual accurate BBC reportage.
Will pensioners have to pay back the money?
Chancellor Alistair Darling has promised that this will not happen but added that it "will be necessary to adjust what's paid for the future". . .
But they won't continue to be overpaid will they?
Not in England they won't. The Cabinet Office says "some pensioners will have their payments reduced and others will see increases in their payments in 2009 which are less than the annual inflation uprating". However the SNP says it will continue to overpay all those pensioners whose payments it has power over in Scotland.
What about ex-patriate Scots?