EXCLUSIVE: Admin failings depriving late retirees of extra state pension

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Many workers who delay taking their company pension are missing out on increases to their state pension because of administrative failings, warn legal experts.

Members of contracted out schemes who joined before April 1997 are entitled to a late payment increment on the guaranteed minimum pension (GMP) part of their occupational pension when they delay re...

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