A crucial deadline is fast approaching for the DWP, and if you were born in a specific decade, you could be in line for a £2,950 payment. But time is running out — will you be one of the lucky ones to claim? WATCH NOW to find out if you qualify before it’s too late

A key deadline is approaching for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to complete checks into historic State Pension underpayments — and people born in the 1950s are among those most likely to be affected.

The review focuses on long-standing errors that mainly impacted married women, widows and people over 80 whose State Pension was not increased correctly for years. In many cases, the underpayment was only discovered decades later.

According to official figures, the average back payment for those affected is around £2,950, although some people have received significantly more.

The DWP has been carrying out automatic corrections, but campaigners continue to warn that not everyone who is owed money has been identified yet. Families of elderly claimants are also being urged to check whether relatives may have been underpaid.

With the final stages of the correction programme now underway, experts say this could be one of the last chances for missing cases to be picked up before the review closes.

For people born in the 1950s, the message is clear: it may be worth checking your State Pension record — before time runs out.