Pension delay left me close to 'penniless and starving I switched my Lloyds TSB bank account to the Halifax but my weekly state pension has not been transferred. The Halifax switching service assures me they have sent two letters to the International Pension Centre, and I have also sent a letter to this address. The £150 a week represents half of my income and I have not received payments for five weeks. I am on my way to being penniless and starving. Can you please inject some life into the Pension Service and get my missing payments - some £750 - into my Halifax account as soon as possible? The Department for Work & Pensions said my contact had been the first there had been about the account change. Having obtained this information via my involvement, it then activated the switch and indeed you now have your money. I pushed Halifax to produce evidence that it had requested the transfer and, after a blip in providing it, it was able to come up with copies of two letters. However, the DWP still says its best endeavours have been unable to trace them.