The underpayment affects women in their 60s and 70s who may have credits missing from their National Insurance record.
HM Revenue and Customs will start writing to thousands of older people this month who may have been underpaid an average of £5,000 on their State Pension due to missing information on their National Insurance record. The issue affects mostly women in their 60s and 70s who may have Home Responsibilities Protection missing from their NI record.
HRP was a scheme designed to help protect parents’ and carers’ entitlement to the State Pension and was replaced by NI Credits from April 6, 2010. HMRC is using NI records to identify as many people as possible - Rightsent reports up to 700,000 - who may have been entitled to HRP between 1978 and 2010 and have no HRP on their NI record.
Some people affected may have died and their families will be entitled to check their eligibility and make a claim for any arrears - find out more about this here. She continued: “HMRC is to start contacting those potentially affected in the autumn but given the experience of other groups affected by underpayments we know it’s going to be a long process and many people face significant waits before receiving what they are due.
State Pension underpayment progress - March 2023 Payments made between January 2021 and March 2023 are listed below.
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