New DWP State Pension update on progress of £5,000 back payments due before end of next year
dailyrecord.co.ukThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that payments averaging around £5,000 have started being issued to women who have been underpaid their State Pension due to missing Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) and Universal Credit National Insurance (NI) issues.
Average underpayments of £3,000 have also been identified for pensioners who have since died. 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.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is using NI records to identify as many people as possible who might have been entitled to HRP between 1978 and 2010 and have no HRP on their NI record.
After May 2000, it became mandatory to include a NI number on claims so people claiming after this point will not have been affected.
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