{"id":213718,"date":"2025-10-14T22:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/213718\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:11:08","slug":"state-pensioners-could-be-owed-8377-each-after-dwp-error-how-to-claim-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/213718\/","title":{"rendered":"State pensioners could be owed \u00a38,377 each after DWP error – how to claim | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

You could be owed money after plans to delete old pension records have raised fears that some underpaid pensioners<\/a> could lose out. The error could impact people where gaps in National Insurance records were linked to Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) credits.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to make sure you\u2019re not missing out on any money you should be eligible for.<\/p>\n

There are concerns about how long the Government will keep the data for which is needed to correct this issue.<\/p>\n

The DWP<\/a> says it could delete historic pension<\/a> records. While it was doing this before, this action was paused during an earlier correction programme.<\/p>\n

Some are worried this may make it harder to resolve underpayments.<\/p>\n

In its previous annual report, the DWP<\/a> estimated that around 194,000 people could be affected by the HRP error and set aside \u00a31.15 billion to address the issue.<\/p>\n

According to Which?, as of March 31 this year, 12,379 people had been repaid a total of \u00a3104 million, with an average repayment of \u00a38,377.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering how to check if you\u2019ve been impacted, there\u2019s a certain criteria you\u2019ll need to meet.<\/p>\n

If you spent time caring for children or disabled adults between 1978 and 2010, you may be missing National Insurance credits that should count towards your state pension<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New research from the DWP<\/a> has revealed the main reasons why those who have received a letter from HMRC<\/a> asking them to check their State Pension,<\/a> as it may be incorrect, have failed to do so, according to\u00a0Chronicle Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HMRC<\/a> has sent out more than 370,000 letters, mostly to women, urging them to check their State Pension<\/a> payments as they may be lower than they are entitled to.<\/p>\n

You should have received a letter if you\u2019re affected, but if not, you can use the Government\u2019s online tool<\/a> to check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You could be owed money after plans to delete old pension records have raised fears that some underpaid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,16884,131048,186,120828,90411,131050,184,185,9876,131049],"class_list":["post-213718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-dwp","tag-dwp-error","tag-finance","tag-home-responsibilities-protection","tag-national-insurance","tag-national-insurance-credits","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-state-pension","tag-state-pension-underpayment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}