HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will write to people, many of them older women, to find out if they have information missing from their national insurance (NI) records which could affect their state pension. Some people may have home responsibilities protection (HRP) missing from their NI records.
HRP was a scheme to help protect parents' and carers' entitlement to the state pension and NI credits replaced HRP from April 6, 2010. HMRC will start contacting those affected from autumn 2023 in phases, in order of how close they are to state pension age.
Those over state pension age will be contacted first. Some people affected may have died and their families will be entitled to check their eligibility and make a claim for any arrears.
