Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 57006

State Retirement Pensions: East of England

Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate her Department has made of the number of stay-at-home mothers in (a) Bedfordshire and (b) the East of England who claimed Child Benefit between 1978 and 2000 and may have missed out on rec

Answer

Torsten Bell
The Department estimates in total there are around 210,000 people with State Pension underpayments due to missing Home Responsibilities Protection on their National Insurance record DWP annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024 (HTML) - GOV.UK. Geographical...

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