State pension errors: HMRC contacts thousands of women over missing payments

HMRC has sent out 325,000 letters so for state pension errors. The average underpayment is £5,400 - could you be affected?

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Thousands of parents (mostly women) who claimed child benefit before 2000 are receiving letters from HMRC explaining that they could be missing state pension payments due to government errors.

The underpayments are worth £5,400 on average.

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Ruth is an award-winning financial journalist with more than 15 years' experience of working on national newspapers, websites and specialist magazines.

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