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I wasn't getting at you, in your case I can't understand why this is the case, I get my state pension here and have 87% which was correct for the ammount of stamps I paid, as when I was young you didn't get any stamps paid while you were bringing up children. It seems to me you have got stuck in a wrong loop and no one has the brain to see the money is wrong. I think there is a pensions ombudsman, could you not contact them.

My big gripe is that had I never paid a stamp or had I paid the married womans stamp I would only be £25 a week worse off as my husband would get £57.05 for me even if I hadn't contributed anything. That makes my blood boil when I think of the thousands I paid in.

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jdr, if you have paid in 44 years you should get the full pension.

What reason have they given you for not getting it?

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[QUOTE=anna58;7488417]I wasn't getting at you, in your case I can't understand why this is the case, I get my state pension here and have 87% which was correct for the ammount of stamps I paid, as when I was young you didn't get any stamps paid while you were bringing up children. It seems to me you have got stuck in a wrong loop and no one has the brain to see the money is wrong. I think there is a pensions ombudsman, could you not contact them.

My big gripe is that had I never paid a stamp or had I paid the married womans stamp I would only be £25 a week worse off as my husband would get £57.05 for me even if I hadn't contributed anything. That makes my blood boil when I think of the thousands I paid in.[/QUOTE]

But you would be £25 a week worse off and have to wait until your husband is 65. Now, that may be OK for you, but my mother-in-law was married to a much younger man and still could not draw her pension at 75. So it's always best, imho, to build up your own entitlement.

I'm glad to say I have a full Pension to come next January (26 years NI paid, 13 years HRP).

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[QUOTE=scampicat;7489065]I agree, I like my own pension in my own right and if I were on my own it would be mine, but it doesn't seem fair that someone who hasn't paid in should have a non means tested pension or, put the other way, my husband gets £57 a week less for his contributions than some other blokes. There was no HRP when I was young, and I will only be 62 in January. Maybe I shouldn't have paid, but when you're in your 20s you don't really think of pensions (or you didn't in those days, young ones now do seem to).

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Not enough payments made.
The DWP official said she would check with HM E and C National Insurance Contributions Office and get them to send a bill for any unpaid payments needed for a full pension.
I received a bill for 6 pounds 90 pence which I paid immediatly at the post office and forwarded a copy of the receipt and a letter to DWP asking them to adjust my payment to 100% almost two months ago and have not had a reply yet.
I phoned up and asked what was happening and the girl said "oh it usually takes six to eight weeks for us to receive it here" (DWP International dept)
I think I have either written to or spoke to everybody that works in that department since Oct last year and it is still not sorted out.
They have a better cover up system than Slumberland Duvets.

DWPinSpain also contacted them and has had no luck as yet, maybe the nexy step is the Euro MP or Watchdog or similar, I have tried to be civil over it, but now beginning to believe that a stronger approach is needed. :mad::mad:

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[QUOTE=anna58;7489129]You can get HRP for any child for whom you were receiving Child Benefit after 1978, up to a maximum of 19 years. (Providing you were not paying Married Women's Stamp beforehand).

I am only two years younger than you , my son was born 1980, I have 13 years HRP.

If you think you qualify, give them a ring.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/...state-pens.htm

Hope this helps

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[QUOTE=scampicat;7496997][QUOTE=anna58;7489129]

You can get HRP for any child for whom you were receiving Child Benefit after 1978, up to a maximum of 19 years. (Providing you were not paying Married Women's Stamp beforehand).

I am only two years younger than you , my son was born 1980, I have 13 years HRP.

If you think you qualify, give them a ring.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/...state-pens.htm

Hope this helps[/QUOT

Thanks vey much, I'll certainly ring them. I was at university from 1975-1979, so maybe I've lost my chance, my son was born in 1968.

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Mmmm... looks like the cat has got Mr/Ms DWP's tongue on this issue. Doesn't surprise me... I'd be hanging my head in shame if I had pooped on the disabled from such a high height too :frown: