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News: State Pension boosting top-ups blocked for thousands in HMRC error ahead of crucial deadline

MSE_Rosie · 2025-04-08 17:12:57

Thousands of people making requests to check and top up State Pensions were wrongly denied ahead of a crucial deadline to do so on Saturday 5 April, HMRC has confirmed to MoneySavingExpert.com (MSE). But if you were hit by the error, you should be contacted directly and given another chance to fill any gaps in your…

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molerat Posts: 34,951 Forumite

3 July at 11:59AM edited 3 July at 12:07PM

When we were doing this we looked at the overall payback and not the short one in isolation so £755.56 pa for £2532.40 = 3.35 years payback v £684.32 pa for £1625 = 2.37 years payback

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