Home Responsibility Protection

Metman1989

I paid to fill the gaps in my pension due to not working while having children and now I read I could have got HRP payments.  Can I do anything to get some money back?

Voyager2002

There are NEVER any refunds for National Insurance Contributions.

Home Responsibilities Protection is actually very limited: it would only apply to complete financial years during which you were receiving Child Benefit for every single week. (I actually had three years during which I received Child Benefit for about 50 weeks, and I still had to pay for those entire years in order for them to count for my pension.)

p00hsticks

Voyager2002 said:

(I actually had three years during which I received Child Benefit for about 50 weeks, and I still had to pay for those entire years in order for them to count for my pension.)

You may have had to pay to complete those years, but you shouldn't have had to pay the full years rate - just a partial payment to cover the few weeks that you didn't get the Child Benefits creditted. 

sheramber

Was that after 2009? 

Were the children you were claiming can for over  12?