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Home Responsibilities Protection: did you claim child benefit before May 2000?
Some parents and carers who claimed child benefit before May 2000 may have missed out on Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP), a scheme designed to protect their state pension entitlement. HMRC are writing to people who they think might be affected to explain how they can check and claim for missi...