NIM41415 - Home Responsibilities Protection: Recording and using HRP: State Second Pension

Additional Pension and Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

From April 2002, the State Second Pension reformed the State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme (SERPS). In particular, for the first time, people who do not work, or who earn very little, may be able to receive extra pension, if throughout a year, they are:

• awarded Child Benefit for a child under age 6
• entitled to Carer's Allowance or
• getting HRP because they are caring for an ill or disabled person.