Martin Lewis has sounded the alarm for anyone who took time off work between 1978 and 2010 to look after children or someone with a long-term disability. It turns out that they could be owed up to £10,000 in backdated tax refunds due to a government error.

The money-saving expert shared the warning last month on X , urging Britons to check if they might be eligible for compensation. He wrote: “State Pension error! Did you take time off work (1978 to 2010) to look after children or someone with long-term disability? You could be owed £10,000s.”

He explained that hundreds of thousands of people have National Insurance gaps that were caused by a failure to apply “Home Responsibilities Protection” (HRP), which would have helped protect their State Pension entitlements. According to Lewis,

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