Military spouse pension credit.
 

Has your spouse claimed it yet?

https://www.moneywise.co.uk/news/201...s-out-millions

Al, thank you, passed on to daughter, they have had two tours so . . .

My son noticed a small article about this in a Sunday newspaper, quite some time ago and pointed it out to his mother. She successfully claimed three years of her "missing" NI stamp payments, lost when I was posted to Germany.

It was appropriate that my son found the article because he was born during that tour!

Would this apply to wives of personnel on seconded service in Europe I wonder?

I was greatly interested in this ... until I read the bit about "1953" ! grrrr!

My thanks also. Passed onto son (2 + years into accompanied tour).

It applies to any women born after 5 April 1953. Cut from the moneywise article.

I am sure there’s a very good reason but why, does anybody have a clue? Perhaps my 4 accompanied overseas postings weren’t so good after all.:(

Edit: Just calmed down and read all the replies and seen that Fantom shares my angst.

1953
 

Is it anything to do with the fact that women born before that had an earlier retirement age? Maybe that was a good enough deal in itself?

Just my guess without having done any research.

BV

My daughter says that in her case the P-Staff at both locations gave her the information and assistance in claiming. Al's advice is clearly more applicable to those who had tours before this was in effect.

It should apply to RAF Valley tours. My wife gave up a career to accompany me there but was not able to get a job in the local area because of a lack of Welsh language. Hardly different to being abroad.

It should apply to many RAF stations. As soon as a potential employer sussed that the interviewee was an RAF wife, and therefore only likely to be on scene for a couple of years, the chance of getting the job were the square root of zero.

As far as the "cutoff" date goes, my wife had accrued enough credits until she was informed her that her pensionable age had been delayed from 60 to 66; a really dirty trick which caught many others, too.

It also appears that Child Benefit payment records have been conveniently 'misplaced' when it comes to claiming back credits. Mrs Winterland has been told she is only entitled to a few years, some 8 short of the time we moved overseas as thats all they have record of. We have payment details through bank records. Still ongoing!

My wife fails all 3!


Overseas in Cyprus 1962-64
Not divorced or widowed
Born before 1953


So zilch!

But presumably in receipt of a pension from the age of 60?

Yes, but it was a very small one, that increased on the strength of my contributions, when I reached 65.

But because of where we live, neither of us have had an increase since 2002!

15 years and counting.