Carer’s Allowance claimants can boost state pension forecast with credit worth £260 a year

It means that either for 10 years, a person was doing at least one or more of the following:

Working and paying National Insurance contributions

Getting National Insurance credits – such as if they were unemployed, ill or a parent or carer

Paying voluntary National Insurance contributions.

Currently, the full new state pension is £175.20 per week.

However, the actual amount that one gets depends on their National Insurance record.

If a person didn’t make National Insurance contributions or get National Insurance credits before April 6 2016, then their state pension will be calculated entirely under the new rules.