{"id":1142,"date":"2018-03-22T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2018-03-22T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:38:16","slug":"mps-warn-thousands-of-middle-class-mothers-could-lose-up-to-23000-off-their-state-pensions-as-they-did-not-register-for-child-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/mps-warn-thousands-of-middle-class-mothers-could-lose-up-to-23000-off-their-state-pensions-as-they-did-not-register-for-child-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;MPs warn thousands of middle-class mothers could lose up to \u00a323,000 off their state pensions as they did not register for child benefit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever had to claim a benefit of any kind, you may have found yourself wondering rather patronisingly how those who \u2018really need it\u2019 can ever make sense of the forms and the system and whether it\u2019s actually worth bothering. Many couples, with a non-working (usually) Mum and 40% taxpaying (usually) Dad thought just that when the means-testing of Child Benefit was controversially introduced.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you\u2019d read the small print, you wouldn\u2019t have known that, for the stay-at-home to keep their National Insurance track record, they\u2019d need to go through the palaver of registering for then not taking benefit.\u00a0 And for those that hadn\u2019t realised, our the government\u2019s saying \u2018tough\u2019. Caring and sharing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5507991\/MPs-warn-middle-class-mothers-lose-23-000-pensions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever had to claim a benefit of any kind, you may have found yourself wondering rather patronisingly how those who \u2018really need it\u2019 can ever make sense of the forms and the system and whether it\u2019s actually worth bothering. Many couples, with a non-working (usually) Mum and 40% taxpaying (usually) Dad thought just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[19,124,250],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}