You need to open and complete this form online. As you cannot save your progress, you should get all your information together before you start. December 2022 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has detailed that carers of a child under 12 and kinship carers can apply for National Insurance (NI) credits. For example, if 2 grandparents provided care for their daughter’s 2 children, there is only one credit available for transfer and the Child Benefit recipient must decide who should have the credit. already have a qualifying year of National Insurance — usually because you work or receive other National Insurance credits

Child benefit is paid to a named individual rather than a couple, and unfortunately in your case it was your husband’s name that was put on the form.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has detailed that carers of a child under 12 and kinship carers can apply for National Insurance (NI) credits.

The child benefit claim form and guidance notes were updated in April 2017 to stress further the importance of making a claim.

For anyone who reached state pension age on or after 6 April 2016, the deferral rate is 1% for every nine weeks you defer, or around 5.8% for every 52 weeks. This increase is applied to the flat-rate state pension, and you need to defer for at least nine weeks to qualify for an uplift.

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Get all of your information together before you start. You will fill this form in online and you cannot save your progress. If you reached state pension age before 6 April 2016 for every five weeks you defer, you'll get a pension increase of 1%. This works out at 10.4% for every full year. Although you can't start taking your state pension before state pension age, you can delay when you start receiving it. The government takes September's CPI inflation and uses the three-month average of weekly earnings from July to help work out what the uprating will be. In the 2020-21 tax year the state pension increased by 3.9% to match the average earnings increase seen by UK workers in July 2019. However, the crucial point regarding your question is that the credits go to the person ‘receiving child benefit’.