Can I transfer my child benefit NI credits to my husband from 2006

From 2006 I have always worked and my husband has taken care of our children. I didn’t realise until recently that the person receiving the Child benefit gets the NI credits. Can I transfer these to my husband? As he has several years gaps on his NI record . Thank you

Hi Busybee101,

It is possible to transfer Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) and Child Benefit credits to your husband’s National Insurance account.
HRP ran until the 2009-2010 tax year so if you’d like this transferred then please complete and return our form:-
CF411 Apply for Home Responsibilities Protection .  
If you’d like to transfer Child Benefit credits (which started from the 2010-2011 tax year) then please complete and return our form:-
CF411A Apply for National Insurance credits if you’re a parent or carer.  
Our Team will then look at your applications and transfer the credits if appropriate.

Thank you.

Hello, I have received Child benefit and NI Credit. I would like to transfer NI Credits to my spouse to fill in the gaps in his NI record. 1. Is the following possible? For eg. if I have received NI credit in 2013-14, can it be transferred to my spouse for 2016-17 because he has got a gap in 2016-17 but no gap in 2013-14. I am asking if NI credit can be transferred to another year for my spouse. 2. If the answer to the above question is yes then: in the online version of form CF411A, if I mention start date of credits entitlement: 06/04/2010 and end date of credits entitlement: 05/04/2018, will the case worker transfer all my NI credits in this date rage to where ever there are gaps in my spouse has gaps. What I mean is (for eg.) transfer 2010 NI credit to spouse's 2016 to fill in the gap, 2011 credit to spouse's 2017 to fill in the gap, 2012 credit to spouse's 2017 to fill in the gap and 2013 credit to spouse's 2018 to fill in the gap. If the answer to the above egs. is No then I assume the only option available is to transfer NI credits for the same tax year. Kindly clarify. Thanks 

Hi,
The NI credits associated with a claim to Child Benefit can only be transferred to your spouse to be credited to the same year.
So in the specific scenario you describe, 2013-14 NI credits can only be transferred from you to your spouse and noted on their record for 2013-14 and not for a later or earlier year.
If, using the same example, your spouse did not have a gap in the 2013-14 year, we would not transfer the credits from your NI record
Thank you

 

From 2010 I have looked after my son, who was born in 2010. But Child Benefit is for my husband. I discovered that I have from 2010 to 2018 a gap year, because I have only Child Benefit for my daughter, who was born 2017. Is it possibly that my husband give National Insurance credits for these years to me, because ha has worked too. In that time it was the main reason that my husband has get Child Benefit for my sons because when I came here I was not talking in English, so it was better for him to communicate with the HMRC.

Hi Mena M.,
To see if Child Benefit Credits may be transferred from your husband’s National Insurance account to yours, may I ask that you download form CF411A and ask your
husband to complete and return it to us.  
You may download the CF411A via:  Apply for National Insurance credits if you’re a parent or carer
Thank you.