Money expert Martin Lewis’ Money Saving Expert website has urged people to claim back payments of an average of £6,000 that they could be missing out on if they took time off work in certain years.

MSE says that a system put in place to protect the state pension entitlement of people who chose to take time off work has been ‘beset with errors’ and as a result hundreds of thousands of people could be owed cash back payments.

Anyone who took time off between 1978 and 2010, is currently…