The Pensions Advisory Service (PAS) state that people who earn less than £95 per job undertaken they are not entitled to pension credits.
Staff in these circumstances are often filled by women, which means that thousands of women are missing out on a state pension.
The government has promised to make the pension system for fairer to women from 2010.
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