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NI voluntary contributions
Feeling very frustrated as I have called the Future Pension Center re paying voluntary NI contributions (3 years not full) only to be told I am out of time even though the scheme doesn't finish until 5th April!
Voluntary contributions
Hi everyone, I have a questions on the voluntary contributions for the State Pension. As you can see from the pics attached, I have 3 missing years (2015/2016; 2016/2017; 2017/2018) as I was studying and as I am 44 years old, I can get the State Pension on June 2046. I am planning to move abroad next year. As I need a…
NI contributions
Will someone kindly clarify how many years you can buy NI contributions, I believe the limit as to how many back years you can pay has changed
National insurance contributions
My husband is considering paying some voluntary national insurance contributions to make up incomplete years in his national insurance contributions record. Is it possible for him to take some of my completed years to top up his record?
Can't get into telephone queue for the Future Pension Centre
I have tried countless times to get through to the Future Pension Centre, as advised by MSE, to check how many years I would need to voluntarily contribute for to increase my state pension. However I am unable to get into the queue. I get through all the options and then get cut off in one way or another. Has anyone got…
Voluntary NI
Hi, I contacted the Future Pension Centre a few years ago and paid some voluntary NI contributions to complete a full year. I was given a 16 digit reference number so can someone tell me if I can just use this number to pay a few more years of missing NI contributions (without contacting them again) in order to get the…
Paying Class 2 voluntary NICs whilst living in Canada
My son moved to Canada in 2012 and has been working there ever since. He has no plans to return to the UK. Currently he has 9 years of NICs. I know with the bilateral arrangement with Canada he can use his Canadian equivalent of NI so he meets the eligibility here for the minimum of 10 years. However it appears that he can…
NI record: several years not full, still being checked
I have five years in my National Insurance contribution
record which state ‘year is not full’, although I expect to have a full record
for each of those years as preceding and following years, during which I was in exactly
the same situation, are full. When I click on ‘more details’, I get the following
message: “We are…
Unable to Contact Future Pension Centre
Has anyone else had problems getting in contact with the Future Pension Centre? I've tried calling them 2 or 3 times a day for the last 3 days, staying queued for an average of 20 mins each time before giving up. Would I be better contacting them via their online contact form? I simply want to check that my plan to plug…
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