Topping up your state pension

I have checked by NI contributions on line and want to pay for a year I missed in 2015-2016. It will allow me to stop work and year earlier and know my contributions are up to date. However when I try to pay I keep getting asked for my 18 digit National Insurance Reference Number which starts 60. I have checked all my…

I am trying desperately to fill in the gaps in my national insurance record by paying the shortfalls in various years as last week mse program advised. In order to pay, it's not clear what to do apart from contact the future pension service. Tried this three times. Each time the phone is hung up/cut off immediately. Same…

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!

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

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? 

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…