WHy is my partner not paying NI?

shezam

Hi all, partner started a new job 2 years ago minimum wage, 37.5 hours a week but he has council tax & csa to pay so his final pay is £186 I've only just seen his payslip and turns out he's not paying any national insurance, i'm worried he won't be paying anything then if he gets made reduntant or anything he won't have enough "stamps" to claim benefits.

His tax code is 810L is this normal for 2012/2013? Thanks in advance

chrisbur

Is there a letter on his payslip to show what band of NI his employer has him on. Letters used sart at A and go B C D up to about J or K from memory. From what you have said assuming that this is his only job there is some sort of error somewhere.

xylophone

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ni/intro/basics.htm

shezam

no letters of any sort. just
paye tax - £15.40
national insurance - £0.00

would it have been his duty to have checked this and sorted it out earlier? i'm scared he's going to get hit with a big bill!

chrisbur

shezam wrote: »

no letters of any sort. just
paye tax - £15.40
national insurance - £0.00

would it have been his duty to have checked this and sorted it out earlier? i'm scared he's going to get hit with a big bill!

Needs to check with employer what is going on, just a guess but they may have wrongly put him down for NI on one of the bands that the employer does not pay. Does the payslip show an employers NI payment. Do you have last years P60 this should show the NI letter?

Just a thought he is not over pension age is he?

shezam

the payslip says

Total gross pay to date - £8081.92
Tax paid to date - £244
Earnings for NI to date - £0.00
National Insurance to date - £0.00

I seriously don't think he ever looks at his payslips, he gets handed them and they get put in a drawer, wasn't untill I was tidying out the drawaer that I noticed. I'll tell him to check on Monday.

If there was a serious problem would HMRC have contacted him by now? Like if his NI contributions were short?

shezam

oh, he's not over pension age only 32! haha x

patanne

The only way he should be paying zero NI is if he is over 65. If he is then the employer should pay but not the employee. If you can find his P60 from last year it should have his NI code - if that is C they have him as over 65

Sorry cross posted there

chrisbur

00ec25 wrote: »

it was foolish of him to ignore it (if he did) but he is an employee so the liability for the error rests with his employer not with him

Not quite as simple as that, if the error was "made in good faith" (no idea how that is decided) then at least some of the underpayment could be collected by the employer, the extra is limited to doubling the NI that falls due each payday and can only be collected in the tax year it is discovered and the following tax year.

McKneff

He really needs to speak to his employer, they should be deducting it.

He should be paying 12%

shezam

had a rummage in the drawer, and found his p60 ending 5th april 2012

It says
NIC table letter X
all the national insurance contribution parts have 0 in them.