student job and NI threshold

moneynewsaver

Hello,

Does anyone know what the NI rate starts at from wage deductions? I've started a new job, 20 hours and better money, and I earnt £178.20 last week and they deducted £2.54. Not much I know, right. But I thought that as I will earn less than 10k per year and this is less than the tax threshold that I wouldn't pay any contributions. So now I'm unsure? Can anybody help, please? Thanks

PasturesNew

Even though a student, for each week that you earn over the threshold you will pay NI. It is not cumulative across the year, you cannot claim it back.

That's just how it works. So your payslip is correct.

moneynewsaver

thanks for the help, no need for the personal little dig, AGRINNALL ...I may be a student but at 46 with 2 teen daughters and a dying elderly parent, new night job, deadlines and Christmas and I thought this was a friendly place so just don't lecture me right now I doubt you would do it to my face.... "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"

agrinnall

Well, I'll remember you for next time and not bother to waste my time giving you exactly the answer that you were looking for.

moneynewsaver

Do that because you can't help having personal little digs! first, it was ", I'm disappointed that any student is incapable of doing this." Because clearly, you were talking down to some perceived (18 year old) student and secondly when I did thank you but asked you not to have a dig you go back to "I'll remember you etc.," Fine you are helpful but kind of horrid and do it with a superiority of talking down to someone. My Mother is dying of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and you MISSED my point of being kind as you don't know what anybody you are dealing with via your keyboard is going through. Just be nice.

agrinnall

Or you could have ignored the comment you didn't like, and either said thanks for the entirely accurate answer I gave you, or just said nothing. But no, you decided to get personal.

McKneff

be nice folks......

Tom99

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I expect there would be far fewer questions on this forum if every one that could be answered with a bit or research on google were removed.

[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Luckily most people are polite in giving a reply and do not feel the need to resort to sarcasm.[/FONT]

moneynewsaver

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Lokolo

moneynewsaver, I am sorry if you felt this way but you're reaction to agrinnall's original post was over the top.

Your question can be answered very easily with a bit of googling. Mental health issues and/or personal circumstances do not effect people's ability to at least try and do some of their own research and has nothing to do with this thread or the question you asked. The response may have been a little sarcastic, but rightly so. Agrinall's answer was also correct and had the right information.

The code of conduct to be respectable is primarily for the DFW and Bankruptcy area where these can massively effect someones financial circumstances and their life. Your question does not.

agrinnall

Lokolo wrote: »

The response may have been a little sarcastic, but rightly so. Agrinall's answer was also correct and had the right information.

As my post and it's correct answer has now been removed it's probably not going to mean much to anyone who hadn't seen it, but it wasn't meant sarcastically, what it meant was that any student who was unable to perform what is a pretty simple search to find the answer themself is going to find studying in the 21st century quite difficult. At that time I had no idea of the OP's circumstances, but I would have said the same whoever had posted.

As it happens, if the OP had said they are 46 in the first place I might well have commented that they should also have had plenty of opportunity in the previous 20+ years to gain a basic knowledge of NI, which an 18 year old student might well not have.