NI Savings

6022tivo

Hi Guys

Cat A 12% - Normal Folk
Cat B 5.85% - Married women and widows entitled to pay reduced National Insurance

I have been paying Cat A all my life and was looking at this with interest.
I am a guy, but also a Widow (Wife died quite a while back) struggled but looked after the kids and did the right thing by working through it etc...

I see no reference to female widows, and I guess this would be unfair anyway?
Cat B says Married Woman and Widows, not female Widows??


Am I being stupid and misunderstanding, or have I been paying too much NI for a decade or so??

xylophone

History here

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/181235/derived-inherited-entitlement.pdf

badger09

Male 'widow' = widower?

heatherw_01

Female = widow
Male = widower
so they are mentioned

6022tivo

I was think when people say Manager and Manageress. The later rarely gets used for both sex.

So, in 2019 the Woman is expected to be the house wife, and the male the main breadwinner?

So Cat b is not something that can be applicable to Men?

p00hsticks

6022tivo wrote: »

So Cat b is not something that can be applicable to Men?

No - and there can't be many married women still paying it, as it is only still available to those who opted to pay it prior to April 1977


https://www.gov.uk/reduced-national-insurance-married-women