Payslips

dave_rees

I have tried looking this up but get various answers. How long should I and my wife keep payslips please? 

eskbanker

Depends why you're keeping them really - for HMRC tax reasons the answers are given at https://www.gov.uk/keeping-your-pay-tax-records/how-long-to-keep-your-records

Shakin_Steve

I've got a drawer full of the buggers 

Carrot007

Since they are all pdf's these days they take up no space so no problems! (I shredded all my old ones going back to the 90s when I moved home last!)

MarkFromCornwall

I have them back to 1984 (the early ones are handwritten).

inspectorperez

If she pays pension contributions - forever!!

I would never trust anyone else to maintain full and accurate records of what has been deducted from my gross pay which is going to benefit me in the future.

Shakin_Steve

inspectorperez said:

If she pays pension contributions - forever!!

I would never trust anyone else to maintain full and accurate records of what has been deducted from my gross pay which is going to benefit me in the future.

They would make interesting reading in your retirement. I know my first wage, in 1969, was 7 guineas a week as an apprentice for GPO telephones. 

inspectorperez

Shakin_Steve said:

inspectorperez said:

If she pays pension contributions - forever!!

I would never trust anyone else to maintain full and accurate records of what has been deducted from my gross pay which is going to benefit me in the future.

They would make interesting reading in your retirement. I know my first wage, in 1969, was 7 guineas a week as an apprentice for GPO telephones. 

What!!! They paid you?😃😃 It was only shortly before I started my accountancy training in 1969 that trainees actually started getting paid rather than pay their employer a premium for the privilege of being trained.

Zanderman

inspectorperez said:

If she pays pension contributions - forever!!

I would never trust anyone else to maintain full and accurate records of what has been deducted from my gross pay which is going to benefit me in the future.

Indeed...  a colleague of mine, due to retire this year, has been told by her pension - Teachers - that they have no record of contributions for 2 years, about 20 years back. She's sure she was on the pension scheme then - but has moved post - and around the country - several times since.  They've said payslips would do as evidence - but she doesn't have them, so has to go back to the school, which has changed management system, at least twice, since then.  So they may have difficulty too.  Never trust anyone other than yourself - and keep records!

Ballard

inspectorperez said:

If she pays pension contributions - forever!!

I would never trust anyone else to maintain full and accurate records of what has been deducted from my gross pay which is going to benefit me in the future.

I can log onto my pension account whenever I want and get a list of all of the contributions so I’d be surprised if I’m this day and age all reputable pensions don’t offer something similar. 

You can also log onto a government website which tells you where you are with your stamp contributions. 

General_Grant

Ballard said:

inspectorperez said:

If she pays pension contributions - forever!!

I would never trust anyone else to maintain full and accurate records of what has been deducted from my gross pay which is going to benefit me in the future.

I can log onto my pension account whenever I want and get a list of all of the contributions so I’d be surprised if I’m this day and age all reputable pensions don’t offer something similar. 

You can also log onto a government website which tells you where you are with your stamp contributions. 

I haven't heard NI referred to like that since the last millennium.