Paying shortfalls in my NI record

Outeast1000

On 13 / 04 / 22 I sent  a voluntary  payment online tp HMRC for a shortfall in my NI contributions to make up the full year where I had only paid 49 weeks . I checked my State Pension forecast today 19 / 4 / 22 and the payment that I made did not show up on the forecast

My question is how long does it take until the voluntary payment that I made shows up on my State Pension forecast record ?

eskbanker

Only two of those six days have actually been working days so that's no time at all really, but in any event it'll be more realistic to have expectations of months rather than days or even weeks....

JGB1955

Definitely months rather than weeks or days....

Terron

Took 2 months for me.

Silvertabby

6 weeks for me, but they were full years and so possibly easier to check than a part year.

SusieT

6 weeks for me, so I would diarise it and check in  5 or 6 weeks after the payment date

MakingUpGround

We made a vol payment earlier this year, we were then told we had to wait 8-12 weeks and re-call back to have the payment allocated towards the correct year. Which we diaried and did when we could 

Crabby

I paid 6 years NI back payments at the beginning of January, they still haven't shown up in my pension statement. 4 months to go till I start receiving it, I'll probably be spending a lot of time "hanging on the telephone" in the coming months.

t0rt0ise

Crabby said:

I paid 6 years NI back payments at the beginning of January, they still haven't shown up in my pension statement. 4 months to go till I start receiving it, I'll probably be spending a lot of time "hanging on the telephone" in the coming months.

You should probably call tax office now and they'll add it to your record immediately otherwise you won't get the correct pension and you'll then be calling about that too. I had that problem. My NI record was updated but not soon enough.

Crabby

I rang them up, the money has just been sitting in their account for 3 months. It's now been allocated to the relevant tax years, it will take 6 - 8 weeks before it shows up on my NI records. Hopefully before I get my letter.

Scrudgy

After 4 months we rang them up to be told the money had been received a long time ago, but not applied to the account. The agent said she would get it done immediately and sure enough everything appeared a few days later.