Paying Voluntary Class 2 NIC top up

jh1407

I am currently 63 and in receipt of an actuarily reduced teachers pension, having retired at 55 in 2014.

I will according to the government forecast be 6 years short of contributions to receive the full state pension at 66 and 1 month.

I have recently undertaken some exam invigilation in my local school, and have read on GOV.UK website that for NIC only, invigilators are considered as eligible to pay voluntary Class 2 contributions for the year.

Given that I am employed by the school to carry out invigilation, does anyone have any thoughts on what I need to do in order to pay the voluntary Class 2 NIC to give me an additional years state pension contribution.

Do I need to register as self employed or is there some other mechanism in need to follow.

If this is possible I intend to do this for subsequent years and to buy any additional shortfall at voluntary class 3 as required nearer the time of my accessing SP.

TIA

Marcon

MSE's guide should help: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/voluntary-national-insurance-contributions/?_ga=2.64541039.1713455916.1655558162-1317812496.1608996972&_gl=1*qhiqur*_ga*MTMxNzgxMjQ5Ni4xNjA4OTk2OTcy*_ga_X74CWQS9F0*MTY1NTYzMzgwMC4xMDQuMS4xNjU1NjMzODU2LjQ.

jh1407

Thank you for the link provided it provided some interesting reading.

However it does not give any insight into the main question I had around whether given that I am being employed by the school to carry out invigilation duties, how I can also be considered to be self employed for NIC purposes only for the same role., and how to set this up.

I was hoping that others would have experience of this given that it is a legitimate way to make voluntary Class 2 NIC payments to gain a years SP contribution.  

I am going to also ask in school today to see if they can provide any guidance.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

HMRC might be a better starting point.

I suspect it's more a question of how do you go about paying rather than if you can pay.

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/national-insurance-manual/nim74100