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Shortfall in NI contributions.
Amancalledhorse
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Hi, first ever post on MSE.
My wife has not enough NI contributions due to living abroad for some years and later in life being unemployed but not signing on.
If only we had realised it was required for NI credits! She has been retired now for 5 years.
Anyway, we thought she could buy class 3 contributions but looking at gov.uk, it seems that woman born up to October 52 and after April 53 are OK to apply.
What about the 6 months between those 2 dates? My wife was born March 53 which seems to rule her out.
Is that correct and if so does anyone know why?
Thanks in advance.
My wife has not enough NI contributions due to living abroad for some years and later in life being unemployed but not signing on.
If only we had realised it was required for NI credits! She has been retired now for 5 years.
Anyway, we thought she could buy class 3 contributions but looking at gov.uk, it seems that woman born up to October 52 and after April 53 are OK to apply.
What about the 6 months between those 2 dates? My wife was born March 53 which seems to rule her out.
Is that correct and if so does anyone know why?
Thanks in advance.
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Not sure how that glitch comes about but it is of no matter now because with a March 53 birth she reached SPA in March 2016 under the old rules so only had 6 years from then to fill gaps which timed out in March 2022. It is also one of those weird timing things where no woman reached SPA between 7 Mar and 5 July 2016.
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