Can I contribute NI in this tax year?

Brie

Hey there

I was optimistically hoping that when I checked my pension forecast today that my NI for 22/23 would have been logged.  Alas and alack, it is not!!!  Any idea when this might happen.

I'm also a bit concerned as no one has been able to tell me definitively if I would have made enough NI contribution in 22/23 and now I've notice there's this on their website:

You have:

• 32 years of full contributions
• 1 year to contribute before 5 April 2023
• 6 years when you did not contribute enough

Now I can't do anything about the 6 years (prior to 1995) but I was looking to contribute for 22/23 if necessary.  But is this message saying I would have had to make a contribution before yesterday?  Or just that it was for that tax year?  

The difference could be about £3 payout per week and I doubt it would cost much for me to get that assuming that I just need to top up what NI I did pay last year.  I'm looking to start collecting my SP late in 2023 so want to make sure I've got it all organised.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

Brie said:

Hey there

I was optimistically hoping that when I checked my pension forecast today that my NI for 22/23 would have been logged.  Alas and alack, it is not!!!  Any idea when this might happen.

I'm also a bit concerned as no one has been able to tell me definitively if I would have made enough NI contribution in 22/23 and now I've notice there's this on their website:

You have:

• 32 years of full contributions
• 1 year to contribute before 5 April 2023
• 6 years when you did not contribute enough

Now I can't do anything about the 6 years (prior to 1995) but I was looking to contribute for 22/23 if necessary.  But is this message saying I would have had to make a contribution before yesterday?  Or just that it was for that tax year?  

The difference could be about £3 payout per week and I doubt it would cost much for me to get that assuming that I just need to top up what NI I did pay last year.  I'm looking to start collecting my SP late in 2023 so want to make sure I've got it all organised.

Do you mean from work you've done?

Employers have until 20 April to tell HMRC about earnings for 2022:23 so cannot see NI records being updated before May at the earliest.

As far as NI from working is concerned anyway.

Brie

@Dazed_and_C0nfused
Thanks - that makes sense that employers need time to do their thing.  I guess it makes no difference that all of the work I did was at least 6 months back as I suspect it would just confuse things to try and do bits and pieces as the info is received.  

molerat

Without a full record running to end of year there is a fair chance the NI record will not be updated until they do the update around October.