A loved ones national insurance contributions

mmmbop10

I'm not sure how correct this is but I was chatting to a taxi driver and he informed me his wife had passed away and he was able to claim back her National Insurance Contributions that she had paid when living and he received his first payment in a lump sum
He said he had been advised by emailing this site.

Cant find any information about this.

Id have thought that when living and paying National Insurance Contributions if you died your widow wouldn't be able to make a claim back on the money you had paid.
But he was adamant

p00hsticks

Sorry, I don't believe that's true.
Depending on her circumstances her estate may have been due an income tax refund for the year she died, but not NI. 
Other possibilities are a death in service benefit, or part of any pension she had built up. 

zagfles

He probably got bereavement allowance, it's not a refund of NI but does depend on having an NI record.

See Bereavement Support Payment explained | Age UK

Marcon

mmmbop10 said:

I'm not sure how correct this is but I was chatting to a taxi driver and he informed me his wife had passed away and he was able to claim back her National Insurance Contributions that she had paid when living and he received his first payment in a lump sum
He said he had been advised by emailing this site.

Cant find any information about this.

Id have thought that when living and paying National Insurance Contributions if you died your widow wouldn't be able to make a claim back on the money you had paid.
But he was adamant

Taxi drivers usually are!! He was also wrong.

mmmbop10

Yea thanks for the reply's.
When he told me, I thought this doesn't sound right.
Then claimed he contacted Martin Lewis website and they rang him to say its true.
I was already smelling you know what.
Quick google search confirmed what I thought but thought id double check on here.

Life lesson never listen to taxi drivers in Cleethorpes lol
Thanks

Pollycat

mmmbop10 said:

Life lesson never listen to taxi drivers in Cleethorpes lol
Thanks

Fixed that for you. 

Marcon

mmmbop10 said:

Yea thanks for the reply's.
When he told me, I thought this doesn't sound right.
Then claimed he contacted Martin Lewis website and they rang him to say its true.

Yes....of course they've got time to do that...