Wife retired but still working NI question

andygb

My wife reached retirement age on 28th April this year, but she is still working for a company. She is not self employed. Next week she should receive her first full state pension payment. Yesterday, she recieved her May payment from her company, which was £200 less than last month. I looked at her payslip and they have deducted £109 for NI which I believe to be wrong, as she shouldn't be paying NI anymore. Her HR person said that she would have to contact HMRC, so I said, it is her payroll department which should be dealing with this.

Any advice would be appreciated.

molerat

https://www.gov.uk/tax-national-insurance-after-state-pension-age/stopping-paying-national-insurance

Yes, it is the employer who should be correcting it.

1) Inform employer she is past state pension age

2) Ask employer to correct their submission and refund overpaid NI

but she can reclaim direct from HMRC if the employer won't play ball

https://www.gov.uk/claim-national-insurance-refund

Dazed_and_C0nfused

andygb said:

My wife reached retirement age on 28th April this year, but she is still working for a company. She is not self employed. Next week she should receive her first full state pension payment. Yesterday, she recieved her May payment from her company, which was £200 less than last month. I looked at her payslip and they have deducted £109 for NI which I believe to be wrong, as she shouldn't be paying NI anymore. Her HR person said that she would have to contact HMRC, so I said, it is her payroll department which should be dealing with this.

Any advice would be appreciated.

She could point them to this guidance.  Making sure she has complied with her aspect of it.

https://www.gov.uk/employee-reaches-state-pension-age

andygb

Thanks for your responses, I needed a bit of confirmation, because it is a long time since I last did payroll.