Can both the DWP and HMRC award NI Credits?

singhini

Ive just checked my NI record on my government gateway and its showing i have a full year towards my state pension but its only showing 41 weeks of NI credits. (i was expecting it to show 52 weeks).

The reason i was expecting it to show 52 weeks of credits is because i was both unemployed and then later working in that tax year.

i was initially signing-on and that explains the 41 weeks from the job centre but for the remaining 11 weeks i was in part-time employment working (i was earning above the LEL but below the PT) and so would have been credited with NI contributions without actually paying them. So why don't those 11 weeks also show on my record?

i'm assuming its because the Government Gateway is a DWP platform and so only shows their 41 weeks. While the other 11 weeks must have been credits from HMRC (as i was working) but since the Government Gateway is not a HMRC platform it doesn't show.

Q1 = Am i right to assume both DWP and HMRC are able to award NI Credits?

Q2 = Have i assumed correctly with regards to the 41 weeks showing and the 11 weeks not showing in my assumption above? 

Any help in explaining why my record looks the way it does would be much appreciated.

huckster

1) yes
2) I thought that credits from DWP are never that up to date.  Also someone recently commented that most employers collect NI from employees and only pay this to HMRC once every 3 months. So it might be your employers have not yet paid HMRC the money for the credits to be registered.