Re: UK Pension & Voluntary Payments Questions
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:35 am
Merry Xmas to me. I checked on the uk gov page today and the record has been corrected. Hurrah!beanhead wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 1:57 pm
As I wrote in this thread, when I back paid my voluntary contributions, I added up the amounts in the 'offer' they made and paid in full. Despite this, one year was listed as 'Not complete' or 'not full' on the gateway site.
I wrote to them to ask them to fix this, but no response.
Today, I called HMRC. (got through almost straight away).
The lady checked and agreed with me that my calculations and payments were correct, but that someone had 'messed up' the allocation. She could not fix it, since I am a Rest Of World person, which requires a special caseworker. She would pass it on to the correct department and it would be fixed, I was assured.
I now have 20 years paid in full. 17 more years to go to reach full contributions of 35 years
(I read the post where banders explained why this is calculated like this...I will just have to trust HMRC on that one, I think.)
I pay once a year through my NatWest account. Let's hope that stays open.