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National Insurance Class 2 payment period
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 5:37 am
by Neil
Not a biggie as I’m not worried about the money, but I have 34 years of full contributions (working in the UK then Class 2 in Japan) and 3 years when I didn’t contribute enough. My forecast says to get the full pension I need to pay another 3 years. I thought the full period was now 35 years. Does anyone have any idea why mine is 37 years?
Re: National Insurance Class 2 payment period
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 12:35 am
by Sybil
The retirement age is going to be changed from 65 to 67 (depending when you retire) hence two more years I believe.
Re: National Insurance Class 2 payment period
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 5:03 am
by Neil
That shouldn't affect the fact that 35 is the number of years required contributions.
Re: National Insurance Class 2 payment period
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 8:13 am
by RetireJapan
Probably worth asking them. You can call them cheaply using Skype (but might get the runaround like I do, which takes a bit longer).
Re: National Insurance Class 2 payment period
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 1:04 pm
by Cheeseman
The average time for the friendly Geordies in the pension office in the UK to answer is more than 20 minutes.
I have had the phone on speaker for 33 minutes on one occasion.
Re: National Insurance Class 2 payment period
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:12 am
by Sybil
The four times I called them, I never waited more than five minutes.
Re: National Insurance Class 2 payment period
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:22 am
by RetireJapan
The last time I called, I had to call eleven times to get the correct number to deal with my case
Re: National Insurance Class 2 payment period
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:24 am
by goodandbadjapan
RetireJapan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:22 am
The last time I called, I had to call eleven times to get the correct number to deal with my case
I was much the same and often got passed back to the same number I had called earlier and who had passed me on somewhere else.