Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
thanks
yes 2017 says " we are looking into if you paid enough " i did, as i paid what they told me to at the end of the tax year, but i dont know if that year will change

i didnt know it was 35 years, I always presumed i wouldnt get to pension age, so it never really worried me, when i got to a age where you start to think about it ( think it was my 40th ), i looked into a private pension and the amount per month it would cost was stupidly high ( i would prefer to spend it on holidays and take my chance with the poor state pension )




thanks

a few missing years when i started work, i spent a few months in Ibiza one year and of course that year is missing, the only recent year is 2017, which i know i paid as i pay it as my tax return, yes from memory its class 4 NIC's
If you worked in an EU country and have pay slips to prove it, you may be able to claim that year through HMRC. Depends on how many months you worked in Ibiza and whether you returned to UK and worked/paid NI contributions for the rest of that year. For a fiver (or so) a week extra, Index Linked, for the rest of your pensionable life it may be worth persuing with HMRC. My sister worked in Spain for a year in the 70s and she managed to get that year credited to her pension.