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Holy shit... I didn't even know this was a thing and the govt (tory scum) covered it up, still won't say what the problem is, how many are affected... there's people who are missing a couple of years.
Turns out... I'm missing 8yrs myself.
From 2010 to 2017, I'd given up work to help care for my late father.
I was on benefits during that time partly as a carer and partly due to my own health issues.
For that entire time... I've been entitled to a weekly credit towards my national insurance contributions that you pay to be entitled to your state pension when you retire.
I was prompted to look into my NI record after I was told about a deadline this April for topping up any shortfalls from the years 2006-2016 in your record.
Up to 2009, I have all full years aside from 90-91 and 93-94 when I was still starting out in life and looking for a career that interested me. Not really an issue as more than 30yrs. It's 2yrs out of the approx 35yrs required. Not a problem when you have a working life of around 50yrs.
But I wanted to retire early, I don't want to work until I'm 67... and because of this, I'd have too.
So now I need to get working and investigating how I can get this record corrected.
That missing 8yrs, is enough to get me over the finish line so that I could retire in my 50's, some 10yrs early.
#DWP
#Pensions
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#NationalInsuranceCredits
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