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Deadline to top up national insurance extended

In our previous blog Check your national insurance record before 5 April 2023 we urged you to check your NI record to identify any shortfalls in your NI history and make any voluntary national insurance (NI) contributions going back to April 2006.  The government has now announced that you will have until 31 July 2023 to…

Check your national insurance record before 5 April 2023

If you are planning to claim the UK state pension, we urge you to check your national insurance (NI) record before 5 April 2023.  Currently, voluntary contributions can be made to plug gaps back to April 2006, but this will be curtailed from April 2023. If you are employed or self employed, National insurance contributions…

2022/23 National Insurance Bands

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Unless the Chancellor makes an announcement to the contrary on 23 March, which is very unlikely, the rates of National Insurance Contributions for workers and employers increase by 1.25% from 6 April 2022. This is to provide extra funding for health and social care and will become a separate Levy from 2023/24. The starting thresholds…