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Well done @DannyBoyD - great work that has certainly benefited many. Hopefully some people will be able to follow up on your charitable donation suggestion.

Key Post - UK State Pension - Make voluntary contributions to qualify for UK pension on top of Irish pension

Ok quick update for me. Paid amount via revolut on 14th March 2025 and rang hmrc today. 50 min wait (I downloaded viber app and they have free call trial period) and got through to super helpful person. Anyway I'm all sorted and he confirmed payment received and that they would allocate it and...
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DannyBoyD said:
Absolutely no obligation to do so, but if anyone would like to pay it forward, you might like to consider a donation to the Samaritans, in memory of my mother. Thank you.
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Oh that’s true, it was me and hubby, a colleague, my sister and a few other friends. Then sister told a few friends, they all worked together in London at the same time, (nurses) about 25 from her training year. Plus 2 cousins I met at a family funeral recently that I hadn’t seen in years. One of them was busy texting her mates when I told her.

One of them cut it very fine and still isn’t certain her form arrived in time, but she was one of the first I told so she had 2 years to do it.
 
Dr Strangelove said:
I’ve managed to convince the following to send off CF83:
-2 neighbours
-3 first cousins
-2 colleagues
-2 friends
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Wow thats superb work. I managed to get 1 cousin
1 friend
1 work colleague

Like you sent it to others but no bite from them.

@DannyBoyD thanks again and hopefully others had made a donation to charity as he truly has been a legend. Great work by all the askaboutmoney community who chipped in with info/dates etc.
 
I just counted up and 9 people in total that I know (neighbour, friends, work colleague, choir buddy) have applied that would never have done so thanks to my sending them on the links to @DannyBoyD thread on this website. You have helped many thousands of people with your excellent advice. Thanks again and enjoy the break from it all.
 
I wasn’t over there long enough to benefit from it myself. I did mention it to a cousin of mine who was over there at the same time, around 35 years ago. The response was…”yerra; I left a bit of a tax bill behind me when I came back home, so I decided it’d be best to leave it well alone”. :)

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Yes, totally agree many thanks @DannyBoyD.

Still think the whole thing is a bit mad. My brother who lived and worked in NI for the last 20 years is not impressed at all and I can't imagine he is alone as a disgruntled UK tax payer (I know I would be if the shoe was on the other foot)
 
I agree redchariot. Although it hasn’t been much in the papers over there. One of my UK friends knew all about it as he works in unravelling of the missselling of pensions area. My other Uk friends thought it was a great deal and were amused by the idea of a chunk of a forum dedicated to it. Mind you they are all close to retirement age and have been adding up all their bits and entitlements and one mentioned a small Swiss pension he was going to get so it wasn’t such a big deal. They were surprised that the gate was a closing as a couple of them had already bought missing years when they were abroad.
 
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