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

Yup same here - still says in progress, they received cheque in March this year, only 2023/24 marked as paid. Just have to trust the process!!
 
If things change and we can't get both pensions, can we transfer all our years to Ireland? Just thinking if but some miracle I could retire early, for the next 15 years I could actually work up 30 years of Irish contributions (through Irish work and UK voluntary contributions)
Obviously best case is nothing changes and I hope up end up with full UK pension and about 80% Irish.
 
My status now says 'COMPLETED' but I haven't received any letters or correspondence as of yet. When I go to check my National Insurance Records, I now see the following for the years in which I've moved from UK to Ireland in late 2020:

2023 to 2024 - Your record for this year is not available yet

2022 to 2023 - Year is not full
Pay a voluntary contribution of £824.20 by 5 April 2029.This shortfall may increase after 5 April 2025.

2021 to 2022 - Year is not full
Pay a voluntary contribution of £800.80 by 5 April 2028.This shortfall may increase after 5 April 2025.

2020 to 2021 - Full year
You have contributions from Paid employment.

It is saying I have 2 payable gaps for 2021 to 2022 and 2022 to 2023, with an option to 'Check if you can pay for gaps online' which I haven't clicked as of yet.
 

I just got this letter in the post today. Does this sound right, and is it the same kind of letter that everyone else is getting?

 
DannyBoyD said:
Why do you think its wrong?
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Just found it a bit confusing, the figures in the letter are much cheaper than the figures quoted online when I check online. For example, online it says I would need to pay £824.20 to cover the gap in 2022-23, yet the letter says it would only cost £163.80. Is the quote in the letter for Class 2, whilst the online quote is more likely to be Class 3?
 
It is class 2 on letter. Online is always set to class 3 even if they approve class 2.
 
Thanks for confirming that @partnership that clears things up. I'm disappointed that they revoked my original request to pay via direct debit.



Did this happen to anyone else? I am now forced to make an annual payment instead, or if I want to change it back to direct debit I would have to submit another CF83 and go back over this entire process again from scratch. Even if I did submit another CF83, the exact same issue would happen again as it would take more than 6 months to sort out again.
 
As I understand it you can only pay by direct debit if you're UK based, or your current account is. Not sure if it's one or both.
 
DannyBoyD said:
Its been said repeatedly, you can't do DD from Irish bank a/c.
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I understood that, which is why I provided my UK bank account details on my original form. I still have my UK current account, and I also have a Wise account with a UK IBAN.
 
PoundMan said:
I understood that, which is why I provided my UK bank account details on my original form. I still have my UK current account, and I also have a Wise account with a UK IBAN.
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I had the same issue. Got accepted a year or so ago having submitted my original form. When I asked about DD from my UK account they said no bother just send in another form with only the DD bit filled in (didn't want to fill in DD on the original form if it was going to be class 3!) so I did so. Earlier this year they got in touch by letter to say I never provided my details around employment etc - they had put up the second dummy form (used for DD only) and so the system said class 3 again.

Had a whole load of hassle but got back to class 2 and was told I'd need to again submit a DD form for yearly payments - I just said I'd make a manual payment and it would mean having to ring them every year to check the class 2 payment for the tax year I'm paying.
 
I'd be interested to get some feedback on the following cases (1): You are aged 60 and are 'living and working abroad' and thus qualify for Class 2 NIC. One morning (still aged 60) you decide that you want to retire early. You are now in the category of 'living abroad but not working'. Do you now qualify for Class 3 NIC or can you still make Class 2 voluntary NIC? At what point do you contact HMRC? (2) Same initial situation but this time you lose your job in Ireland and you are now on social welfare and eventually 'signing on'. Are you still eligible to pay Class 2 NICs or do you move to Class 3?
 
Has anyone tried paying via Revolut? I cannot get any bank to issue a sterling cheque/draft. I also don’t have have a bank account (and no, my name is not Bertie), which complicates matters
 
Is the annual payment done from your Irish bank account directly to HMRC? Or do you first have to send it to your UK bank account? Bit frustrating as I had originally been hoping to automate this process, similar to my UK student loan repayments which I pay through FlyWire.
 
I have Sterling so hasn't been an issue for me, i.e. I will continue to use Sterling from my UK account.
 
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