Until 5 April 2010, to protect the National Insurance(NI) records of students who stayed in full time education for tax years commencing on or after 6 April 1975, regulation 4 (of the Social Security Regulations 1975) allowed a customer to be credited with Class 3 NICs, which count for State Pension purposes.
These starting credits (Juvenile credits) could be awarded for the full three tax years containing their 16th, 17th and 18th birthdays, whether or not the young person was in full time education, and were automatically recorded on the National Insurance and PAYE Service(NPS) account.
This will then be reflected through your Personal Tax Account when you view your NI record. However, the conditions for these credits are that you must have been resident in UK at the time the credits are awarded and registered for a UK NI account.
If you come from abroad and your Date of Entry into the UK scheme falls after these years, there will be a Flag set on the system to allow the “discounting” of these credits and have them removed.
The Personal Tax Account view of your NI record may still reflect these credits until they have actually been removed.
The address to write to for specific confirmation is:
Individual Caseworker, PT Operations North East England. BX9 1AN