uk national insurance voluntary contributions

[chang50]

Hi,I have been making voluntary class 3 national insurance contributions to boost my state pension.Payments for 3 tax years went through ok if a bit slowly.On March 22 2021 I made a payment for 2019-2020 via online banking in an identical manner to those earlier following the instructions on the gov.uk page for payments from abroad.I have my bank statement to prove this 'payment to hmrc nic receipts'.

As of today June 18 2021 my personal tax account is not showing this payment as received.I'm wondering if something has gone wrong...any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[partington]

You could try to phone them and ask.  It's probably OK, as there are now very  long delays in assigning  received payments to individual accounts. If you call them they will be able to tell you if the payment has been received and can assign it to your account immediately after you call.

 

I'm not overseas any more, but made a class 3 voluntary payment in the UK  on Jan 25th this year, and phoned them 5th March to check, as it had not shown up. They told me it had been received but was in the queue for being assigned, and that they would do it that day.

 

I appreciate it's expensive to call from abroad:  they play a  lot of prerecorded messages and I had about a 20 minute wait after that, but it may be worth it for your peace of mind.

 

The HMRC NI contributions help desk number I used in the UK was   03002003500, but I'm not sure if this works from abroad , so you may have to Google for  information about whether you need to contact a different department concerning overseas NI contributions.

[chang50]

11 hours ago, partington said:

You could try to phone them and ask.  It's probably OK, as there are now very  long delays in assigning  received payments to individual accounts. If you call them they will be able to tell you if the payment has been received and can assign it to your account immediately after you call.

 

I'm not overseas any more, but made a class 3 voluntary payment in the UK  on Jan 25th this year, and phoned them 5th March to check, as it had not shown up. They told me it had been received but was in the queue for being assigned, and that they would do it that day.

 

I appreciate it's expensive to call from abroad:  they play a  lot of prerecorded messages and I had about a 20 minute wait after that, but it may be worth it for your peace of mind.

 

The HMRC NI contributions help desk number I used in the UK was   03002003500, but I'm not sure if this works from abroad , so you may have to Google for  information about whether you need to contact a different department concerning overseas NI contributions.

Thanks I am writing to them first then I will have to phone them.