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Paying into UK State Pension – Application Form (cf83) question

  • 20-02-2025 03:57PM
    #1
    Mr Creosote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭


    Hello,

    I want to avail of the current offer to pay voluntary national insurance contributions into UK state pension before 5th April to fill some gaps from previous years. I am also interested in paying contributions for ongoing periods.  So, for question 14 on the form I have selected the option: Paying for both ongoing periods and gaps for previous years.

    Just a question regarding filling out the application form – CF83. (Application to pay voluntary National Insurance contributions abroad).  On section 6 Question 32 of the form: Application to pay voluntary contributions. It gives several options:- 

    1. I wish to pay by Direct Debit or Six Monthly Direct Debit ( neither of these options will be open to me as they state it is not possible to pay by direct debit for gaps for previous tax years or for Class 3 contributions – some of my contributions will have to be at Class 3 rate.
    2. Annual Payment
    3. Payment via agent (whereby payment can be made through a UK bank account of family members or relatives etc in UK).

    On the NI38 guidance notes for this sections it states: 

    "Annual payment allows you to pay National Insurance contributions for a complete tax year, once a year in arrears, direct to HMRC. If you want to pay by annual payment, select this option on CF83 when you apply".

    Is the annual payment option the one to select for paying for previous periods and for future ongoing periods? Particularly for past gap years? If I wanted to pay a lump sum to cover some gaps?

    I have a number of relatives still living in UK so the pay by agent option may be open to me. Obviously, I would pay them back.

    I’m not clear on this. I called the UK Future Pensions centre, but they could not advise me on this question. They suggested I call HMRC (UK Revenue).

    Just wondering if anyone who may have made an application knows about this before I face a potential lengthy wait time to get through to HMRC. Any information / advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.



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  • #2
    K61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭K61


    You pay by bank transfer for previous periods and then I understand that at the end of the tax year you get a reminder to pay the most recent year again by bank transfer (if you chose to continue future voluntary contributions). The payment account detail and statement messages to use are available on the HMRC site.



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