UK state pension

I completed the form via the HMRC portal this morning - it took a little time and thankfully I had all my dates and details in various places. When I went it to check how long it would take to expect to hear a response (via the link below) it said July 2025! I'm hoping the fact that I submitted before the April 2025 deadline will mean I'm still eligible - I saved a screen print of my submission date to be on the safe side.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-when-you-can-expect-a-reply-from-hmrc

I recieved my letter this week with a rejection . I had 2 full years and then returned to Ireland . I checked mygovid and it seems correct . Its there any recourse here, is it worth sending on my payments record from Ireland or can I add the uk contributions to my Irish contributions ?

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My wife got the same letter back in March. So we sent the Irish contributions to them. Only took a few minutes to print them out from my welfare.ie

No harm in sending them what they ask for.

We haven't heard back from them yet, so can't tell you if she got approved or what the outcome was.

You can add UK years to your Irish contributions anyway. When you apply for the Irish pension in years to come, you say you worked in the UK. They will request the information from the UK pension authority.

I had that about 2 months ago. Did it again online and got a letter the other day.

Did you get the go ahead to pay contributions?

Yip. I have 8 years paid.

Now I've to work out how to do the payments.

I'd be nervous of a change in policy. Who knows what a change in Government could bring.

Yeah that's true aswell. If I didn't have another 27 years to pay until I retire, I would be more cautious.

When making payments - Does anyone know how are they applied to the shortfall years?

I have one year that only needs a payment of £3.15, several years that need a payment around £165 and then a few years that need a payment of £824.20.

Obviously I'd like to pay the cheap years and leave out the 5 years that cost a lot more but not sure if that's possible?

My years in the UK were right at the start of my career so I can leave some years out and still get to 35 years without a problem.

Yeah, you can do that. You topup any years that are within scope. What I did was after sorting out how much I needed to pay was phone HMRC and tell they what years I was paying. Now no idea yet if they did this but I was told they put a note on my account for the amount I was paying and for which years I was paying for.

Same as last time I checked (paid 17th April) - no change

I paid in late February or early march and saw no change yet. Paid 2006 to 2010 .

I got a letter, it was just for paying this years NI but after already paying for the full NI pension I ignored it.

Did that letter have this year included on it? I had a letter back in March about class 2 and the back dated years. But I also received another letter in May for 2023/2024. Don't forget tax year in UK is April. So last year only finished 6th of April 2024

Got a letter stating I qualify for class 2 contributions for some past years. However I need to pay class 3 for others even though I was employed in Ireland during these years.

My screw up is that I didn't include these employments when I did the online application. I only entered my current employment details. Haste makes waste !

So I rang them and I can redo the application (CF83) or send a letter.

Not sure which is the safer option. The first option goes through the whole application process again, and maybe to the end of the queue, but it's online and immediately submitted, the second option updates my current application, but goes through the post.

Hmmm

Think I'll go through the second option as I don't want to start the whole class designation decision again.