UK state pension

thanks everyone for help! I made the first payment :)

If you paid the contributions up to 2025, then the issue of which years your payment gets allocated to does not arise. I don't see the purpose of calling.

Looks like you can also top up your state pension here too as long as it's less than 5 years since your last PRSI contribution. Cost appears to be €500 / €650 depending on your circumstances, so somewhere between the NI Class 2&3 rates.

Presumably 5 years

So if I’m using my UK years for the UK pension, I can’t use them again for the Irish pension?

It is a pity you cannot pay back more than 5 years.

How much are voluntary contributions in ireland?

People need to be aware of the different pension schemes, what may apply to one may not apply to the TCA which will apply in full from 2035

So there are some criteria, the first being you need 520 contributions which you clearly have. Then you need to apply within 60 months (5 years) after the end of the contribution year during which you last paid compulsory insurance.

So I take it, you can claim back as far as five years. You would have had to not be working for a certain period over the last five years in order to start paying voluntary contributions.

Form what you have said it seems you are working and for the past 5 years?

You might have been able to pay for the years in Asia, but you would have had to pay back then.

If you think you don't qualify for the voluntary contributions I would definitely check the following.

Have you checked mywelfare.ie for the digital print out of all your prsi contributions.

Could it be possible you are missing contributions. Think back and make sure they are all correct.

Could you have some credited contributions that you are forgetting, maybe you got a social welfare payment for a time between jobs.

Also check the home makers scheme aswell for time away from work looking after children.

Ireland has Bilateral social security agreements with Japan and South Korea did you work in either of those countries.

Don't me asking but did you have to ring them for the confirmation or did they inform you, and secondly have they been allocated to your selected years?

And finally what number did you use if you rang them?

i made the contriutions for class 2 on my record. Its showing as "Self-employment: 52 weeks" i am an employee in ireland. wonder if this is a mistake or how uk records class 2. maybe it makes no difference.