State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions

(asked on 13th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of reforming the qualification criteria for the State Pension to include part year National Insurance contributions.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 18th May 2021

There are no plans to change the National Insurance qualifying year definitions for State Pension purposes.

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