National Insurance Record Gap Confusion
Posted: November 13th, 2021, 7:33 pm
Hi,
My head is spinning as I wanted to see how my State Pension forecast is doing and found that finally my NI record has been updated for 6 April 2020 to 5 April 2021 and it says "Year Not Full" and that I have "National Insurance credits: 33 weeks".
(1)I received JSA from 6th April 2020 to 30.4/2020, then had exhausted my 6 months entitlement but continued signing on without JSA and
(2) submitted a claim for Class 1 NI until I signed off on 1st of June 2021 (subsequent tax year) as I had decided to focus on my caring responsibilities and retire from work.
(3) I received Carers Allowance from 30th Nov 2021 which should entitle me to Class 1 NI.
I have evidence of 1 and 2 but cannot find any letters relating to 2 (although I can find emails showing that I had applied and asking to be signed off when my intentions changed and confirming that this would be done by my then case worker).
My rough week counts are (1) 3 weeks, (2) rest of FY so should have done it, (3) 17 weeks.
My guess is that 52-(17+3)=32 weeks so 1 and 3 are probably missing from their calculations but this would require them to have stopped 2 when my CA started not when I signed off so it would be weird for this to be the issue. How do I find out where the gap is and therefore go about fixing it?
Ultimately I can get NI for child benefit transferred from my working wife to close the gap but I shouldn't need to do this but there will be no loss to her if I do.
Thanks,
AWOL
My head is spinning as I wanted to see how my State Pension forecast is doing and found that finally my NI record has been updated for 6 April 2020 to 5 April 2021 and it says "Year Not Full" and that I have "National Insurance credits: 33 weeks".
(1)I received JSA from 6th April 2020 to 30.4/2020, then had exhausted my 6 months entitlement but continued signing on without JSA and
(2) submitted a claim for Class 1 NI until I signed off on 1st of June 2021 (subsequent tax year) as I had decided to focus on my caring responsibilities and retire from work.
(3) I received Carers Allowance from 30th Nov 2021 which should entitle me to Class 1 NI.
I have evidence of 1 and 2 but cannot find any letters relating to 2 (although I can find emails showing that I had applied and asking to be signed off when my intentions changed and confirming that this would be done by my then case worker).
My rough week counts are (1) 3 weeks, (2) rest of FY so should have done it, (3) 17 weeks.
My guess is that 52-(17+3)=32 weeks so 1 and 3 are probably missing from their calculations but this would require them to have stopped 2 when my CA started not when I signed off so it would be weird for this to be the issue. How do I find out where the gap is and therefore go about fixing it?
Ultimately I can get NI for child benefit transferred from my working wife to close the gap but I shouldn't need to do this but there will be no loss to her if I do.
Thanks,
AWOL