Originally Posted by
robcuk
We’ve now left the U.K., and my wife contacted HMRC to find out how to pay her contributions from NL as she has 25 years of contributions in, and would like to draw her pension at retirement.
so HMRC explained that she can only make Class 2 contributions , but after 8 years of this she’ll be entitled to a full State Pension at 65. Great, rock on etc. She submitted all the paperwork, then after 7 months was told she had submitted the wrong paperwork, so we submitted everything again, this time just 6 months wait to get an invoice from HMRC for £156!!
Yes, apparently a full year of pension contributions is just £156.
This is simply crazy, they could charge 10x this and it would still be fair. No wonder the State Pension is kept so low.