Question follow-through · 13869

State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to support people with insufficient national insurance (a) contributions and (b) credits to qualify for the new State Pension.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 12 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 14 Nov 2024
Answer: 19 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she has taken to support people with insufficient national insurance (a) contributions and (b) credits to qualify for the new State Pension.
14 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
To qualify for any payments of the new State Pension, people usually need at least 10 qualifying years of National Insurance contributions or National Insurance credits when they reach State Pension age. The contributions could be as a result of employmen...

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