Question follow-through · 50671
State Retirement Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to allow people to (a) pay additional Class 3A voluntary National Insurance contributions to increase State Pension entitlement beyond the last six years of working lives and (b) make ba
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department plans to allow people to (a) pay additional Class 3A voluntary National Insurance contributions to increase State Pension entitlement beyond the last six years of working lives and (b) make ba
21 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
The rules for Class 3 voluntary National Insurance Contributions allow individuals to fill gaps in their National Insurance record for the past 6 tax years. There are no plans to change these rules.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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