Catching up on your state pension
The deadline to backfill your pre-2016/17 state pension contributions is nearing. When the new state pension was introduced in April 2016, the government offered a temporary opportunity for some of those who did not have a full record of national insurance contributions (NICs) record to make up for their shortfall, even if they had already reached State pension age. It has always been possible to ‘backfill’ NICs for the six immediately previous tax years, but the government’s