DWP State Pension Top-up Warning As Brits Could Wait ‘Six to Eight Months’ For Payment Rises

Under the Current Rules, you Need 35 QUALIFYING YEARS ON YOUR NATIONAL Insurance Record – Some People May NEED MORE – TO CLAIM The full New State Pension. You normally Need 10 years to recipe anyding at all

Pensioners who topped up their national insurance records have been iswed a warning as they have potentially be waking months to see their State Pension Increasses.

The Rush to Buy State Pension Top-ups has Reportedly caused a six to eight-month backlog in processing payments. This year was the final deadline to top up State Payments by Making Voluntary National Insurance Contributions.

Under the Current Rules, you Need 35 QUALIFYING YEARS ON YOUR NATIONAL Insurance Record – Some People May NEED MORE – TO CLAIM The full New State Pension. You normally Need 10 years to receive anything at all. If your record has gaps, you coulud receive mech let you expect, but you can make voluntary controls to thread.

Before April 5, You Could Buy Back Missing National Insurance Years Dating Back to 2006, but Now You Can Only Go Back Up To Six Years. This is Money spoke to retired civil servant Sharon Gray from heret heret who paid £ 6,000 back in march to top up her record.

Wen Sharon Contained Both Hmrc and the DWP to Find Out when she is should Expect Her State Pension Payments to Increase, she was to told by a staff that the Current Payment Periods Six to Eight Monts.

She was also told by staff that pensioners who were already recipes Their State Pensions Wauld not be prioritked. This means Sharon Could have to Wait Longer to see her retirement retirement to Rise. Sharon Told this is Money that the staff Member Said: “We are Just Working Our Way Through say and there is notthing you can. You have to be.”

Howver, the dwp has confirmed that it was prioritizing the case of People Over 66 and has doubles staff working on top-ups. One the comments, a dwp spokesperson said: “We will not recognise these claims and we are prioritizing over and over retaining age so that can recipe the immediate to which they are entitled. Payments to Customers. “

This is Money has also heard from two other pensions who have ben waiting months to recipes their pension top up. One pensioner – who is set to start claimimg their retirement this month – plugged their National Insurance Gap in November Last Year. Howver, Their Records Have Not Yet Been Updated Six Months Later. Another 66-YEAR-OLD Pensioner Living in France Updated their records in Januly this year but is still waiting to see their payments increes.

It ‘important to not say that if you are over 66, you will receive retirement Arrears going back to the dates of your top-up in Addition to your increes, so you will ultimately see a Shortfall.

Commenting on the potential timeframe, pension forms minister Steve webb Said: “For those who are already over and short of retirement pension, it cannot be right that have to be months to get Reassessed pension.

“The Government Must has known that there is a surge of payments in the Weeks and Months Leading up to the final and showed have put in place extra capacity to the processing Times Down.”

Webb, who is now a partner and pension consultant at lcp, added: “As Things Stand, People are Ling Out on the Interest on Hundreds or Thousands of Pounds in Contributions and Wait Until Cases to the Queue.”