Employment And Benefits Support
You can solely claim a UK state pension in case you have paid or been credited with UK National Insurance contributions – these are the UK’s social security contributions. If you might be eligible for the UK state pension, you cannot normally get it till you reach state pension age. If you've less than 10 years’ UK NIC, you might be able to use your overseas social safety contributions to make up the 10 qualifying years needed to get any new state pension. This is most probably in case you have lived or worked within the European Economic Area , Switzerland or certain countries that have a social safety settlement with the UK. Like the UK state pension, it might be potential on your earlier intervals of insurance, work or residence in other countries to be taken into account when you declare different UK state advantages. If you proceed to have a paper census questionnaire, fill it in as quickly as you'll be able to and return it to FREEPOST, Census 2021. Note that you do no