Have you topped up a UK pension to cover gaps?

[Brissy1]

Things are looking promising, mrsB received a text (after waiting 8 months) requesting she call uk. Phoned tonight and he confirmed a few details and advised that she has 5 years, is eligible for catch-up, and to complete CF83 form importantly to note on it that she had registered interest prior to deadline.
Don't know how 5 years was recorded, only worked for about 3 years in the 1980s.
After leaving UK she worked for some years before marrying a wonderful man so stopped working, so...

I gather that catch-up rates are class 2 for years when working, then class 3? And one can't catch-up all the years since leaving UK?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Things are looking promising, mrsB received a text (after waiting 8 months) requesting she call uk. Phoned tonight and he confirmed a few details and advised that she has 5 years, is eligible for catch-up, and to complete CF83 form importantly to note on it that she had registered interest prior to deadline.
Don't know how 5 years was recorded, only worked for about 3 years in the 1980s.
After leaving UK she worked for some years before marrying a wonderful man so stopped working, so...

I gather that catch-up rates are class 2 for years when working, then class 3? And one can't catch-up all the years since leaving UK?

You can catch up all the years since leaving the UK. Correct… class 2 while working and 3 when not.

They seem to count part years… which is likely how they got to 5 when you’d really been there 3. Mine was likewise 2 years higher than I had originally calculated.