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National Insurance contributions you can choose to pay when you have a gap in your National Insurance record.

• Overview

  If you do not pay National Insurance you may have gaps in your National…

• Check which National Insurance contributions you can pay

  Find out if you can pay voluntary National Insurance contributions based…

• Rates

  The rates for the 2024 to 2025 tax year are: £3.45 a week for Class 2…

• How and when to pay

  If you live in the UK, find out how to: pay Class 2 voluntary…

• Updated: 7 February 2023

Information for current and future grant applicants about how the UK Space Agency runs funding calls

• Updated: 12 March 2025

Find out what certain terms mean that are connected to employee travel.

• Updated: 24 June 2024

Use our online service to apply to pay voluntary National Insurance contributions for periods abroad.

• Updated: 12 February 2025

This note sets out the final position, and methodology, that has been used to determine allocations of the National Insurance Contributions grant for CAs and CCAs.

• Updated: 11 March 2025

• Updated: 17 July 2023

Work out how much annual allowance you get for your pension savings for 2016 to 2017 and each later tax year.

• Updated: 16 July 2024

How to pay your voluntary Class 3 National Insurance contributions - online, Direct Debit, bank transfer, cheque.

Tax you pay and tax relief you get on contributions to your private pension - annual allowance, lifetime allowance, apply for individual protection