paulry

About half way down the page on this link is the telephone number to request your pension statement. Once you have that, the pension statement will provide the number you need to call to apply to make voluntary contributions. They will then send a form for you to fill in or you can get it from the link stated on the pension statement where you pretty much provide direct debit details for automatically making six monthly payments from here onwards. A couple a weeks later you'll get a letter stating that it's been accepted and a statement for how much it'll cost should you want to top up the missing years since you moved to Australia. I think you arrived here in late 2010 (about the same time as me) and my top up amount for those missing years until now is 730 pounds. Worth paying, imo.