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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 3rd 2018, 11:16 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

:focus: :o
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 3rd 2018, 11:04 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

I'm talking specifically about prescription costs though. You're in work in your 50s and having to pay a mere £8.60 a time. If you need regular prescriptions you can buy a pre-payment certificate for...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 3rd 2018, 8:06 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Excellent, thanks for that. It gave me some search terms. It seems there's a big difference between the US and Canada. In media coverage, I mean.
Googling retiree health costs canada my first page...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 3rd 2018, 6:56 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

I can imagine it would be, if retirement specific. How about the general media though?

In my province the media has regular features on the usual concerns - hospital wait times; lack of doctors;...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 3rd 2018, 4:19 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

And even if you're lucky enough to keep it, it might not last long at the same level.

Makes you wonder why it's not talked about more doesn't it. :confused:
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 3rd 2018, 1:47 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Thanks.

It's a strange thing and rarely seems discussed "in public" as if it's too unseemly or something.

Up here I see occasional references to people not wanting to lose jobs because they...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Mar 3rd 2018, 12:56 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Genuine question.
Being in Canada I hear a lot about people with health benefits losing them when no longer employed and having great difficulty with prescription costs - because they're not...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 31st 2016, 7:25 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

And according to what's been confirmed in my application to pay, also if one is neither. :confused:
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 30th 2016, 1:40 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

It's the 'reciprocal' thing. Some years in one country may count for another and vice versa.

Take Canada as an example. One of Canada's Pensions - Old Age Security - has a residential qualifying...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 23rd 2016, 7:30 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

I don't believe it makes any difference which three just as it wouldn't if I'd gone traveling, back working a year and travelling etc

You'll know, of course, that there will be the added issue of...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 23rd 2016, 12:32 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

They are the amounts to pay for each year to count in order to increase my current 32 years to 35.
eg 2006-07 and 07-08 @£137.80, 2008-09 @ £140.45 or 2010-11 @ £137.80, 2011-12 @ £130 and 12-13 @...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 23rd 2016, 11:41 am
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Sorry, can't do that. My letter specifically says that a full year has to be paid for it to count.

I have been given a list of years I can pay for where the amounts vary between £137.80 and...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 23rd 2016, 1:48 am
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

So one would expect another 9 years were needed but you think it may be fewer.

At this stage they are none the wiser and needing 9 years would be the simple part.


In my case, I had my details...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Dec 21st 2016, 9:52 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Just double checking because on that page for me, the second bit makes no mention of years, just the £155 if I continue to contribute up to my date (2023).

I mention this as I have 32 years in so...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 28th 2016, 9:36 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

That's why I left it to them.

They are fully aware of my employed status in the UK (the DWP themselves, as it happens) right up to when I left the UK so definitely no s/e in the UK.

Looking at...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 27th 2016, 12:19 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

I am not nor ever have been registered as self employed. They say I am eligible for the lower rate.


I moved to Canada where I have been living on a combination of actuarially reduced UK Civil...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 26th 2016, 10:04 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

One costs more than the other but achieves the same result.

It's best to apply and see if you qualify for the lower rate unless it's really obvious you don't.

I've read nothing to suggest I'd...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 18th 2016, 10:22 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Not to dig up an old BE sore topic again, but however you look at it there is just no logical reason for RP recipients in Canada (and other countries) not to get the uprating while there are others...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 18th 2016, 4:48 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

It was the indexing bit I couldn't find. :thumbup:

So the bit about Brits in Canada not being uprated and Canadians in the UK not having theirs uprated, in mrken's post, isn't true.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 17th 2016, 10:56 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Thanks. I had a quick look for CPP rules but couldn't see anything quickly.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 15th 2016, 10:01 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

I believe it gets mentioned many a time when this discussion crops up that they do.
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Nov 14th 2016, 7:57 pm
Replies: 266
Views: 37,270
Posted By BristolUK

Re: Voluntary National Insurance contributions

Yes, it's not as if the £ would crash at the mere thought of going it alone or anything.
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