Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Currently paying class 2 national insurance to build up a uk state pension. I'm not sure what is going to happen when class 2 is abolished. Anyone with any further information in the coming months/years please feel free to share! Hopefully we will have another option other than paying class 3!
See here to start http://www.ukbudget.com/2016-measure...ributions.aspx |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Originally Posted by jb82
(Post 11897552)
Currently paying class 2 national insurance to build up a uk state pension. I'm not sure what is going to happen when class 2 is abolished. Anyone with any further information in the coming months/years please feel free to share! Hopefully we will have another option other than paying class 3!
See here to start Budget 2016 | Deloitte UK | Abolition of Class 2 National Insurance Contributions |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Google found me this, which is what I think I've heard previously here. Overseas individuals working abroad would need to pay Class 3 instead.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consul...-self-employed Group 2: Those who are not self-employed in the UK but can pay Class 2 voluntarily They are: self-employed working abroad individuals employed abroad mariners on foreign vessels Class 4 liability follows income tax liability – when a self-employed person is working abroad there is no tax liability and therefore no Class 4 liability. This means these individuals could not accrue qualifying years for benefit entitlement via a profits test in Class 4. Therefore this group would need to pay Class 3 voluntary NICs instead to protect their State Pension record following the abolition of Class 2 NICs. This would align the voluntary NICs position of NICs payers overseas with those in the UK. |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Oh, and as a further comment: despite this consultation, I have already received the letter from HMRC detailing the Class 2 NIC schedule for the 2016/17 tax year. It's a standard letter for Class 2, and written as if for self-employed individuals in the UK.
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re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Originally Posted by Owen778
(Post 11897564)
Google found me this, which is what I think I've heard previously here. Overseas individuals working abroad would need to pay Class 3 instead.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consul...-self-employed Received my letter too. The budget did say today class 2 would be abolished April 2018. At least I'll get 2 more years out of it! |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Ah the irony of life. I have resisted for years thinking why would I pay into something that I am cynical enough to believe would get changed. Finally after much reading of posts here! I plunged in this year and recently forked over 6 back years payment. And now I discover this thread!. Oh well approx 730 pounds a year going forward (assuming they don't change the Class 3 rate) is still probably good value. And your right a couple more years of Class 2 is good
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re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Did a quick cost-benefit analysis earlier today, and for us (20ish years until UK pensionable age) it would take around 10.5 years to see payback for our annual investment.
I assumed the $1k a year would otherwise be invested here earning a real return of 5%, and that I'd then spend down the resulting pot of $2.8k to generate the same income stream that the pension contribution would otherwise have generated. So my decision point now is: - whether I think hubby and I will live until we're 78 (probably) - whether we'd prefer to have the lump sum investment rather than the UK pension income stream (pro of more flexible spending; potential lump for surviving spouse or the kids; bird-in-hand money rather than tied to future means-testing or residency whims of government; con of income tied to market vagaries rather than almost-guaranteed index linked annuity; might die young). I think I'll probably still pay it at Class 3 rates. I've got family genes into the 90s and am currently fit and healthy, so would probably win the longevity bet. If I live a long time, I'll be grateful for its security, and it will enable me to hold a higher stock allocation than I otherwise could, which might result in a larger old age buffer/ kid inheritance. And if I die young... well, I'll be dead, won't I? So I won't be thinking 'darn, waste of money paying those voluntary contributions'. Whereas Alive Old Me would be going 'woo hoo - win!' |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Maybe they'll grandfather us in. I never got a clear answer as to whether people subject to the 30-year rule were grandfathered in, I think they are, the 35-year rule only applies if you start making contributions after April 5th this year.
Anyway I've just done the math, and under the 30-year rule, my last Class 2 NI payment would be due April 1st, 2018. :rofl: Can't make it up! |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
I will do the calculation nearer the time, but I think I will probably choose not to pay Class 3 NICs.
We're thinking about retiring in our fifties. We currently have more of our savings inside retirement funds than outside, which can only be used with penalty after age 59 1/2, then each of US social security for two of us, my UK state pension and my small UK defined benefit work pension will start to pay out in our sixties. On that basis, it probably makes more sense to keep the money available and therefore out of a pension scheme. |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 11897651)
Maybe they'll grandfather us in. I never got a clear answer as to whether people subject to the 30-year rule were grandfathered in, I think they are, the 35-year rule only applies if you start making contributions after April 5th this year.
Anyway I've just done the math, and under the 30-year rule, my last Class 2 NI payment would be due April 1st, 2018. :rofl: Can't make it up! I retire in 22 years, and have 19 years of existing credits starting from the late 80s. I got a pension statement a year or two ago, and it was stuffed full of information about my estimated weekly benefit under the new system, and how I could voluntarily top it up another 16 years. I'd assume your pension will almost certainly be based on 35 years, and then there's a very faint possibility of being happily surprised. |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 11897651)
Maybe they'll grandfather us in. I never got a clear answer as to whether people subject to the 30-year rule were grandfathered in, I think they are, the 35-year rule only applies if you start making contributions after April 5th this year.
Anyway I've just done the math, and under the 30-year rule, my last Class 2 NI payment would be due April 1st, 2018. :rofl: Can't make it up! https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension/how-its-calculated |
re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Can not help but think the world will be VERY different in 20 plus years.
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re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Originally Posted by Boiler
(Post 11897769)
Can not help but think the world will be VERY different in 20 plus years.
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re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
Originally Posted by Boiler
(Post 11897769)
Can not help but think the world will be VERY different in 20 plus years.
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re: Class 2 NI. What about us poor expats paying voluntary contributions?
FYI folks, I just sent off for a pension forecast. I got my last one 5 years ago under the old rules and as I'll now be retiring under the "New State Pension" I need a new forecast.
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