Voluntary contributions

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Services

• Voluntary National Insurance

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

• Apply to pay voluntary Class 3 National Insurance contributions

  Paying Class 3 contributions can close gaps in your National Insurance record which could benefit you, find out when you should make them and how to pay using form CA5603.

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News and communications

• Online voluntary National Insurance payments service launches
  • 29 April 2024
  • HM Revenue & Customs and Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• Deadline for voluntary National Insurance contributions extended to April 2025
  • 12 June 2023
  • HM Revenue & Customs and Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release
• Taxpayers given more time for voluntary National Insurance contributions
  • 7 March 2023
  • HM Revenue & Customs and Department for Work and Pensions
  • Press release

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Policy papers and consultations

• National Insurance contributions: extending the voluntary National Insurance contributions deadline
  • 20 July 2023
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• HM Revenue & Customs
• Department for Work & Pensions