Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
I'm not disputing that ... but how come I had to amass 40 years of NI stamps when others claim it's 30?
was there not a different scheme ?before what we have now, i vagely remember it being changed when i first started out as an apprentice,,,

there may have been 3 items taken off your wage, 1, tax,, 2 a national ins contribution,( but it might have had a different name) 3 there was something else not sure its name, but i think it might have been to cover sickness and or unemployment,
anyway it was changed and a new name which was nat ins contributions, but no one recieved anything back from the old system that they had been paying into, ??

i remember the older guys complaining of that.