Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
Well done for that Steve

That's also major priority for me too and one of the contributing reasons causing us to stay on here in UK. Just want to be sure that my wife will make best use of her contributions to the state pension. Looks like the minimum number of contributing years will increase to some specified minimum. Maybe ending up being 11. Means she'll only qualify 2014....hopefully. Fingers crossed
It's my understanding you can buy those extra years

I was going to do this with my wife...even though she couldn't claim nothing until her retirement decades down the line, at least she could of got her full allowance