National Insurance

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On my latest ‘remuneration slip’ (must remember not to call it pay! must remember not to call it pay!) I have been docked £20.91 for National Insurance (that’s for 2 days at Sqn Ldr). This has, as far as I remember, never happened before in my 10 years as a VR(T). I pay NI on my main job, so this is what HMRC calls my ‘second employment’, whatever HQAC want to call it…

Is this a new thing? a change of regulation by HMRC? something HQAC should have been doing before but have only just realised?

I have emailed them but not had a reply - they are probably focussed on clearing the backlog which seems to be happening, slowly.

All help gratefully received: I don’t want to lose hundreds in unnecessary NI contributions.

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This is why pay claims are up in arms and suffering horrendous delays. There is a new pay system at HQ AC linked to HM Gov now and it calculates everything but takes ages to input and sort apparently. If I do a camp I get something like 3 days paying NI and 5 days free of it on separate payslips and as I am a stay at home dad I have never been taxed or paid NI before.

Who knows…

edited to add. I understand if you don’t normally pay it it gets added back at some point when HM Gov says its OK to pay back. Go figure.