if you are claiming PIP, do your National Insurance payments get made?

Janice48

i'm 60 yrs old and have recently been awarded the standard rate of PIP allowance. I suffer from degenerative spine disease and cannot see myself working again. My question is, if you are claiming PIP, do your National Insurance payments get made or do you have to pay them yourselves?  I'm worried that if they're not kept up to date, I may not be entitled to a full State Pension when I retire.

steve51

Hi @Janice48

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CockneyRebel

Hi Janice and welcome
Do you also claim ESA ?
you can also check you entitlement to your state pension at

www.gov.uk/check-state-pension

CR

poppy123456

No, being in reciept of PIP will not pay your national Insurance.

Liam_Alumni

Hi @Janice48,

I've moved this post into our benefits advisor category for you. 

@BenefitsTrainingCo, can you help?

BenefitsTrainingCo

Hello Janice48. The people who have posted above are quite right to say that PIP does not bring with it any national insurance credit. The only benefits which bring you a Class 1 national insurance credit are the benefits which are intended to act as earnings replacements, such as jobseekers allowance, employment and support allowance and carers allowance. For instance, if you are not able to work because of your spinal condition, then you may perhaps be able to get employment and support allowance. This would depend on a few things, such as your work history. Can you come back to us on this forum and give us a bit more information about your situation? Alternatively, you can have a look at the Benefits Calculator part of this Scope website, which is run by www.turn2us.org.uk. If you put your income, work and household details (anonymously) into the calculator, it will give you a good idea of what you might be able to claim. I also suggest that you follow Cockney Rebel's suggestion and contact the DWP's pension service to find out what the current status of your state pension is - you never know, you may already have got enough contributions!
Hope this helps,

Jayne