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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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Chapter 39: National insurance contributions
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 6: National insurance, work and work-related rules
Chapter 39: National insurance contributions
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Chapter 39: National insurance contributions
Key facts
1. National insurance contributions and contributory benefits
How decisions are made
2. Paid national insurance contributions
The rules about your age
Employed earners and self-employed earners
More than one job
Class 1 contributions
Class 2 contributions
Class 2 contributions and maternity allowance
Class 3 contributions
Class 3A contributions
Reduced liability for married women and widows
Coming from abroad and going abroad
Improving your contribution record
Late payment of contributions
3. National insurance credits
Retirement pensions and credits
Credits for unemployment
Credits for limited capability for work or incapacity for work
Credits for universal credit
Credits for certain parents and carers
Credits for home responsibilities protection
Credits for family members providing childcare
Credits for carer's allowance or carer support payment
Starting credits
Education and training credits
Credits for statutory maternity, adoption, paternity, shared parental, parental bereavement pay and neonatal care pay
Credits for jury service
Credits following bereavement
Credits for tax credits
Credits for a quashed conviction
Credits for service families
4. Contribution conditions for benefits
Jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance
When the contribution conditions do not apply
The first condition: paid contributions
The second condition: paid or credited contributions
The timing of your claim
Bereavement support payment
Widowed parent's allowance
Retirement pensions
State pension
This chapter explains the national insurance (NI) contribution rules relevant to contributory benefits. For details of the NI number requirement that applies to most benefits, see
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CPAG. "Chapter 39: National insurance contributions." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 10, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-265285CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 39: National insurance contributions." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 10, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-265285CITANCHOR.
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