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Voluntary Contributions

Commons · Question 76678 · Tabled 11 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 18 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Steve Darling

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the April 2025 deadline for backdated voluntary National Insurance Contributions, how many requests for callbacks were logged by his Department before 6 April 2025; how many callbacks

Answer

Answered by Torsten Bell, 18 Sep 2025

In total, DWP received c528,000 call-back requests from customers ahead of the voluntary National Insurance Contributions (VNICS) deadline of 5 April 2025. The Department has taken a two-stage approach to actioning these requests.Stage 1 was to gather per...