My wife is a WASPI warrior ! Seen our MP at the H of P for tea and talk and been on a couple of protests.
Strange how they were soo very supportive of the campaign in opposition and now silent virtually - you can add that to the list
Good luck to her with that, we were lucky and just made the good dates by days to get the better pension.
Heather's I paid 7k in to fill up her missing years for the full pension, she gets the full pension but mine is reduced as I have three other ex final salary ones running - nobody warns you before hand though
She was a fulltime Mum to our three as I worked overseas a lot.
Yes, NIC and their implications are not always widely publicised, and its often too late to correct it when you do find out, usually later in your career as your look more closely at retirement funding. I always made sure that I was paid from the UK when working abroad, so paid all the NIC contributions, but it is possible to pay NIC whilst abroad,
My wife has just 5 weeks short of the minimum 10 years Irish contributions to get a Irish pension and as she has all the necessary 35 years qualifying for the UK pension, her near 10 years Irish contributions wont help. She misses the WASPI cut-off date by 3 months. As in all things in life, there has to be a cut-off point and inevitably it may create unfairness on those just the other side of it.
