TaxpayerSi

I have another question please; MY partner would like to check her NI credits/gaps but has been unable to login to Government Gateway as she has no valid passport or driving license. She has tried a number of times including the security questions and bank account route, but has never been successfully able to log on; how can she get a Government Gateway account setup/confirmed please?

Is the scheme outlined in "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tax-simplification-update-january-2024/tax-simplification-update-january-2024" CONFIRMED as actually going to happen? Similar to many others on this forum, my partner did not claim Child Benefit when we had our first child in 2015 because my salary meant we would not receive any net payment, this continued when we had our second child in 2022. It has just been realised that she will have missing NI credits for those years, when although not entitled to any CB payment, she has been entitled to the NI credits but has not claimed them. It is this April 2025 deadline that brings it to a head, as I don't want to have to pay for 10 years of missing Class 3 NICs now and then find out that if the scheme to backfill missed NI Credit entitlement happens, they say there are no NI credit gaps to fill and reject any claims. Don't know what to do, if we wait until April 2026 and this Government cancels the intended plan, we'll be left with my partner having vastly reduced pension despite us being fully paid up between us simply because my partner didn't claim for Child Benefit that she wasn't going to receive...