Dan Hodder

Dear Sir or Madam, Thanks for getting back to me; we are based in Jersey. I've written to Mel Stride MP (Minister for Work and Pensions) and my old local MP to shine some light on the situation here while notifying the States of Jersey that UK citizens are currently struggling (to put it mildly) to pay into their state pensions. I appreciate you getting back to me and thank you for the link, which appears to show that I can expect a letter back in May 2023 (8 months after writing), but the forum above should signal that the situation is far from satisfactory, which I am sure you are aware of yourself. I'll keep trying the phone lines and I hope to get some success with highlighting this issue. Thanks 

Dear Admin, My wife and I have been working overseas for around three years and are keen to make voluntary payments. Do you have any updates? I've written full letters and completed all the required paperwork and noticed via my Govt. Gateway that this paperwork has been received. I wrote back in October 2022, and again in February 2023, having not heard back. The progress (as cited above) is blocked, your phone numbers simply hang up (tried over 10 times or hours) and your website to view pension contributions, leads to a dead end, in so far as the link titled "how to pay" leads to a webpage on seeking advice on how to pay rather a payment page. I would really like to get this resolved, as part of our family plan to work overseas for a period was the ability to top up our State Pension at the same time, and it seems so needless that we have the fund to pay, want to pay, but the administration of a website and call centre are blocking our path? Any advice would be hugely appreciated.