Thousands of people have been given more time to plug gaps in their pension after the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) was overwhelmed with demand in the lead up to the original deadline of April 5.
The DWP has now extended the last date to buy voluntary National Insurance (NI) payments after a campaign to urge the public to check their pension entitlement led to queues on the phone lines as people scrambled to act before the original April 5 deadline. The cut-off date has now been extended until July 31 to give people more time to ensure they get the full state pension when they retire.
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