National Insurance can be a nasty deduction from your paycheck each month and is set to get even nastier in April with the amount people pay set to rise.
Despite protests from Tory MPs who say the increase should be postponed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on January 27: "We have to fund the Covid backlog, we have to fix social care."
The new plans will see everyone who qualifies, the self-employed, employees and employers pay an extra 1.25p on the pound from April, the BBC reports.
