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Pension provision: NI contributions, qualifying years and second tier pensions: April 2013

Pension provision statistics: NI contributions, people who qualify for State Pension and people with second tier pension cover 鈥� Apr 2013.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
30 April 2013

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Details

Use these first release statistics to find out how many people:

  • qualify for a State Pension
  • have some kind of second tier pension cover
  • pay various classes of National Insurance in each tax year

You can also explore the data 鈥� for example, by age, gender and method of qualification.

These statistics were previously known as 鈥楴ational Insurance Contributions and qualifying years and Second Tier Pension Provision鈥�.

Main points

In tax year 2011/12 there were:

  • 28.6 million people making National Insurance contributions
  • 27.4 million people with some form of second tier pension cover
  • 25.3 million people covered under the State Second Pension

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Published 30 April 2013

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