State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people in receipt of the State Pension live outside the UK have less than (a) 35, (b) 20, (c) 10 and (d) 5 years of National Insurance contributions.
Answered by Torsten Bell
The information on the years of National Insurance contributions for State Pension recipients living outside the UK is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
The Department publishes the volumes of State Pension recipients living outside the UK on StatXplore Stat-Xplore - Log in. The latest figure, for the quarter ending August 2024, is around 1.1 million State Pension recipients living outside the UK. This is 8.5% of the overall State Pension caseload.
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