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Martin Lewis has urged savers to not miss out on the prospect so as to add up to £221 a week to their state pension – and it comes as an important deadline approaches.

On Tuesday evening’s episode of The Martin Lewis Cash Present Stay on ITV1, the money guru defined that anybody who has labored for over 10 years and who has earned more than £6,396 a 12 months is eligible to obtain a state pension.

The utmost potential worth, £221.20 a week, shouldn’t be given out mechanically however relies on whether or not you could have a full file or not.

Any worker incomes over £6,396 a 12 months receives national insurance coverage (NI) credit on the finish of the 12 months. You need to have labored for no less than 10 years to be eligible to obtain a state pension.

Mr Lewis stated on his show: “You get the full state pension at 35 years.”

However he warned: “It is not 35 years for everyone, it can be a lot more.

“Once you get to your full contribution amount, then you get the state pension – £221.20 a week.”

All residents beneath the age of 73 have till April 5 to spice up their state pension quantities for retirement.

This leaves simply you few weeks to high up your pension pot by as a lot as £50,000, because the deadline to ‘buy back’ any lacking national insurance coverage years from 2006 to 2018 approaches.

‘Buying’ one of these prices £824, however there may be a healthy return on this investment. Every year crammed will end in an additional £328 a 12 months in state pension pre-tax.

This implies you’ll get the £824 back in beneath three years.

For those who lived even an average life expectancy, that may very well be as a lot as £70,000 or more paid out to you on high of your regular pension payouts in case you purchased back all 13 lacking years earlier than the deadline passes.

In some cases, savers could solely need to high up a 12 months by small quantities to fill it. However simply by paying a small quantity, you possibly can enhance yearly retirement age income by a whole lot of kilos.

These already set to obtain the utmost £220.21 quantity received’t need to take motion.

This week, the Division for Work and Pensions confirmed it had given candidates additional time to use by including a ‘request a callback’ type to its web site. Which means in case you can’t get by to the Pension Service (in case you’re a pensioner now) or the Future Pensions Service (in case you haven’t retired but), you may nonetheless buy back years after the deadline has handed in the event that they call you back later.

Nevertheless, many people are lacking previous NI years as a consequence of having a low income, not claiming credit correclty, having a profession break or working overseas.

Martin stated: “Getting those back… that is what can be worth tens of thousands of pounds.”

The money expert stressed that this is “urgent” because the state pension top-up deadline approaches.