Hi. I am in an awful situation! I have just found out that the small employer I had been working for for two years, has not been paying my National Insurance contributions. The company has now gone bust and I am - you have guessed it - terribly afraid that I have now lost those National Insurance contributions!!! What should I do now?
Get in touch with the Inland Revenue straight away and ask them to get their side of the story. I have heard about such things happening - in the case of a friend of mine working in the same firm as me, the boss did not pay NI stamps for a full tax year. She got the stamps credited anyway and her employed was fined. In the case of a firm that went bankrupt, it might be slightly different though. But I am convinced that some solution will be found.
