National Insurance has deducted some money off my pay but I'm a student - how do I go about in re-claiming it?

Question

Since I'm a student - I don't have to pay National Insurance contributions - but because I got paid quite alot one month (due to bonus payment at my job) - they've deducted some money from me. And so I have the right to re-claim it back - but I basically have no idea how to go about it! So I would appreciate answers that tell me what do precisely next.

Answer 1

The site below explains how to claim back NI etc

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndB...

Answer 2

Don't be so sure being a student makes you exempt. Your tax and insurance is decided from your earnings. If you earn more than the threshold you have to pay it, student or not.

Answer 3

You pay national insurance when you earn over a certain amount (around £100/week I think)  you don't claim it back, it's paying towards your state pension. You're confusing national insurance with income tax, which you can claim back if you don't earn enough.   Even as a student if you earned enough you would pay tax too.

Answer 4

Unfortunately for you, you do have to pay NI, irrespective who you are if you are working, if you earn over £ 83.00 per week then you have to pay. I get pretty hacked off when I hear students say they should not pay, when I was an apprentice electrician Earning  ÃƒÂ‚£ one pound seven and six a week I paid seven shillings and eightpence NI in old money of course and that was a long time ago and that was for working 48 hours per week.   Nobody kept us in those days apart from our parents, I do not see why students get money from the Government these days.

Answer 5

Being a student does not exempt you from paying NIC

Only the amount you earn decides whether its deducted or not. If you earn too much in one month then tough, sorry, but it will be deducted and you cannot reclaim it.

It is not worked out cumulatively like PAYE. But this bonus month will have also deducted alot of tax from you. This will be included in your forthcoming wage calculation and will be partially refunded in you have paid too much tax TO DATE than what is due.

Hope this does not sound too confusing.

Answer 6

if you go to the personel department at the place of your work, and discuss the situation they should give you the correct paper work and send it off you should recieve the money back in either the next wage or the month after.

Answer 7

Students in the UK DO pay NiC if you earn over 105 per week

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/students/nic_furt...

see also here http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxandu/index.htm... for details of how tax and Nic are woorked out (students are not exempt)

Answer 8

Unfortunately you still have to pay national insurance if your earnings exceed the threshold. Students are not exempt, once you are 16 national insurance can be deducted

Answer 9

No you can't claim it back . It counts towards your pension if that's any consolation.