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National Insurance

How will payments be made?
The application form asks you if you wish to pay by Direct Debit from the start of your self-employment. In most cases this means that all contributions due from the start of your self-employment will be collected with the first payment from your Bank or Building Society.

If you do not wish to pay by Direct Debit from the start of your self-employment or we cannot arrange this, your Direct Debit will be started from a current date. We will then send you a separate bill for any contributions due from the start of your self-employment to the date your Direct Debit begins.

We will act at once to set up your Direct Debit, but it may take some weeks before the first National Insurance contributions are collected from your account. We will write to tell you when the first payment will be made. Please ensure that you have enough funds in your account to meet your first payment.

After that, payments:

will be made automatically for as long as you wish, and

will normally be deducted from your account on the second Friday of each month.

These payments will cover National Insurance contributions for either four or five weeks, depending on the number of Sundays in the preceding tax month. The tax month ends on the 5th of each month.