National Insurance

A pensioner has created an ice sculpture as part of a campaign to highlight the dangers people face when being unable to afford to heat their homes.

The cut to NI announced in the Spring Budget and minimum wages rises from April mean young people aged between 16 and 23 will pay less NI but be paid a higher hourly wage.But companies will be pulled into a ‘fiscal drag’ and pay more in NI contributions and wages for staff on the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage, which rise on April 1.