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> the National Insurance contribution that gets deducted from my paycheck in the UK National Insurance nominally covers state pension and unemployment benefits
by bboreham 9y ago
> the National Insurance contribution that gets deducted from my paycheck in the UK
National Insurance nominally covers state pension and unemployment benefits, not the health service.
Of course, it all goes into one pot of money, but your entitlement to the above goes up the more years of NI you have paid in, whereas your entitlement to NHS does not change.