Can I find out when I first started paying NI contributions?

I was young once but the teachers at my school believed in teaching. I got a job at 16. Later I did a degree and professional training.

When I get old I will not be expecting the government to help me I will have a rental income. I also don't expect to retire until I am in my 70s.

You act like my circumstances will be like that of people in the future. When I was in my teens people didn't get a degree and then work in McDonalds or a call centre.

In message , Peter Saxton writes

Unfortunately there are scores of graduates applying for each graduate level job nowadays... When I was in my teens I was on a school apprenticeship, with one day per week at a Technical College. Then at 22 my career was interrupted by two years RAF National Service, which screwed things up for many of my generation.

With regard to "help from the government", I am still helping the government at age 76, through taxes.

I wish you good health, because we never know what debilitating disease faces us. My father died suddenly, at 60, and all the Directors of the company attended his funeral. Big deal! That is why I grabbed the chance of early retirement age 58.

My life-long friend was a bachelor, still cycle racing in his 60s, and playing tennis regularly, when he was hit by Motor Neurone Disease. He took 3 years to die, and even then the NHS care had to be supplemented from his life savings as he wasted away. By the time you or I need health care, we will be paying for it ourselves, because the NHS is being dismantled by the current government.

Even the Torygraph reports that today...

Working people simply won't stay to be taxed to pay for families to be given a house for their 3 and 4 kids along with pensioners.