Pensioners
You don't have to pay contributions from the month after you start receiving your Old Age Pension. If you’re employed, your employer must still pay the secondary (6.5%) Class 1 contribution.
When you reach pension age, if you have a blue registration card, take it to Customer and Local Services so that we can exchange it for a red one. The red card shows your employer that they shouldn’t deduct social security contributions from your wages. If you’re still employed, you should give the new card to your employer as soon as possible.
Students under 16
If you’re under 16 and working, you and your employer don’t have to pay contributions.
If you’re leaving Jersey
If you either leave the Island permanently, or are not in Jersey employment, you don’t have to pay contributions. Tell us when you leave so that we can update our records.
Tell us you're leaving Jersey
If you’re employed in Jersey, but temporarily working outside the Island, you may still have to pay contributions. Ask your employer to contact us to check. If you’re liable, we’ll issue you a certificate so that you can prove that you’re paying contributions in Jersey. This will stop you being chased for costs in the country that you’re living in.
If you’re coming to Jersey for the first time
If you haven’t been registered in Jersey and you don’t work for an employer, you don’t have to pay contributions straight away.
Once you have been in the Island for six months, you’ll have to start contributing.
If you’ve already been registered in Jersey, you’ll be liable for contributions as soon as you arrive in the Island.
How to register with Social Security
If you’re in prison or legal custody
If you’re in prison or legal custody and you continue to receive wages from an employer, both you and the employer have to pay contributions.
If you’re not receiving a salary, contributions will not be due for any month you are in prison or legal custody.
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