Two-month warning issued to anyone with a National Insurance number

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All adults in Britain with a National Insurance number have been issued a warning. Millions of people have been warned that rates are set to rise, along with the cost of pretty much everything else to do with living right now.

From April, National Insurance tax will increase by 10% per month - and will cost people hundreds more every year. The PM has been facing pressure from within his own party to scrap or at least delay the National Insurance (NI) increase of 1.25 percentage points - the equivalent to a 10 per cent increase in deductions from pay packets across the country from April. READ MORE: DWP could be monitoring your private life without consent if you're on Universal Credit, PIP or State Pension Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak put on a united front as they made a firm commitment to go ahead with a controversial tax rise designed to tackle the Covid-induced NHS backlog and reform social care.

Writing in The Sunday Times, Mr Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak insisted that it is right to follow through on the “progressive” policy. “We must clear the Covid backlogs, with our plan for health and social care - and now is the time to stick to that plan.

We must go ahead with the health and care levy. It is the right plan,” they said. National Insurance is a tax on earnings paid by employees, employers and the self-employed who pay it on their profits.