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How someone in Poland can get documents prepared, witnessed or certified, take an oath of British citizenship and obtain informative notes.
How the Northern Ireland Protocol affects supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and what it means you need to do when applying for an SPC and afterwards.
Use the revaluation of earnings factors to calculate your scheme member’s GMP.
Section last updated: April 2024.
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Sections (25.01 - 25.15) last updated: April 2021.
Section (SPP0.01 - SPP21.01) last updated: October 2022.
Section last updated December 2015.
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