– What is a National insurance Number.You’re national insurance number or NINO is unique. Everyone who has applied or have been given one is different. The format of the number is 2 letters followed by 6 numbers and 1 letter ( AB 12 34 56 E). It’s used to track you’re national insurance contributions and benefits which you are paid. You cannot let anyone else use you’re number.– Why you need a national insurance number.If you live in the UK you will be given one before you’re 16 birthday. If you are a UK resident and over the 16 years old you can use our replacement applications to get your national insurance number confirmed in writing.
Apply for your National Insurance Number (U.K tax number) in order to pay the correct amount of tax. UK Employers need their employees National Insurance Numbers in order to pay National Insurance contributions and tax. Click here to apply. You have a National Insurance number to make sure your National Insurance contributions and tax are recorded against your name only. It’s made up of letters and numbers and never changes.
If you are a non-UK resident you will need a national insurance number to work, even if you are studying. Employers need the number in order to make tax deductions to you’re wages. You won’t be able to gain employment without a national insurance number. Once you have been issued a number you can not change it and you can not apply for a new one, instead you will need to get your old number confirmed to you in writing. National insurance numbers cannot be told over the telephone. You will need to apply for a replacement.– National insurance number process.All applicants will need to attend an identity interview at their local Job Centre in order to received a national insurance number.
Applicants will generally get an appointment 1-2 weeks after applying. If you get accepted after your identity appointment it will take 3-6 weeks for your national insurance number to arrive in the post. We as an independent agency will check your information and book you into an identity interview. A travel route can be provided to your appointment location upon request. We can also advise on possible questions that could get asked and will explain to you the documents that would be acceptable to take. – Lost NumbersYou do not have to worry if you have lost your National Insurance card.
You are able to order a replacement online. Once you have applied, you will receive your National Insurance number on a letter headed paper from the HRMC, this is due to HMRC no longer distributing NIN cards. In order for us to process your application for a replacement National Insurance number, you will need to give us the following; Full name and any previous names, full address and previous addresses (if applicable), date of birthday and marriage details.Once your application has been processed, you will receive forms to replace the lost NIN card via post, which you will need to sign and return in the stamped addressed envelope provided. It will take between 4-6 weeks to receive your NIN from date of sending.Your National Insurance number is stated on either your pay slip from previous employment, P60 or on a tax return. If you are still unable to retrieve your NIN, you can apply for a replacement online.
You cannot receive this information via telephone– Name ChangeIf you have Officially changed your name you will need to let the HMRC know. Your documents will arrive via post. They will be pre-printed, checked for omissions and will contain a first class envelope so you can send them to the correct department at the HMRC.
Contents.Allocation of number People born and resident in the UK are assigned a Child Reference Number shortly after birth when a claim is made for. At age 15 years 9 months notifies each child of their NI number.In 1993, a one-off mass allocation of NI numbers was made to all children under the age of 16 whose parents were in receipt of Child Benefit. As a result of this, siblings who met the criteria above were allocated NI numbers sequentially.Persons from abroad who wish to work in the UK, or those to whom a number was not initially allocated as children, must apply for a number through the (DWP).The prefixes used are typically different from those used in the normal run.
Format The format of the number is two prefix letters, six digits and one suffix letter. The example used is typically QQ123456C. Often, the number is printed with spaces to pair off the digits, like this: QQ 12 34 56 C.Neither of the first two letters can be D, F, I, Q, U or V.
The second letter also cannot be O. The prefixes BG, GB, NK, KN, TN, NT and ZZ are not allocated. Validation lists of issued two-letter prefixes are published from time to time.After the two prefix letters, the six digits are issued sequentially from 00 00 00 to 99 99 99. The last two digits determine the day of the week on which various social security benefits are payable and when unemployed claimants need to attend their to sign on (renew their claims): 00 to 19 for Monday, 20 to 39 for Tuesday, 40 to 59 for Wednesday, 60 to 79 for Thursday and 80 to 99 for Friday.The suffix letter is either A, B, C, or D. (although F, M, and P have been used for temporary numbers in the past). The NI number is unique without the suffix letter , so, for example, if AB 12 34 56 C exists, then there will be no other numbers beginning with AB 12 34 56 (although temporary numbers were not necessarily unique, because two people with the same date of birth would have had the same number).
In official electronic submissions, the final letter may be represented by a space if not known.Until 1975, the suffixes A, B, C and D at the end of the NI number signified the period of validity of the National Insurance cards originally used to collect National Insurance contributions (NICs). Cards were exchanged every twelve months and because of the very large numbers of cards issued the exchange was staggered. Suffix A cards ran from March of one year until March of the next when they were exchanged for a new one. Stagger B suffix cards ran from June until the following June, stagger C from September until the following September and stagger D from December until the following December. For example, a B stagger card issued in 1955 might have run from the first Monday in June that year until the first Sunday in June the following year. This staggered system operated from 5 July 1948 until 1975, at which time the A stagger cards were extended to run an extra five weeks, until 5 April 1975, in line with the end of the tax year. The B, C and D stagger NI Cards had a shorter period of validity in their final year, and ran from June, September and December respectively in 1974 until 6 April 1975.
From 6 April 1975 onwards, a computerised National Insurance Recording System (NIRS) was used to allocate all NICs by tax years.In Great Britain, expired NI cards were sorted into one hundred separate groups corresponding to the final two numbers of the NI number and were posted to the individual insured person's NI account (the RF1) by the corresponding one hundred ledger sections at the Records Branch of the Central Office of the and its successors—the (from 1945), (1953), the (1968), (1988), and (since 2001). These 100 sections dealt not only with the recording of NI contributions but with requests for information about qualifying contributions necessary to pay sickness, unemployment, widows, and other benefits and also with any correspondence arising from those NI accounts and NI cards. Within each of the 100 sections, NI numbers were allocated among 16 splits with one clerk administering each split. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
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