You will normally be sent a National Insurance (NI) number, which looks something like AB123456C, just before your 16th birthday. You'll only ever be issued with one NI number, and it stays the same for life. It keeps a record of your National Insurance contributions, which over your working life can entitle you to some benefits and a state pension.
Just had an interesting conversation in the bank whilst filling out my NI number on a form. According to the.financial advisor chap, the single letter at the end of your number denotes the order/priority in which you would be conscripted in the event of another total world war. A would be the first set called up, then B etc. Although it sounded plausible, having tried to Google it there is nothing butn supposition about it online. Also, my number as a 23 year old male ends in the same letter as my 58 year old mother, which seems unlikely if it is to do with conscription priority. Can anyone confirm or refute this theory with an evidence based link?
I would be vary about taking financial advice from someone that talks such drivel.
Monday 19th January 2015
Sounds like total cobblers. You keep the same NI number for life so, by that theory, I will still be first in line for a call-up if I'm lucky enough to reach 85 - I'm more than half-way there, and still an 'A' - Putin must be bricking it...
Monday 19th January 2015
I like the theory, although it is probably about being able to make even more permutations of any nine digit string of numbers (and two prefixed letters of course).
Monday 19th January 2015
The single letter at the end of mine is C. My little sister's is D. My older brother's is B. Want to guess what my oldest brother's is?
Mine is A. I am the youngest of 4. In your family's case it is entirely a coincidence.
Monday 19th January 2015
Ignore me - I misread doogz's post...
Monday 19th January 2015
The single letter at the end of mine is C. My little sister's is D. My older brother's is B. Want to guess what my oldest brother's is?
Mine is D. I have no siblings. Well, two halves but as we know, that doesn't make a whole. Sounds like utter cobblers, would presume they'd start with birth years and 17 year olds and go upwards from there to the progressively less fit and able. I'd presume there'd be a call for volunteers initially at least, rather than going straight to conscription.
Monday 19th January 2015
Just had an interesting conversation in the bank whilst filling out my NI number on a form. According to the.financial advisor chap, the single letter at the end of your number denotes the order/priority in which you would be conscripted in the event of another total world war. A would be the first set called up, then B etc. Although it sounded plausible, having tried to Google it there is nothing butn supposition about it online. Also, my number as a 23 year old male ends in the same letter as my 58 year old mother, which seems unlikely if it is to do with conscription priority. Can anyone confirm or refute this theory with an evidence based link?
I've heard that before too, but I took it with a pinch of salt.
Monday 19th January 2015
The first two letters relate to your year of birth.
Monday 19th January 2015
Monday 19th January 2015
The first two letters relate to your year of birth.
I was born in 19JM
Monday 19th January 2015
I'm calling Urban Myth, unless someone can come up with some evidence to substantiate this.
Monday 19th January 2015
Sounds like total cobblers. You keep the same NI number for life so, by that theory, I will still be first in line for a call-up if I'm lucky enough to reach 85 - I'm more than half-way there, and still an 'A' - Putin must be bricking it...
Nail on head. If there were to be any conscription is would be based on age, and job. Just like it was last time. Both are variables, so they wouldn't be tied to a fixed letter.
Monday 19th January 2015
The single letter at the end of mine is C. My little sister's is D. My older brother's is B. Want to guess what my oldest brother's is?
Mine is A. I am the youngest of 4. In your family's case it is entirely a coincidence.Mine's a D and I'm the eldest of four.
Monday 19th January 2015
The first two letters relate to your year of birth.
I was born in 19JMSame year as me (Though going on your username, probably not )
Monday 19th January 2015
Mine is B. If what the OP said is true, I'm disappointed because I want to be first in line to be given a gun and start putting bullets in the communist horde as they rampage through Europe.
Monday 19th January 2015
I'm D so I'll be going in and grabbing the glory after all the A-C cannon fodder have softened them up
Monday 19th January 2015
Okay, so I was given the number at 16(?) and yes, it ends with an A... ... that was a long time ago!! They wouldnt want me now.
Monday 19th January 2015
Complete and utter horsest. Also, if your 'advisor' is that dumb i'd strongly suggest you look elsewhere.
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Contents.Allocation of number Shortly before a person's 16th birthday, notifies them 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.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.
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