Lost my national insurance card
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I believe HMRC no longer issues replacement National Insurance cards.
You don't need to have a card - it's the number that's important.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ni/intro/number.htm#5
Edit- I lost two in the past myself.
It's a bit pointless keeping it in your wallet though
You don't need to have a card - it's the number that's important.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ni/intro/number.htm#5
Edit- I lost two in the past myself.
It's a bit pointless keeping it in your wallet though
I'm going to guess you're under twenty 
. Nobody over that age carries theirs about. I suspect most people don't even know where it is.
I'm well over 20. I have no clue where my NI card is, and I have never (in more than 20 years) been asked for it.
If you don't know your NI number, that's another matter.
. Nobody over that age carries theirs about. I suspect most people don't even know where it is.I'm well over 20. I have no clue where my NI card is, and I have never (in more than 20 years) been asked for it.
If you don't know your NI number, that's another matter.
From the HMRC webs
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te:HMRC said:
If you've lost or can't remember your National Insurance number or lost your National Insurance number card
If you've lost or can't remember your number, you might be able to find it on official paperwork like:
your P60 (end of year tax statement, given to you by your employer)
a payslip
a copy of your annual Self Assessment tax return
other official correspondence
If you still can't find your number, you can ask HMRC to confirm it by:
completing and returning form CA5403 Your National Insurance number
contacting the National Insurance Registrations Helpline on Tel 0845 915 7006 (lines open 8.30 am to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday)
HMRC cannot confirm your National Insurance number by telephone. They will write to you instead.
If you've lost your National Insurance number card
As announced by the Chancellor on 10 September 2010, HMRC no longer issues replacement National Insurance cards. You don't need to have a card - it's the number that's important. If you can't remember your number, find out what to do by reading the section above.
If you've lost or can't remember your number, you might be able to find it on official paperwork like:
your P60 (end of year tax statement, given to you by your employer)
a payslip
a copy of your annual Self Assessment tax return
other official correspondence
If you still can't find your number, you can ask HMRC to confirm it by:
completing and returning form CA5403 Your National Insurance number
contacting the National Insurance Registrations Helpline on Tel 0845 915 7006 (lines open 8.30 am to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday)
HMRC cannot confirm your National Insurance number by telephone. They will write to you instead.
If you've lost your National Insurance number card
As announced by the Chancellor on 10 September 2010, HMRC no longer issues replacement National Insurance cards. You don't need to have a card - it's the number that's important. If you can't remember your number, find out what to do by reading the section above.
speedchick said:
When are the youngsters supposed to be issued with a NI number? My daughter turned 16 a couple of weeks back and is still waiting for hers, I seem to remember getting mine about a month before my 16th?
I got mine a couple of months before my 16th, but some of my friends got theirs a bit after.No need to worry yet.
Deva Link said:
OK, but why do people under 20 carry them? They never have anything else they're supposed to and most will have lost purses / wallets several times as teenagers.
Or is that the point - they won't have it by the time they're 20 as they'll have already lost it?
My point is that teenagers like to cram their wallets with all kinds of official stuff, so they can look important Or is that the point - they won't have it by the time they're 20 as they'll have already lost it?
, but as one gets older, one realises that nobody is impressed.I'm 22 and I've never carried mine. Still managed to lose it though. I'm always being told you'll need it for things all the time. I've used it for my current job and my student loans and that's it. Think youngers tend to use it more because they tend to have multiple jobs over a short period. A mate of mine while in college and uni had 3 part time jobs on the go and would often drop the worst one and find a better one somewhere else.
MartynVRS said:
I'm 22 and I've never carried mine. Still managed to lose it though. I'm always being told you'll need it for things all the time. I've used it for my current job and my student loans and that's it. Think youngers tend to use it more because they tend to have multiple jobs over a short period. A mate of mine while in college and uni had 3 part time jobs on the go and would often drop the worst one and find a better one somewhere else.
Thing is, you can do that without the card, it's the number that's important, the card is just handy so you don't have to go looking for an old payslip/P60 when applying for a job.I have no idea where mine is.
Doofus said:
My point is that teenagers like to cram their wallets with all kinds of official stuff, so they can look important , but as one gets older, one realises that nobody is impressed.
used to use mine for proof of age for buying fags donkeys years ago, seems like an alien world know 1) needing ID for proof of age, 2) 16 year olds buying fags, but as one gets older, one realises that nobody is impressed.It was kind of a badge of honour getting the card through when I was a kid, used to carry it everywhere, "look at me, Im a grown up now" sort-of-thing..
Fook knows where it is now though!
I never had one to begin with, although it was an annoyance trying to find out what my NI number was when I started working, had a temporary number for a while and some NI contributions got lost in the system for a bit but it all got sorted in the end, still don't know what my number is but its written down somewhere.
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