national insurance number

[aghadowey]

Sorry, should have added that 'my' 1952 one starts with a B 

[ricky1]

Hi Carol

I was born in March, yet mine is a D
My wifes is YL and she was born 1950  

[aghadowey]

Wonder if it's possible that a series would have been issued for a certain district rather than for all of U.K.?

[NEILKE]

mine starts with m and finishers in c dob oct 1963
neil

[RJ_Paton]

Wonder if it's possible that a series would have been issued for a certain district rather than for all of U.K.?

That's probably spot on .... remember in the main we are talking about pre computerised databases and the only way they would have to prevent duplication would be to issue blocks to different area offices to allocate

[toni*]

i heard through the grapevine that when people filled in the draft regsitartion form (or whatever it was called sorry for being so vague)  in 1939 they were given a number which made up part of the person NI no.
so if the person NI no. is known they can be located on the form filled in in 1939
(confused?)
aplogies the above info. is wrong and thisis correct:
the 1939 National Registration which was a record of the civilian population as at 29th September 1939. The information gathered was used to provide ID cards for people during the war. Everyone was given a number. These numbers were later used as original NHS numbers.

[behindthefrogs]

When I was issued with my National Insurance Number at the age of 17 I had to go to the local office to obtain it.  The card was preprinted or at least pre-completed with the number and I was issued with the next one from a pile.  This was the standard procedure in the 1950s and no-one had a number before they started work.

Thus the prefix letters of ZW bear no resemblance to my age and the numbers and final letter were just the next in sequence.

David

[Chrisann]

I was only considering the numbers and not the letters of my NI number - the letters are YL, and I was born in 1949. Chrisann

[salmynka]

ADDED- don't forget that these are issued by government departments,so will naturally be as confusing as possible !

  yes it seems all rather befuddling!