During Year 11 you will receive a National Insurance Number Card. This is personal to you, and when you start work you’ll need to tell your employer its number.
Once you get a job and are earning a wage over a set amount you’ll start to ‘earn’ National Insurance contributions and make a contribution to them too. National Insurance contributions are made to provide you with benefits at times when you are unable to work. The most common of these are:
- contributory Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Statutory Sick Pay
- Statutory Maternity Pay
- State Retirement Pension.
Rates and allowances are reviewed each year by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and changes announced in the annual Budget.
If you don’t receive your National Insurance Number Card, or mislay it you’ll need to contact the National Insurance Registrations Helpline on 0845 915 7006.
You can use the library in your Connexions Centre too as it has information for you to read or take away.