It is the only essential UK-wide adult identity reference.<\/p>\n
The \u2018number\u2019 itself is made up of both letters and numbers, however, they do not include D, F, I, Q, U or V to (historically) reduce handwriting errors\u2026 the combinations BG, GB, NK, KN, NT and ZZ are also excluded.<\/p>\n
There is a single letter at the very end of an NI number, but this ceased to have a use in 1975 when stamps stopped being pasted to record ca person\u2019s contributions during a year.<\/p>\n
Red and blue plastic cards were issued between 1984 and 2011, they are no longer of any use and we are not required to keep them.<\/p>\n
Prior to 1992, the school register was used to allocate numbers, therefore an ex-classmate may have the adjacent number to yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is the only essential UK-wide adult identity reference. The \u2018number\u2019 itself is made up of both letters and numbers, however, they do not include D, F, I, Q, U or V to (historically) reduce handwriting errors\u2026 the combinations BG, GB, NK, KN, NT and ZZ are also excluded. There is a single letter at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n