NI number for almost 16 year old

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I think we received some correspondence telling us that our daughter would receive her national insurance number soon. She is 16 in September.

Thing is, whether it's a letter or an email. I can't find it and no one else in the house remembers anything about it. It seems like an unlikely thing for me to have imagined and it is driving me mad.

DD's boyfriend, who is 16 around the same time says he has received his NI card in the post.

Does anyone else have an almost 16 year old? Did you get a letter or an email about their NI number? If I have lost it, does your letter say what we have to do?

I don’t think you have to do anything? I think it just comes in the post and is a letter

We got a letter. You don't get cards any more, it says that in the letter.

There is a link on the HMRC website to apply for the letter to be sent out again, we had to do this for ds who lost the letter. You have to dig around a bit to fins the option becauae it first tells you to look on your payslip. Once we found the right link it was easy and arrived quickly.

Also, if they have a child trust fund (is that the right name for the account you could open for babies around that age and the government put some money in it or something?) the reference number on that is their NI number.

It's actually generated when you're born but they don't send it to until you're nearly 16.

This.

It's definitely a letter as cards were discontinued years ago.

If your dc has a child trust fund then the Unique Reference Number on that is their NI number. Its in the format AB123456Z

Yes a letter. My Dc got his a few weeks before his 16th.

Do you or have you claimed child benefit for them as that ensures they get the NI number automatically so they don't need to apply for it

My DD is 16 in September. I had a letter recently to check that her surname is correct before they issue the NI number. Could that be what you're thinking of? As long as the letter had the correct details you didn't need to do anything.

The letter with her Ni number will come soon, its normally sent within 3 months of the 16th birthday.

The card no longer gets sent. It was a cost cutting thing.

All the card did was remind you what your NI number is. The card didn't do anything other than that.

(I still have mine 😁)

DD’s boyfriend is bizarre - why say he received a card when he clearly didn’t?!

Do you get child benefit op? If not then i think you may have to apply for a NI number

My twins have just turned 16 and I was sent their NI numbers through the post, no card, just in a letter, about a month before their birthday. However a couple of years ago their older sister started a job and we realised we hadn’t had an NI number. I went on the Government website and requested one using their online chat, it came through by post quite quickly.

Ah - you might have something here.

If it was just to confirm her name

• this would explain why I remember it but now don't have it!

That's a relief.

We did get child benefit. So she should get the next letter eventually and if we don't, I will brave the HMRC website.

Thanks all