Just found out in 40s

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My NI number starts with my initials. So I assumed everyone’s did. Just found out it’s a weird coincidence.
What random thing have you recently discovered too?!

The systems wouldn't have been so computeriesed in the past and may be they did some kind of catch up exercise so it would make sense that they might be done by family with consecutive numbers for siblings your NI number is generated when the parent claims child benefit, there can be no catch up.

@JungleBeats

Can people not read ?

OP I found out via Tick Tock of all things that you shove the plastic parts of a toilet block toilet cleaner up inside the rim and not over the top of it.

“Tick Tock” 😂 I agree, that’s how it should be spelt!

@AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair Well they both told me, and clearly I can’t be trusted to keep quiet. So obviously not! 😂

As alluded to above the first two letters refer to the decade you were born (roughly) so for example anyone with a NINO starting N was probably born in the 60s or early 70s. NINO's with a Z are usually allocated to foreign citizens.

Mine begins with my middle and surname initials and ends with my first name initial, I assumed it was intentional, I had no idea until this thread that it was just a coincidence.

Also my NI number DOES start with my initials (and I also assumed that was on purpose, maybe it was for a time? Mid, or actually heading to late, 40s here)

No, initials have never been part of the allocation process so if anyone's initials match their NI number it's pure coincidence.

They're allocated in batches and are allocated by year. Your NI number gets allocated to you when you're a child, you just don't get officially notified of it until your 16 except in specific circumstances - I get DLA for two of my children and I know their NI numbers even though they're under 16 as its printed on the DWP letters as their claimant reference number. You can tell roughly when an NI number was issued based on the first two letters, AA and AB numbers tend to be older folks, 1950s and 1960s born are usually WM, WE, WA, etc, 80s are JP, JT, JL, etc. 00s/10s are PA, PN, etc.

@JungleBeats

Can people not read ?

OP I found out via Tick Tock of all things that you shove the plastic parts of a toilet block toilet cleaner up inside the rim and not over the top of it.

I never knew that!

Found out the other day that Huddersfield is a town and not a city! Shocked.

I also spent most of my life thinking the song was Knights in White Satin

@SallyCinnamon3009

Found out the other day that Huddersfield is a town and not a city! Shocked.

I also spent most of my life thinking the song was Knights in White Satin

Ummm what is the song then??

@MyDcAreMarvel

The systems wouldn't have been so computeriesed in the past and may be they did some kind of catch up exercise so it would make sense that they might be done by family with consecutive numbers for siblings your NI number is generated when the parent claims child benefit, there can be no catch up.

That's not true, I didn't know when I posted but have since looked it up and there was a catch up @MyDcAreMarvel

Someone has posted it above. Numbers work like that now but that hasn't always been the case. Computer systems to allow that to happen are a relatively recent invention, it seems the cat ch up occurred in the 1990s

My NI number starts with the letters WM. I always thought it stood for woman and that all females would have these letters too. Turns out I was wrong!

@SallyCinnamon3009

Found out the other day that Huddersfield is a town and not a city! Shocked.

I also spent most of my life thinking the song was Knights in White Satin

You have ruined that song for me. For decades I had a mental picture of knights, mounted on horses, in full body armour, charging with those stick things with long streams of white satin attached to them, so the white satin stream out behind them.

Nights in white satin is just dull

Omg
Poor OP. I'm sure this thread could.have been more interesting .

My NI number is not my initials. My sprogs NI number isn't either.
What annoys me more, is that I can remember my xh number (not his initials) and I haven't been with him for 13 years!

@HappyDaysToCome it's nights in white satin. The guy writes it after his girlfriend bought him some white satin bed sheets.

Spent nearly all my life thinking it was about Knights who wore white satin robes

Mine seems to be a mixture of letters and numbers. Weird, anyone else's like this?

@Ideasplease322 I think it was on Mumsnet i found out! I was the same I always imagined them just plodding along "never reaching the end"

@LittleMissnotLittleMrs

Being driven to Clatterbridge, found out it’s Wirral, not The Wirral!

I'm born and bred and would never miss the The!

I discovered it’s not the law to plant a whole pack of seeds at once. I always thought they went off, so planted them and then threw away 876 tomato seedlings.

I amazed my much younger sister by guessing her NI number before it came. It followed the same pattern as other siblings here, exactly the same but ending 82A for me, 83B for middle, 84C then 85D for youngest. It's weirdly one of the few numbers I can recall from my teens, the main one being the number I was given that I could use free to call home and it would automatically reverse-charge the call. Could only call my home number from it. Does anyone else remember this? It was a BT thing, I'd call from the phonebox outside school and later college!

Now I wonder if it still works, as my parents still have the same number. If ever I could find a phonebox again, no idea where any could be now!

@SallyCinnamon3009

Found out the other day that Huddersfield is a town and not a city! Shocked.

I also spent most of my life thinking the song was Knights in White Satin

I don't get it, why is that shocking?

@Faranth not a coincidence, mine and my two siblings are a, b and c

DP has NI card starting with their initials and thought everyone's did and because mine doesn't i must have changed my name!!!!

It’s about bed sheets?????? My version is much better

When I was younger I thought the PO at the beginning of my postcode stood for POstcode.

Nope, PO is Portsmouth. I didn't live in Portsmouth though, otherwise you'd think I'd have twigged.