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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?!

My sister worked for the DHSS for a while many years ago and we discovered that her NI number is technically the one issued immediately before mine. Which would make sense as we're twins, but stops making sense when you know I'm the older twin and my name would come before hers in the alphabet.

It isn’t the area affected by rain. That was an incorrect theory put out by scarlet Moffat on a tiktik video which the met office have confirmed as completely wrong.

I saw that toilet from tik tok thing Twitter advising not to do it as it expense thing to get repaired when it ends up getting flushed & blocked

@TheOrigRights

How come so many of you know your siblings' NI numbers? I don't know my own off by heart.

I'm glad someone else said this. I thought I was the weirs one. Don't know mine my DP's or siblings, or parents off bu heart. But I'm definitely going to ask for everybody's number now to see if there are any similar ones.

A quick look on multiple toilet rim block manufacturers' websites tells me that the tiktok thing is utter bollocks.

@Hidehi4

I have just found out that the percentage on weather apps is the amount of area that will have rain, not the percentage of chance of rain 🙈

No way! Didn't know that either

I was today years old when I found out those letters aren’t your initials! Mine starts with mine too 😱

Mine and my sisters NI numbers are the same but I'm 13B at the end and she is 14C

@Hidehi4

I have just found out that the percentage on weather apps is the amount of area that will have rain, not the percentage of chance of rain 🙈

Whhhaaaaaaaaaat????!!!

Born 2 years apart aswell

@Horizons83 you can't chuck a bomb like that and then not tell us what it means!

I can't tell you how pumped I am to be seeing my brother tomorrow so that I can ask what his NI number is.

(except mine ends 00 A, we fit the '93 criteria but I'm the younger sibling... is he even my brother??)

Well I was going to answer the ops question but I think instead I'll just tell you all my NI number ends with D

I found out it was a coincidence because I saw DPs this afternoon and even more bizarre it started with his first initial but had different second initial so I wondered it he had a random middle name he’d kept quiet about!

My NI number starts with YP - for years I thought it meant Young Person. I’m ancient now so I obviously got that 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

Oh heck, me too!

The weather App wrong can't be right.
Mine both say "Chance of precipitation", not area affected.

@BlatantlyNameChanged

When the NI system was computerised, all the records were held on 4 sets of storage discs. They were labelled A, B, C, D. That's why NI numbers end in A, B, C or D.

Nice story but no. NI contributions used to be marked by stamps in a book, each employee had their own book and this is why NI contributions are still referred to as stamps (i.e., "claiming Child Benefit means you'll still get your stamp even if you're a SAHM"). Employers had to submit the books to the Inland Revenue on a quarterly basis and the letter at the end of a NINo indicated which quarter of the tax year that particular employee's record had to be sent (A was first quarter, B was the second quarter, etc).

I've got A but am a November baby so that doesn't work either.

I know the official NI answers but if I shared then I would have to kill you. It is quite funny seeing all the random theories :-)

@anastasiakrupnik

I can't tell you how pumped I am to be seeing my brother tomorrow so that I can ask what his NI number is.

(except mine ends 00 A, we fit the '93 criteria but I'm the younger sibling... is he even my brother??)

It could be because your parents/guardians didn’t claim child benefit for him but did for you.

Or…he could actually not be your brother. Where’s Jeremy Kyle and his DNA tests when you need him

*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"
? Born early 60's, mine starts with WL?
so tempted to open a payroll spreadsheet and start looking for DOB/NI links! & patterns.

@Babysharkdoodoodood

My NI number is only numbers apart from a letter at the end?

@Babysharkdoodoodood

If you’re in the uk you will have two letters at the beginning ie

NS 677678 B

I've got A but am a November baby so that doesn't work either.

I was thinking that it might be related to the quarter in which your birth was registered (so a November birth could be recorded in Q1 the following year), but my letter doesn’t relate to my birth register quarter.

So maybe not related to your month of birth but just a random allocation for the quarter your employer would have file returns?

But that assumes that Q1 could be an A if Q1 runs Jan to March, but HMRC likes April to be the beginning of the tax year so who knows.

@JudgeJ 👍 my post was partly in jest to nudge the thread back on track from the general misunderstanding of the OPs post, obviously too basic for you 😉