Is it possible to derive at a year of birth from a National Insurance Number?

[MrsBigD]

Here's the deal, somehow we have an employee who managed to avoid telling us his birthday since he started working for us a few years back. Never seemed to be an issue as he had a valid NI number. However now for some legal reason we need to work out how old he is but have no idea as he's not forthcoming with the info.

I saw him this morning and he could be anything from late 40's to late 50's.

Thanks for any help you can render :)

Has he got an unusual name?

not really... he's Irish though

Ah, that scuppers my idea of looking through BMD

we is an unusual one.
which would make sense if he's irish-it will have been issued later, and will be a non sequential one.

People with NI numbers beginning with Y were born in the 50's

W numbers are from late 50s/ early 60s.

N started from 1962/1963 (school year.)

Just read alexmum's thread. WE isn't unusual..

I work for HMRC & could check to see when 'WE' spans from but I'm not at work till Thursday. I'm thinking it's around 1957/8 from memory. If he's not a British national it could be out a few years dependent on when he was allocated number. Could you not ask for his driving licence for some reason? DOB is really easy from that.

my sister who is 5 years older than me national insurance number is exactly the same as mine apart from her last letter is C and mine is D. However we have got a truly unusual surname.. I thought it was done like that..Dh national insurance number is not even remotly the same and we were born in the same year.

looks like it's pretty random then... ah well he's gone now anyhow so the bosses can sort it out themselves.

Thanks for all your input

Laughinglil were you born in the UK?

laughinglil, I have that with my brother too, he's four years younger than me and has same NI number except mine ends b and his ends c.
It must be a family thing.