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NI Insurance Number?

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  • 21-11-2011 8:27pm
    #1
    student89
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭


    Hi all just started work in Northern Ireland and i need a national insurance number.

    i have a number to ring up about it but just wondering how long it takes to get a number and what details you need? and as im working 9 to 6, it says on the website you need an appointment which lasts an hour long, how can i do this when ill be working?

    Thanks:)


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    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,143 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Ask your employer for the time off. Considering you need the number to work they should be accommodating.

    The hour may include waiting time, I can't remember exactly though. I got one a few years ago and the interview certainly didn't last an hour.


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    student89
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭student89


    were doing training now for 2weeks so we cant have time off unless were sick etc.

    are they open on a saturday do you know?

    Thanks


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    Our man in Havana
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    I doubt it. It is the civil service you are dealing with.


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    student89
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭student89


    true, ill try get the application in anyway and see if can get the interview after training.

    will my tax be high if i dont have a ni number by then? ill be getting paid on the 12-12-11

    thanks


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    Our man in Havana
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    They will assign you a temp number and tax you on an emergency basis until you get sorted.


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    student89
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭student89


    whats the emergency tax like in the north? the pay is around 440stg every 2weeks, just hope dont get hundreds taken off me. :eek:

    Thanks


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    Our man in Havana
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    http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/emergency-code.htm


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    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    To call it an ' interview ' is perhaps stretching things - the main thing about this meeting is ID , bring all the photo ID you have - preferably Passport and Driving Licence.
    The interview is all part of anti-fraud measures and something our own Social Welfare should ( but of course don't ) do.


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    Miss Olenska
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    Deleted.


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    Our man in Havana
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    That is a commercial site that charges you for something that is really free.


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    pakb1ue
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    I was working 7 or so weeks before I applied as I was training for the first 6 weeks, I didnt get any emergency tax just had a temp NI number and then asked them to assign my contributions using the temp NI number to my new NI number.

    Interview does take roughly an hour but as already said that does include waiting around.


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    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    That is a commercial site that charges you for something that is really free.

    Oops, sorry, will edit! :)


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