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Find out if you've paid enough National Insurance to qualify for the full State Pension - check gaps, contributions and credits, get a National Insurance statement, call the helpline.

Apply for your first National Insurance number - you must have the right to live and work in the UK.

• Who can apply for a National Insurance number

  You can apply for a National Insurance number if you: live in the UK have…

• How to apply

  To get a National Insurance number you need to apply online. You’ll need…

Information on how to find your National Insurance number and how to get a letter with your National Insurance number on.

National Insurance - your National Insurance number, how much you pay, National Insurance rates and classes, check your contributions record.

Guidance for National Insurance. Including how to apply for a National Insurance number and check your record. As well as rates, paying, refunds, voluntary contributions and pensions.

• Updated: 8 February 2024

Class 1 National Insurance (NI) contribution rates for the current tax year, what NI category letters mean.

NCS works with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport .

• Updated: 14 February 2023

National Insurance contributions you can choose to pay when you have a gap in your National Insurance record.

The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to 19th centuries. It cares for the collection, enhancing it for future generations, primarily by acquisition, and also studies it whilst encouraging access to the pictures...

• Updated: 14 February 2023

The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests