Everyone with a National Insurance number has been issued a warning from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
All UK residents are sent a National Insurance number automatically just before their 16th birthday if their parents or guardians are receiving Child Benefit for their care. This number helps identify you on Government systems, including HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and the DWP.
And now the Government department is urging people not to part with sensitive details that could see them at risk of losing significant sums of money. In June 2021, a spate of scams involving NI numbers swept across the country, resulting in tens of thousands of incidents being reported to Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime.
