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National Insurance

Payments taken from earnings that help fund state benefits and the state pension. Almost everyone who works in the UK pays National Insurance contributions and needs a National Insurance number.

Where it appears in the handbook: Chapter 5Fundamental Principles: Rights and Equality

This term can appear in the real test. Practise questions that use it:

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National Insurance — meaning in the Life in the UK Test · iKnowTheUK