National insurance record?
I'm having a debate with a friend over the following question. Hope someone knows the answer. Many thanks.
Do employers have access to one's national insurance payment/tax payment record once you give them your NI number?
Answers:
No they do not have access, and why should they.
The only people that have access to your records is the Revenue.
Even then people in the Revenue who have the facility to look at your records have to have a valid reason for doing so.
Even the police do not have an automatic right to look at your reords, however, they can apply to a court for a warrant to look at the records, then it would be released.
Other government departments may have access but again they should have a valid reason for doing so. If people are caught looking at records without justification can be sacked. We are not even allowed to look at our own records, or that of our family. Again punished by dissmissal, and I have witnessed that happening.
We in the Revenue can be punished, ultimately sacked, if we go around accessing peoples records without just justification for doing so.
No ...they only use your details for the purpose of tax and pay etc and nothing else.
They are only allowed your records if you give them permission
Data Protection Act 1998
No. Basically the only info on your a/c they would have would be from the date you started working for them. All other data is confidential.
National Insurance Contributions are kept on a national database called NIRS (National Insurance Records System). Employers do not have access to this. As far as I know, Jobcentres and Tax Offices have access to it, probably in addition to the Police. Tax Offices have records of tax, which again, employers will not have access to. They could make requests to gain information but probably wouldn't get permission. Employers will only be given information about Tax and National Insurance for the current tax year that they are paying your salary for. I used to work for a Jobcentre and we regularly received computer printouts for people who had paid more than 52 weeks National Insurance. That usually indicated that they had been working in addition to claiming benefits. Also, if someone had forgotten their National Insurance Number, we could find out by going onto the NIRS system. However, ad-hoc checks were made on these checks and you would be called in to see the Manager, to explain why you had completed a check. If you could not justify it, you could be sacked. Therefore, I think it is highly unlikely that employers would be able to request such a check. Hope this helps!
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