The abbreviation SNILS, introduced into everyday life, is not always and not everyone understands. Everyone knows about pension insurance (as this document is called in everyday life), but they are used to treating it as something not really needed. Meanwhile, situations often arise when an individual account number is simply necessary. And then the question arises before the person: how can one recognize SNILS?
What is the SNILS number?
SNILS - insurance number of an individual personal account - a document personifying a citizen in the pension and social insurance system. Currently, it is one of the main necessary documents of a citizen of the Russian Federation, along with a passport, policy and TIN. Without it, it is impossible to get a job, apply for a pension and even get medical services in state clinics. In the future, it is even planned that SNILS will replace both the insurance policy and TIN. In addition, the SNILS number may be needed when registering for public services. This is a rather convenient portal for paying for utilities, for ordering a foreign passport and TIN, obtaining information about the necessary services and much more. Moreover, registration on the portal requires the introduction of an individual account number. Seeing an incomprehensible and not yet quite familiar concept, people often start to panic, believing that these are the next state bureaucratic "troubles" whose purpose is to once again confuse citizens. Meanwhile, it is not at all difficult to recognize SNILS. It is contained on the insurance certificate of compulsory pension insurance - this is the same green plastic card, the size of 11 by 8 cm, which most dusts as unnecessary in the documents. On the front turnover it contains personal information and the notorious number, which looks like the following sample: No. 181-174-261 11, where the first numbers divided into triples are the account number, and the last two are the control number.
Find out your own SNILS number
Now it becomes clear that in order to find out your SNILS, you just need to find a pension insurance. Of course, if this document was previously received. Since 2011, SNILS has been issued to children from birth, or rather, a month later, after receiving a birth certificate. For children born before the specified year, you can get SNILS by contacting the Pension Fund Department with the original birth certificate.
Adults can get SNILS on their own, also at the Pension Fund, where they must first fill out a special form. In one to two weeks, the certificate will be ready. When contacting the fund, do not forget your passport. In addition, SNILS can also be obtained at the place of work: the deadlines may drag out, but you will not need to go anywhere: you will fill out the questionnaire directly in the personnel department.
However, there are cases when the SNILS has already been received, but is either lost, or handed over for re-issuance (when changing personal data), or is needed, as they say, here and now, but is not at hand. How to learn SNILS in this case?
Immediately make a reservation that, fortunately or unfortunately, it is impossible to look at a number in some database via the Internet. Because this information is personal and cannot be made publicly available - this would be tantamount to publishing a person’s passport data on the network. And yet there are several ways to get the number you need:
- SNILS is contained in letters from the pension fund. Everyone receives this at the end of the year with a report on retirement savings.
- If you work, you can find out the number of the pension certificate from the employer, since SNILS is a mandatory document when applying for a job.
- If you have worked before, but are now fired, and the work book is in your hands, check its cover - SNILS and TIN numbers are often written there in HR departments.
- If it happened that you lost SNILS, you can find out it (and order a duplicate) in the Pension Fund. You can do the same if the insurance certificate is being reissued (for example, when changing your name) or out of reach (for example, if you study or work in another city and do not carry documents with you).
How to find out someone else's SNILS number?
The accounting and human resources department need an insurance account number to submit various reports. If an employee has already received a certificate, but has not yet managed to provide it to the employer, and the number does not appear on the back of the work book, SNILS will be available upon formal request to the Pension Fund. You can do it by mail by sending a letter registered in the journal of correspondence (preferably registered), indicating the position of the employee, the duration of his work, passport data and TIN. If you are in a good relationship with a pension fund inspector, you can try to find out the number by phone or in person, but this method is officially prohibited, since it involves access to the personal information of the employee.
In all other cases, it is impossible to find out someone else's pension insurance number.
Thus, it will not be possible to recognize SNILS in some unified database of insurance numbers. You must look for either a pension certificate, or your number, which is stored in various documents (labor, a letter from the pension), or make a request directly to the pension fund.