National Insurance Number on my BRP?

I've recently landed here in Scotland and picked up my BRP upon arrival. I'm looking into National Insurance Numbers and what I see online is that I may have been assigned a number and it may be on the back of my BRP.

I've got three lines of numbers/letters on the back:

• A 15 digit letter/number combo
• An 18 digit letter/number combo that looks to start with my birthdate in YY/MM/DD format and ending in USA
• My full name

Is the 2nd line my National Insurance Number?

I also saw online that there might be information on my BRP about what public services I have access to, but the only thing I see on my BRP is "Remarks: NO PUBLIC FUNDS". What exactly does this mean?

For reference, I am here on a spousal visa, I am permitted to work, and I paid my IHS fee when I applied for the visa initially.

National Insurance numbers are not issued for spousal visas, so neither of those numbers is an NI number (NI numbers are 2 letters, 6 numbers, 1 letter).

NI numbers are only issued with the BRP if you have  a Tier 2 sponsored work visa.

So, if you will be working in the U.K., you will need to apply for an NI number yourself:
https://www.gov.uk/apply-national-insurance-number


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Ok thanks ksand24.

Do you know about the second question?

I also saw online that there might be information on my BRP about what public services I have access to, but the only thing I see on my BRP is "Remarks: NO PUBLIC FUNDS". What exactly does this mean?

The No Public Funds part means you can’t claim any of the public funds listed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-funds--2/public-funds

From that link, public funds you cannot claim are:
- income-based jobseeker’s allowance
- income support
- child tax credit
- universal credit
- working tax credit
- a social fund payment
- child benefit
- housing benefit
- council tax benefit
- council tax reduction
- domestic rate relief (Northern Ireland)
- state pension credit
- attendance allowance
- severe disablement allowance
- personal independence payment
- carer’s allowance
- disability living allowance
- an allocation of local authority housing
- local authority homelessness assistance

However you can claim the following as they are not public funds but are based on National Insurance contributions:
- contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance
- incapacity benefit
- retirement pension
- widow’s benefit and bereavement benefit
- guardian’s allowance
- statutory maternity pay


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