Now, in the age of information technology and improving interaction between people and various structures through digitized data, many still do not know what SNILS is. This document is more important than it seems and is an insurance certificate with an individual number - an account assigned to a specific person.
Only with its presence does a number of opportunities open up that a person needs for a full existence in society: when finding a job, receiving benefits and allowances, and forming a pension. In the future, it is planned that this document will include an expanded list of information, combined into one document and necessary for every citizen of the Russian Federation.
How and where can I find out my SNILS number?
The personal account number of an insurance pension certificate is a set of numbers that is assigned once and assigned to a person forever. It never changes, regardless of whether the paper copy issued earlier was lost or damaged.
At the moment, the assignment of SNILS is regulated by Federal Law No. 48 of April 24, 2019. In accordance with it, the issuance of a green plastic card with an insurance number has been cancelled. Now the document is issued exclusively in electronic form. Citizens can only receive notification of registration in the pension insurance system. Previously received cards are valid on par with the online version, but if they are lost or damaged, replacement is no longer required.
If you do not have such a notice on hand and there is no old-style paper copy, you can find out the number by contacting the Pension Fund of Russia branch. This method is official, since the certificate number is linked to the client’s account to which the funds are received, and the information, according to clause 5 of Article 7 No. 27-FZ, is confidential.
According to passport data
To obtain information, you must contact the Pension Fund branch directly at your place of residence, having a passport or other identification document. All SNILS information of an individual is contained only in the pension fund database, and the procedure for providing an account takes only a few minutes, is not subject to disclosure and can be documented both in writing and orally.
SNILS of the child according to the birth certificate
If you need to find out the number of the child’s insurance certificate, you should also contact the branch of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, providing the passport of one of the parents and a birth certificate. The presence of the child during this process is not necessary, since the adult bears full responsibility for him and the information provided about him.
Find out SNILS via the Internet
According to personal data (last name, first name and patronymic)
It is impossible to find out information simply by last name, first name, patronymic. Employees of the PF branch will definitely require you to present an identification document of the citizen. This is required by the legally guaranteed confidentiality of information about registration in the pension insurance system. If you change your name, the insurance certificate number will not change, but you cannot obtain data from the new documents. In this case, you must replace the old certificate with a new one within 30 days after the change in personal data.
SNILS number of an individual according to TIN
Many people try to use the TIN as a document identifying a person as an individual. In this case, you should know that SNILS and TIN are not connected in any way.
If the first is an account for accruing and forming savings, then the second is the taxpayer code. The structures that deal with them are completely different, although they interact with each other. As a result, it is neither possible to determine the SNILS number of an individual using the TIN nor to obtain it from the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, just as tax organizations do not provide the account number and insurance certificate data using the TIN.
When a third party applies to the Pension Fund for the provision of a SNILS number, it is necessary to have a power of attorney from the owner, certified by a notary.
How to find out SNILS by TIN
You can obtain information about the insurance certificate number using just your passport; you do not need a TIN. The Tax Inspectorate does not have access to the PF website. But the Internet is replete with offers to find the SNILS number by taxpayer number.
Important!
The Pension Fund does not provide access to the database of third-party resources. Therefore, you should not use dubious services. Moreover, it is not recommended to enter your data on scam sites; this data can be used against you.
Situations of obtaining personal information of citizens through illegal means are increasingly occurring. The most popular among scammers are SNILS data and identification documents of a citizen of the Russian Federation. The fact is that it is this information that will enable NPF employees to transfer a citizen’s pension savings to their fund through fraud. The person himself can only find out about this from a written notification from the organization involved in the fraud. This is why you should take providing your data to anyone very seriously, because your future pension depends on it.
Is it possible to find out SNILS via the Internet?
You can officially find out SNILS through Internet resources only if you have registered on the website gosuslugi.ru. This portal opens up a number of useful opportunities for citizens of the country (for example, you can find out information about fines online or order a certificate of no criminal record). Therefore, you should definitely pay attention to the issue of registering on this site once.
Information about the insurance number through State Services
To find out your SNILS at State Services, you need to:
- Log into the portal to your personal account and then open the main page.
- Find the section “Extended notification of the status of an individual account.”
- Click the “Get service” button.
The request is processed in 1-2 minutes, after which it issues a notification displaying individual information: full name, SNILS, receipts and savings, stored in the “My Orders” menu section.
Data on SNILS on the portal of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation
Recently, you can also find out the insurance certificate number in a citizen’s personal account on the official website of the Russian Pension Fund. It is important to remember the conditions for its use mentioned above. To register in the system, a verified account on State Services is required.
To find out SNILS on the Pension Fund website, you need:
- Log in to your personal account.
- Select the “Individual personal account” section.
- Leave an application in the form to receive an electronic notification of registration in the PF insurance system, in which the SNILS number will be displayed.
other methods
The Internet also contains illegal databases located on fly-by-night websites that are constantly blocked by the relevant authorities.
Data obtained through their use may not only be unreliable, but also contain hacker programs that collect personal data for further use for criminal purposes.
In this case, it would be wrong not to mention this method, since it happily exists on the Internet.
How to find out SNILS from your passport
It is very easy to obtain these SNILS numbers using the main document that confirms the identity of a citizen of the Russian Federation. You should contact the territorial branch of the Pension Fund with a Russian passport and Pension Fund employees will provide information about your document. Therefore, all sites that write that you can find out SNILS by passport online act against the policy of the Pension Fund, and are very likely scammers.
At the same time, it is very important not to forget that all information about SNILS can only be obtained by the citizen himself; the data will not be provided to other persons.
Is it possible to provide SNILS data?
Of course, there are options that require submitting this document to the relevant structures and organizations. For example, to social protection of the population for registration of benefits or to an enterprise for employment. In the latter case, the employer makes contributions to the pension fund for the employee, so this document is necessary, and a copy of it is kept in the personal file. In case of loss or damage to SNILS, a notification with the number must be provided to the personnel department at the citizen’s place of work.
Understanding that SNILS data is confidential information, each owner may wonder what he risks if his number ends up in the hands of scammers.
It should be said right away that the insurance certificate number is not an identity document. Therefore, it is not enough to get a loan for him or to somehow influence his financial situation.
Fraudsters can redirect only those savings available in this pension account to various non-state funds to increase them. But in order to pull off such a scam, it is not enough to know only the card number; it is necessary to convince its owner to transfer money to a non-state structure, after which the person who did this will receive a reward from the transaction.
Since the beginning of the division (2002) of a pension account into a basic and funded part and the possibility of increasing funds in various ways, cases of fraud have become more frequent by obtaining clients for non-state pension funds through mass manipulation and misinformation of people about the procedure for forming the funded part of the pension and going through certain procedures. The worst thing is that in this case, recruitment agencies are formed to recruit employees, forcing citizens to take these actions and not suspecting that they are deceiving them.
It is important to know that Pension Fund employees do not organize home-based meetings or personal work with citizens regarding the registration and distribution of pensions. This is not included in the list of their responsibilities!
Now we can say with confidence that the SNILS number should be used only for its intended purpose, provide information only to trusted structures and organizations, and not sign any suspicious papers about transferring your pension to unknown funds.
SNILS for a child
Teenagers who are 14 years old have the right to independently apply for SNILS registration. They can also restore it.
Children under 14 years of age do not have the right to sign documents; therefore, when registering, their legal representatives (parents, guardians) sign for them. One of the parents must present a passport or other identification document, as well as a document allowing the child to be represented in a government agency.
Parents of children attending kindergartens or secondary schools are allowed to request SNILS through these institutions. To do this, you only need to collect the appropriate package of papers.
Check SNILS on the Internet for validity.
SNILS is as important a citizen’s document as a passport, driver’s license, TIN or bank card. When it was drawn up in paper format, the document could be forged or damaged.
At the moment, this is almost impossible to do, because the original is electronically registered in the securely protected data system of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. But while paper copies of cards remain in use, the question of how to verify their authenticity is still relevant. There are several ways to check the authenticity of a certificate or paper notification of SNILS registration:
- Contact the PFR or NPF office, write an application and provide your passport and SNILS. If the State Pension Institution provides data free of charge, non-state funds charge a fee, considering that this service is not the main one.
- Apply the algorithm for determining the control number by using the last 2 digits in the SNILS number, which is described in detail on the Pension Fund website. PF employees resort to this method, and it is not always suitable for ordinary users, since not all numbers can be calculated.
- Take advantage of Internet resources. It would be better if these were the official websites of the Pension Fund (pfrf.ru) and State Services.
In order to determine the validity of a certificate through government services, you must go through a certain procedure: register and log in to your personal account. To register, you may need a passport and SNILS, which should be kept at hand. Then find the “Pension savings” tab and select the “Get information about account status” menu item.
After this, a page will open with your full name, SNILS, with the savings currently formed and an indication of the place where they are sent for storage, that is, to which non-state structure, if any.
As for checking SNILS through other sites, this can be done on any resource, for example the social insurance site portal.fss.ru/fss/lgot/snils, which provides. It is enough to enter the numbers in the required fields and a message will be displayed with the correct or incorrect result. The services also provide a calculator for calculating the check number using the first 9 digits of the SNILS number.
Again, you should be careful with third-party resources, since cases of fraud may also involve the formation of such sites that use the data for their own purposes.
