What does Sozialversicherungsnummer mean?
Sozialversicherungsnummer (social insurance number) is your number at the Rentenversicherung. It stays the same all your life.
die Sozialversicherungsnummer · die Sozialversicherungsnummern (plural)
It has twelve characters: eleven digits and one letter. It is also called the pension insurance number.
Your employer needs it to register you. It is on your social insurance card and often on your Lohnabrechnung.
It is not the same number as the Steuer-ID or the number of your Krankenkasse.
Example sentence
Bitte geben Sie Ihre Sozialversicherungsnummer an, damit wir Sie anmelden können.
Please give your Sozialversicherungsnummer so that we can register you.
What you can do
If you do not have a number yet, ask your Krankenkasse or the Rentenversicherung. You will get the number by post.
Related words
- Rentenversicherung The Rentenversicherung (pension insurance) pays pensions, for example in old age or if illness stops you from working.
- Lohnabrechnung The Lohnabrechnung (payslip) shows how much you earned in the month and what was deducted from it.
- Steuer-ID The Steuer-ID (tax ID) is your personal number for taxes in Germany. It has eleven digits and stays the same for life.
- Krankenkasse The Krankenkasse is your statutory health insurance. It pays for doctors, hospitals and many medicines.
- Arbeitsvertrag The Arbeitsvertrag (employment contract) sets out your work: what you do, how much you work and how much you earn.