Catalogue description Department of Social Security: Registered files: Policy files on Unemployment Benefit and Job Seekers Allowance

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Reference: JB 59
Title: Department of Social Security: Registered files: Policy files on Unemployment Benefit and Job Seekers Allowance
Description:

This series contains files on the policy work for Unemployment Benefit, including the changes in the rules for the unemployed, incentives to work and the introduction of Jobs Seekers Allowance.

Date: 1983-2003
Arrangement:

The series is arranged in file reference order.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: JSA, UBP, ADT, IDZ, PGI, WRI, RHS
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Department of Social Security, 1988-2001

Physical description: 744 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2017 Department for Work and Pensions

Custodial history: Department of Social Security; then Department for Work and Pensions.
Accumulation dates: 1989 to 2000
Selection and destruction information: OSP5 5.2.6
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

This series contains files on the policy work for Unemployment Benefit, including the changes in the rules for the unemployed, incentives to work and the introduction of Jobs Seekers Allowance. Originating under the Department of Health and social security, it was later inherited by the Department of Work and Pensions in 2001.

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