Catalogue description Supplementary Benefits Commission and predecessors: Private Office: Papers

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Reference: AST 31
Title: Supplementary Benefits Commission and predecessors: Private Office: Papers
Description:

This series contains the private office files of the Supplementary Benefits Commission. The papers contain the discussions and policies that relate to the transfer of responsibilities from the National Assistance Board, on its abolition in 1966, to the newly-formed Supplementary Benefits Commission and Ministry of Social Security. Specific reference is made to the new scheme of supplementary benefits which replaced national assistance.

Date: 1934-1974
Arrangement:

Former reference order

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SBC/PO file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Assistance Board, 1940-1948

National Assistance Board, 1948-1966

Supplementary Benefits Commission, 1966-1980

Unemployment Assistance Board, 1934-1940

Physical description: 78 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1999 Department of Social Security

Custodial history: Transferred to the Department of Health and Social Security in 1980 and the Department of Social Security in 1988.
Accruals: No further accruals.

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