Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Maternity Benefits, Registered Files (MB Series)

This series contains files of the Ministry of National Insurance and it's successors relating to the policy and procedure of the payment of maternity benefits under the National Insurance Act 1946.

The files deal also with some of the Regulations made under the Act between 1948 and 1953, including the National Insurance (Maternity Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1949, the National Insurance (Maternity Benefit) (Transitional) Regulations 1953 and the National Insurance (Maternity Benefit and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1953, and contain proposals for amendments to the Act.

The series also contains papers relating to the home confinement grant, information on the times for claiming maternity benefits, revision of medical certificate regulations, the definition of a confinement and treatment of polygamous marriages for maternity benefit purposes.

Also included are submissions to the National Insurance Advisory Committee (NIAC) and recommendations from local advisory committees.

Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Department of Social Security, 1988-2001

Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968

From 1980 Department of Health and Social Security