Catalogue description Ministry of Pensions and successors: War Pensions Policy, Registered Files (WPP Series)

This series contains files of the Ministry of Pensions and successors relating to many different aspects of policy on the award and administration of pensions and allowances to men and women injured while on war service, and to the dependents of the killed and injured.

The earliest files of the Ministry of Pensions were registered in a GEN series held at the Norcross headquarters office near Blackpool. Many of these papers were also subsequently registered or copied in the WPM and WPP series. The two series were opened in 1963, when war pensions work had moved to London.

Department of Health and Social Security, War Pensions and Industrial Injuries Division, 1971-1973

Department of Health and Social Security, War Pensions Department, 1968-1971

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, War Pensions Branch, 1953-1966

Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division, 1917-1944

Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division, 1951-1952

Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division (Blackpool), 1949-1951

Ministry of Pensions, General Administration Division, 1917-1944

Ministry of Pensions, General Division, 1944-1949

Ministry of Pensions, Great War, Civilian and Mercantile Awards Division, 1944-1949

Ministry of Pensions, New Services Awards Division, 1944-1949

Ministry of Pensions, Pensions Division, Awards, 1952-1953

Ministry of Pensions, Pensions Policy and General Division, 1949-1953

Ministry of Pensions, Rehabilitation and Welfare and London Awards Division, 1949-1951

Ministry of Social Security, War Pensions Department, 1966-1968

From 1982 Department of Health and Social Security