Catalogue description Department of Social Security: Registered Files of the Registry 642, Incapacity Policy

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Details of JB 61
Reference: JB 61
Title: Department of Social Security: Registered Files of the Registry 642, Incapacity Policy
Description:

This series includes registered files concerning the section's responsibility for policy matters on Incapacity Benefit, Statutory Sick Pay and residual Severe Disablement Allowance as well as the stewardship of the Personal Capability Assessment.

Date: 1980-2003
Arrangement:

The series is arranged in file reference order (within each transfer).

Related material:

See also:

PIN 52

BN 118

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Prefixes IBD (originally Incapacity Benefit and Disability Review) and PIB (originally Passported Incapacity Benefit)
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-

Physical description: 25 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 1988-2001; Department for Work and Pensions 2001
Accumulation dates: 1988 to 2010
Selection and destruction information: OSP5 5.2.5 - benefits for the disabled.
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Incapacity Policy branches were part of the Working Age Group Change Directorate from 2001 moving to Business Design Directorate in 2003 and to Central and Corporate Services from 2006 prior to closing in 2010.

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