Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Insurance Department C and successors: Reciprocal Agreements, Registered Files (RA, RA(X), EEC, ECQ, IIA, IIF, IIG, IIK, IIS, IIT and OVK series)

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Reference: PIN 34
Title: Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Insurance Department C and successors: Reciprocal Agreements, Registered Files (RA, RA(X), EEC, ECQ, IIA, IIF, IIG, IIK, IIS, IIT and OVK series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Ministry of National Insurance Insurance Department C and successors relating to the conclusion and implementation of reciprocal agreements with countries overseas for the exchange of National Insurance Benefits.

The benefits relate to payments in respect of interruption of employment by reason of unemployment, sickness, confinements, widowhood and orphans, old age and death grants.

Also included are papers relating to matters of interpretation covering the payment of National Insurance contributions by aliens working in the United Kingdom. The International Labour Organization is one of the international organisations whose papers appear in this series.

The majority of files in this series concern policy. The RA series (Reciprocal Agreements) refers to non-EEC countries and the EEC series to countries in the European Economic Community. The balance are Reciprocal Agreements Case files (RA(X) series) for reciprocal agreements with non-EEC countries.

Date: 1943-2017
Related material:

For files on costs under the social security scheme for migrant workers, and the possible implications of entry into the EEC on all aspects of the medical professions see MH 142

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: RA, RA(X), EEC, ECQ, IIA, IIF, IIG, IIK, IIS, IIT and OVK file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Miscellaneous
Creator:

Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-

Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department A, 1968-1969

Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division A, 1969-1988

Department of Health and Social Security, International Relations Division, 1971-1986

Department of Social Security, 1988-2001

Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953

Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department C, 1948-1953

Ministry of Pensions, 1916-1953

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department C, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department A, 1966-1968

Physical description: 2005 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1978 Department of Health and Social Security

Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Upon the creation of the Ministry of Social Security in 1968, the branches responsible for reciprocal agreements between overseas countries and related pension policies on overseas matters were transferred from Insurance Department C to Insurance Department A.

In 1971, the responsible branches were reformed into the International Relations Division, which was later transferred to the Administration and Social Security Policy Group. In 1986 its status as a Division was downgraded to Branch level, and responsibilities for overseas matters (social security) were transferred to other areas of the department.

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