Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Insurance Department C: Determination of Contributions, Registered Files (CO Series)

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Reference: PIN 54
Title: Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Insurance Department C: Determination of Contributions, Registered Files (CO Series)
Description:

This series contains sampled files from the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors relating to cases referred to the responsible minister for a decision on questions affecting the payment of national insurance contributions, credits for persons not liable to pay contributions, and eligibility for benefit under the various National Insurance Acts.

There is also material of the establishment of reciprocal arrangements with other countries.
Date: 1946-1986
Related material:

For later records concerning National Insurance contributions see Records of the Contributions Agency: LX
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

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

Ministry of Health, 1919-1968

Ministry of National Insurance, Administrative Divisions, 1944-1948

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

Ministry of National Insurance, Unemployment Insurance Division, 1944-1948

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

Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department C, 1966-1969
Physical description: 111 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1981 Department of Health and Social Security
Accruals: No further accruals are anticipated
Administrative / biographical background:

The National Insurance Act 1946 provided that from the appointed day, 5th July 1948, every person (with the exception of married women, for whom special provision was made) over school leaving age and under pensionable age in Great Britain, and fulfilling residence conditions prescribed by regulations, was compulsorily insured under the Act.

Insured persons were to be divided into three classes: Class I, employed persons; Class II, self-employed persons; Class III, non-employed persons.

The Act provided that in order to establish a source of funds the insured person, together with his employer, should make contributions with additional contributions from the Exchequer. Under certain circumstances, insured persons were not liable for contributions and could obtain credits. Under s.5 of the Act exemptions and credits could be made inter alia for periods of unemployment or incapacity for work, full-time education, full-time unpaid apprenticeship or where income was deemed not to exceed £104 per annum.

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