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

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Reference: PIN 55
Title: Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Overlapping Benefits, Registered Files, (DOB Series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors relating to overlapping and anomalous payments of national insurance benefits, and reciprocal arrangements with other countries.

Date: 1946-1997
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: DOB file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968

Physical description: 206 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1981 Department of Health and Social Security

Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Regulations under the National Insurance Act 1946, provided for adjustment to benefit payable to, or in respect of, any person in receipt of a pension or allowance (other than family allowances) from public funds or undergoing medical or other treatment as a hospital in-patient. Payment of sickness benefit was suspended when a recipient was undergoing treatment as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution.

Amendments have been made to the regulations at various times to account for anomalies arising from changes in social circumstances, such as dependent children over school age, married women in full time employment, divorce and cohabitation, and from reciprocal agreements with other countries.

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