Catalogue description Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Appointments to the National Assistance Board, National Assistance Appeals Tribunals and the Supplementary Benefits Commission: Registered Files (NA Series)

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Reference: PIN 73
Title: Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Appointments to the National Assistance Board, National Assistance Appeals Tribunals and the Supplementary Benefits Commission: Registered Files (NA Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Ministry of Social Security and Department of Health and Social Security relating to appointments to the National Assistance Board, National Assistance Appeals Tribunals and Supplementary Benefits Commission.

Some papers in this series pre-date the creation of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance (MPNI). They were created in the Unemployment Insurance Division of the Ministry of Labour and subsequently re-registered by the MPNI as part of the NA series of registered files.

The NA file series continued to be used by the Ministry of Social Security and its successor body, the Department of Health and Social Security.
Date: 1934-1976
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: NA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988

Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966

Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968
Physical description: 29 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Under the terms of the National Assistance Act 1948, appointments to the National Assistance Board were made by the sovereign on the recommendation of the Prime Minister (who was advised in this by the Minister of National Insurance)

The Minister of National Insurance appointed the chairman and one of the two members of each National Assistance appeal tribunal, the other member being appointed by the National Assistance Board from a panel of persons nominated by the minister to represent work people's interests.

The National Assistance Board was abolished in 1966 on the creation of the Ministry of Social Security, and was replaced by the Supplementary Benefits Commission.

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