Catalogue description Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Newcastle Central Office: Registered Files: Records Branch (RB Series)

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Reference: PIN 78
Title: Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Newcastle Central Office: Registered Files: Records Branch (RB Series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Records Branch (later Division) of the Ministry of National Insurance and successors, Newcastle Central Office. The files deal with procedures and methods of operation for maintaining records of all contributors to national insurance schemes.
Date: 1948-1973
Related material:

For later records concerning National Insurance contributions see Records of the Contributions Agency: LX
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: RB file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 5 file(s)
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Records Branch of the Newcastle Central Office formed part of Division A, and maintained a separate ledger account for every insured contributor, with details of all contributions paid by or in respect of him or her. The branch provided an information service to the ministry's local and regional offices on the state of any account and the consequential level of entitlement to benefit.

From 1961, when graduated national insurance contributions were introduced, computerised methods of recording them were instituted, while traditional clerical records continued for the flat rate contributions. In 1975 when national insurance contributions became wholly earnings related, clerical methods made way entirely for the use of computerised means.

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