Catalogue description National Assistance Board and successors: Administration of Assistance Schemes and Occupational Pensions, Registered files (PRE Series)

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Reference: AST 43
Title: National Assistance Board and successors: Administration of Assistance Schemes and Occupational Pensions, Registered files (PRE Series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Unemployment Assistance Board and its successors illustrating the range of duties and responsibilities imposed under the 1934 Unemployment Assistance Act and extended under subsequent legislation.

The files deal extensively with occupational pensions - the feasibility of establishing transferability and preservation of pension rights as already existing in other European countries. The files also look at how this affects/restricts mobility of labour especially amongst more senior members.

Date: 1961-1980
Related material:

Related files in:

DHSS Insurance files BN 92

National Superannuation and Social Insurance Bill Subseries within BN 88

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

National Assistance Board, 1948-1966

Resettlement Agency, 1989-1996

Supplementary Benefits Commission, 1966-1980

Physical description: 107 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2002 Department for Work and Pensions

Accumulation dates: Series ran 1963-1974
Selection and destruction information: Records selected as containing the development and consideration of various occupational pensions schemes and showing formulation and delivery of social policies. Selected under PRO acquisition policy 2.2.1.5.
Accruals: Series is accruing

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