Catalogue description Department of Health and Social Security: Insurance Division B: Attendance Allowance, Registered Files (SD Series)
Reference: | BN 103 |
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Title: | Department of Health and Social Security: Insurance Division B: Attendance Allowance, Registered Files (SD Series) |
Description: |
This series contains registered files about the policy and formation of a new benefit for the severely disabled. The name of the new benefit was Attendance Allowance. |
Date: | 1957-1991 |
Related material: |
For records of the National Attendance Allowance Unit see: |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | SD file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988 |
Physical description: | 101 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2003 Department for Work and Pensions |
Selection and destruction information: | Records selected under section 2.1.5 of the acquisition policy statement relating to formulation and delivery of social policies |
Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
Administrative / biographical background: |
Attendance allowance was a new allowance for disabled persons payable to the carer up to the age of 16 and then either direct or to some other appointed person. |
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