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Catalogue description Department of Social Security: Registered files: Policy files on Unemployment Benefit and Job Seekers Allowance
| Reference: | JB 59 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Department of Social Security: Registered files: Policy files on Unemployment Benefit and Job Seekers Allowance |
| Description: |
This series contains files on the policy work for Unemployment Benefit, including the changes in the rules for the unemployed, incentives to work and the introduction of Jobs Seekers Allowance. |
| Date: | 1983-2004 |
| Arrangement: |
The series is arranged in file reference order. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | JSA, UBP, ADT, IDZ, PGI, WRI, RHS |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department for Work and Pensions, 2001- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988 Department of Social Security, 1988-2001 |
| Physical description: | 839 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2017 Department for Work and Pensions |
| Custodial history: | Department of Social Security; then Department for Work and Pensions. |
| Accumulation dates: | 1989 to 2000 |
| Selection and destruction information: | OSP5 5.2.6 |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
This series contains files on the policy work for Unemployment Benefit, including the changes in the rules for the unemployed, incentives to work and the introduction of Jobs Seekers Allowance. Originating under the Department of Health and social security, it was later inherited by the Department of Work and Pensions in 2001. |
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