Catalogue description Records of Social Security Divisions

Details of Division within BN
Reference: Division within BN
Title: Records of Social Security Divisions
Description:

Records of social security divisions relating to the administration of social security benefits including records of the Supplementary Benefits Commission. Comprises:

  • Administration and Social Security Operations Group, Regional Directorate Data Processing registered files, BN 105, and Administrative services registered files, BN 111.
  • Attendance allowance files, BN 27, BN 103 and BN 100.
  • Codes of instruction re social security procedures, BN 36.
  • Committee of Enquiry into Abuse of Social Security Benefits (Fisher Committee), BN 60.
  • Contribution Policy files are in BN 104.
  • Establishment and Personnel Division 1 files, BN 121, BN 122 and BN 123.
  • Family income supplement claims, BN 70.
  • Family benefits files, BN 89.
  • Finance Division (Social Security) registered files, BN 110.
  • Insurance Division A files, BN 84, BN 118, BN 119 and BN 124 (Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme).
  • Insurance Division B files, BN 85.
  • Insurance Division D files, BN 88 and BN 92.
  • Insurance Division K and Social Security Policy Group files, BN 80.
  • Interdepartmental Social Work Group files, BN 79.
  • Liable Relative and Child Support Agency Policy Issues, BN 148.
  • Management Support and Computer Division registered files, BN 120.
  • Medical Division (Social Security) files, BN 83 and BN 129.
  • Norman Fowler Inquiry into Provision for Retirement, BN 147.
  • Planning and Finance registered files, BN 126.
  • Reasons for retirement dataset is in BN 93.
  • Regional Directorate Operational Records are in BN 112.
  • Seal matrices, BN 64.
  • Social Fund Policy (File Office 341), BN 143.
  • Social Security Policy Group Division A: registered files concerning civil liability and compensation for personal injury BN 113.
  • Social Security Policy Group Division C, Contribution Policy registered files, BN 106.
  • Social Security Policy Group Division L, Child Benefit registered files in BN 107 and Tax Credit Policy registered files (TAX Series) in BN 114.
  • Social Security Policy Group registered files concerning housing requirements and related benefits, BN 109.
  • Social Security Policy Group Branch B, Central Review Unit BN 133.
  • Social Security Policy Group, Division B, Family Support Policy, BN 149.
  • Social Security Medical Division, registered files, BN 108.
  • Social Security Support Unit registered files BN 136.
  • Social Security Insurance Division A; Rayner Scrutiny Registered Files, BN 145.
  • Statistical files relating to supplementary benefits, BN 2.
  • Supplementary Benefit and Income Support policies (means tested benefits), BN 146.
  • Supplementary Benefits and Family Support Group, BN 130.
  • Supplementary Benefits Divison 1, registered files, BN 128 , BN 131.
  • Supplementary Benefits Division Branch 3, registered files, BN 134.
  • Supplementary benefit handbooks, BN 65, and Administration papers, BN 66.
  • Supplementary Benefits Commission annual reports, BN 67.
  • Tax Credit Scheme, BN 99.
  • Validity of marriage case files, BN 15.
  • Validity of Marriage Unit and its Successors, BN 144.
  • Widows' benefits case files, BN 19.

No records are held at The National Archives for the following series: BN 4, BN 5, BN 7, BN 8 and BN 9.
Date: 1834-2006
Related material:

See also the records of the Supplementary Benefits Commission Division within AST
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 62 series
Administrative / biographical background:

The divisions of the short-lived Ministry of Social Security were absorbed into the new Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) with little evident change. The social security functions of DHSS continued to be administered in two main offices, the Blackpool Central Office, re-named North Fylde Central Office in the late 1970s and Central Pensions Branch at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

The Central Office was opened in 1946, initially dealing with allowance books, and later dealing with pensions and unemployment insurance. It was divided into branches - Child Benefit (Family Allowances); Central Pensions; Computer Services; Contributions; Establishment and Organisation; Management Services; Overseas, and Records. The Central Office was almost wholly geared to case work, but each branch had its own series of policy files.

Central Pensions Branch (with the Child Benefit and Contributions branches) was responsible for overseeing the payment of retirement pensions and related benefits.

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