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Ministry of National Insurance: Approved Societies, Representative National Health...

Catalogue reference: PIN 24

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PIN 24

This series contains selected records of two approved societies, the Ideal Benefit Society and the Tunbridge Wells Equitable Friendly Society.The records include minutes of the societies and their committees, administrative files, membership...

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Reference

PIN 24

Title
Ministry of National Insurance: Approved Societies, Representative National Health Insurance Records
Date

1912-1951

Description

This series contains selected records of two approved societies, the Ideal Benefit Society and the Tunbridge Wells Equitable Friendly Society.

The records include minutes of the societies and their committees, administrative files, membership cards, sick record cards and registers, and the contribution register.

The series also contains the Approved Societies Handbook for 1933 and a file on the allocation of national insurance numbers.

The records of the Tunbridge Wells Equitable Friendly Society also include a small amount of material from two small societies, the Horsmonden Society and the Kent Coal League Insurance Society, which amalgamated with it.

Note

In March 2012 it was noticed that pieces on the online Catalogue had been incorrectly loaded, which had resulted in the reference numbers for PIN 24/60 onwards being out of sequence by one number (so the description for PIN 24/60 on the catalogue was actually the description for PIN 24/61, and so on). This has now been corrected.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Ideal Benefit Society, 1912-1948
  • Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
  • Ministry of National Insurance, Administrative Divisions, 1944-1948
  • Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department A, 1948-1953
  • Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department B, 1948-1953
  • Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department C, 1948-1953
  • Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department D, 1949-1953
  • Ministry of National Insurance, Unemployment Insurance Division, 1944-1948
  • Tunbridge Wells Equitable Friendly Society, 1912-1948
Physical description

188 files and volumes

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure

Subjects
Topics
Mutual societies
Coal
Friendly societies
Accruals

Series is not accruing.

Administrative / biographical background

These approved societies provided national health insurance for the insurably employed and voluntary contributors from 1912 to 1948.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11537/

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