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Series
Ministry of Pensions and successors: War Pensions Payments, Selected Case Files
Catalogue reference: PIN 45
What's it about?
PIN 45
This series consists of the files of the Ministry of Pensions and its successors relating to the payment of war disability pensions following award. Files relate to the payment of pensions to ex-servicemen (and their widows and dependents) from...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PIN 45
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Pensions and successors: War Pensions Payments, Selected Case Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1917-1971
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the files of the Ministry of Pensions and its successors relating to the payment of war disability pensions following award. Files relate to the payment of pensions to ex-servicemen (and their widows and dependents) from the first and the second world wars.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health and Social Security, War Pensions Department, 1968-1971
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, War Pensions Branch, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division, 1917-1944
- Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division, 1951-1952
- Ministry of Pensions, Awards Division (Blackpool), 1949-1951
- Ministry of Pensions, General Administration Division, 1917-1944
- Ministry of Pensions, General Division, 1944-1949
- Ministry of Pensions, Great War, Civilian and Mercantile Awards Division, 1944-1949
- Ministry of Pensions, New Services Awards Division, 1944-1949
- Ministry of Pensions, Pensions Division, Awards, 1952-1953
- Ministry of Pensions, Pensions Policy and General Division, 1949-1953
- Ministry of Pensions, Rehabilitation and Welfare and London Awards Division, 1949-1951
- Ministry of Social Security, War Pensions Department, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The files in this series were selected as specimens.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11558/
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