Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Newcastle Central Office, Overseas...

This series contains files of the Newcastle Central Office, Overseas Group relating to the administration of reciprocal agreements with overseas governments for the payment of pensions and other social security benefits.

The files in this series relate both to the internal concerns of the Overseas Group and, particularly, to the links with the International Relations Division.

For policy files of the Central Pensions Branch of the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) see BN 39

• Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-2001
• Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
• Department of Social Security, 1988-2001

From 1982 Department of Health and Social Security

Topics

Pay and pensions

The Overseas Group at the Newcastle Central Office was set up in 1948 to take responsibility for the operation, though not the negotiation, of reciprocal agreements with overseas countries for the payment of pensions and other social security benefits and, subsequently, for the administration of European Community regulations in this field.

In 1974, carrying out the same functions, it became the Overseas Branch of the Office's B Division. It acts in close liaison with the department's International Relations Division, situated in London, whose function is to consider policy in these matters.