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Series
Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Earnings Related Supplement,...
Catalogue reference: PIN 72
What's it about?
PIN 72
This series contains files of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors relating to the introduction and administration of earnings related supplement to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit and widow's allowance,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PIN 72
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Earnings Related Supplement, Registered files (ER Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1956-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors relating to the introduction and administration of earnings related supplement to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit and widow's allowance, introduced under the National Insurance Act 1966.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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ER file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department A, 1968-1969
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department B, 1968-1969
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department C, 1968-1969
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department D, 1968-1969
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division A, 1969-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division B, 1969-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division C, 1969-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division D, 1969-1975
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division K, 1969-1982
- Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division L, 1972-1981
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department A, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department B, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department C, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department D, 1965-1966
- Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department A, 1966-1968
- Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department B, 1966-1968
- Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department C, 1966-1969
- Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department D, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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120 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2008 Department for Work and Pensions
from 1987 Department of Health and Social Security
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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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- Topics
- Welfare
- Labour
- Pay and pensions
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is not accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The National Insurance Act 1966 introduced earnings-related supplements to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit and widow's allowance. To pay for these supplements, employed persons not contracted out began to pay increased graduated contributions, while those contracted out began to pay at a rate equivalent to that increase. The contributions also counted for graduated pensions.
The scheme was abolished for new claims from January 1982 under the Social Security (No.2) Act 1980.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11585/
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Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and successors: Earnings Related Supplement, Registered files (ER Series)
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