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Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit...
Catalogue reference: PIN 79
What's it about?
PIN 79
This series contains files created by the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors for the Board administering the Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Scheme and the Industrial Diseases (Miscellaneous) Benefit Scheme.The files concern...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PIN 79
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Scheme and Industrial Diseases (Miscellaneous) Benefit Scheme, Registered files ( PNB Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1951-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files created by the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors for the Board administering the Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Scheme and the Industrial Diseases (Miscellaneous) Benefit Scheme.
The files concern the development and application of the scheme and do not contain case papers.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Copies of minutes of the board's meetings are in PIN 20
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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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PNB 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, Adjudication Officer, 1975-1975
- Department of Health and Social Security, Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board, 1968-1975
- Ministry of National Insurance, Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board, 1951-1953
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Social Security, Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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15 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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
- Disease
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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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Pneumoconiosis and byssinosis are industrial lung diseases caused by the inhalation of certain dusts and which may take many years to develop. The Workmen's Compensation Acts provided compensation only for particular kinds of cases, bound by time limitations, and the purpose of the Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Scheme 1952 and its amendment in 1954 was to extend the cover.
The Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board was established to administer the scheme introduced by the Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Act 1951. Initially covering people totally disabled by, and the dependents of people dying from, the diseases, in 1954 it was extended to cover those partially disabled only.
In 1954 the Industrial Diseases (Miscellaneous) Benefit Scheme was introduced, designed similarly to extend cover for other slowly-developing malignant diseases of industrial origin, also scheduled under the Workmen's Compensation Acts.
The board also administered the Industrial Diseases (Miscellaneous) Benefit Scheme, which provided for people suffering from some occupational skin cancers or from excessive exposure to radioactivity.
The board made its decisions on claims on the advice of specialist medical practitioners forming medical panels or boards.
In 1966 the two schemes were replaced, with little effective change, by the combined Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme.
The board was successively part of the Ministries of National Insurance, Pensions and National Insurance, and Social Security, and of the Department of Health and Social Security.
The administrative boards established under the schemes were terminated under the Social Security Act 1975. Since 1977 all questions arising over claims and benefits have been decided by an Adjudication Officer appointed under the Act, with provision for appeal.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11592/
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Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Scheme and Industrial Diseases (Miscellaneous) Benefit Scheme, Registered files ( PNB Series)
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