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Series
Ministry of Pensions and Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance: Special Grants...
Catalogue reference: PIN 84
What's it about?
PIN 84
This series contains selected examples of payments made by the Special Grants Committee of the Ministry of Pensions and Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance illustrating the types of award made.
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 84
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Pensions and Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance: Special Grants Committee: Case Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1916-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains selected examples of payments made by the Special Grants Committee of the Ministry of Pensions and Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance illustrating the types of award made.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Very few case files survive.
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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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- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Special Grants Committee, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Pensions, Special Grants Committee, 1919-1953
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 44 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to closure for periods up to 100 years
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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
- Pay and pensions
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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 Special Grants Committee (which replaced the earlier Statutory Committee of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation) was appointed by the Minister of Pensions, and had power to supplement state pensions, grant education allowances and special discretionary grants to dependants of servicemen killed or disabled during service or after discharge.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11597/
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