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Letter from a ‘destitute’ man to the Poor Law Commission
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Series
Office of the National Insurance Commissioners and successors: Commissioners' Decisions,...
Catalogue reference: CT 42
What's it about?
CT 42
This series contains Commissioners' decisions relating to various subjects, with the following file prefixes:CAF (War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation)CG (General)CSG (General, Scotland)CTC (Tax Credits)CSHB (Housing Benefit and Council Tax...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CT 42
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the National Insurance Commissioners and successors: Commissioners' Decisions, Various
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1947-2005
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Commissioners' decisions relating to various subjects, with the following file prefixes:
- CAF (War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation)
- CG (General)
- CSG (General, Scotland)
- CTC (Tax Credits)
- CSHB (Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit, Scotland)
- CWG (General, Wales)
- UP (Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions)
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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)
- CAF, CG, CSG, CSHB, CTC, CWG, UP
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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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- Office of the National Insurance Commissioners, 1946-1980
- Office of the Social Security and Child Support Commissioners, 1993-1993
- Office of the Social Security Commissioners, 1980-1993
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 131 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 84 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2015 Ministry of Justice
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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)
- No further accruals are expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14539313/
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Office of the National Insurance Commissioners and successors: Commissioners' Decisions, Various
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