Record revealed
Letter from a ‘destitute’ man to the Poor Law Commission
In this letter, Thomas Henshaw of Derbyshire complained of his treatment by local officials who denied him welfare despite his ‘most distressing’ situation.
Series
Office of the National Insurance Commissioners and successors: Commissioners' Decisions,...
Catalogue reference: CT 48
What's it about?
CT 48
This series contains Commissioners' decisions relating to sickness benefit, with the following prefixes: CS (Sickness Benefit) CSS (Sickness Benefit. Scotland) CWS (Sickness Benefit, Wales)
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 48
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the National Insurance Commissioners and successors: Commissioners' Decisions, Sickness Benefit
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Commissioners' decisions relating to sickness benefit, with the following prefixes:
- CS (Sickness Benefit)
- CSS (Sickness Benefit. Scotland)
- CWS (Sickness Benefit, Wales)
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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)
- CS, CSS, CWS
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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)
- 193 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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- Topics
- Welfare
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1948 to 2005
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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/C14539321/
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Office of the National Insurance Commissioners and successors: Commissioners' Decisions, Sickness Benefit
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