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
Department of Health and Social Security: Social Security Policy Group Supplementary...
Catalogue reference: BN 109
What's it about?
BN 109
This series contains registered files of the policy branch dealing with aspects of housing requirements and subsequent means tested benefits as the government decreased its house building programme. It also covers the Community Charge. Prefixes...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BN 109
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security: Social Security Policy Group Supplementary Benefits: Housing and related benefits: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 2000-2006
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the policy branch dealing with aspects of housing requirements and subsequent means tested benefits as the government decreased its house building programme. It also covers the Community Charge.
Prefixes include:
- HRS Supplementary Benefit Housing Requirements
- IHR Income Support Housing Requirements
- NHB New Housing Benefit
- SBL Legislation
- REN Rent and housing problems
- CCW Community Charge Work
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- File Office 257 Branch 2
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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)
- NHB
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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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- Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-2001
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
- Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1728 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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 2004 Department for Work and Pensions
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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
- Construction industries
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is 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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Benefit policy for housing requirements was handled by Branch SB2 of the Supplementary Benefits Division. Initially it was in the form of rent in the early 1980s as the policy of paying benefit for privately owned accommodation replaced the publicly funded house building programme, the benefit was termed Housing Benefit rather than Rent. By 1991, the Supplementary Benefits Division had been retitled Income Support Division but Branch 2 continued to deal with housing benefits policy.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15903/
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