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 and successors: Records of the Supplementary...
Catalogue reference: BN 130
What's it about?
BN 130
Thi series contains records of the Supplementary Benefits and Family Support Group. The file series covers the review (and the resulting legislative changes) into supplementary benefits schemes in Great Britain.
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 130
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security and successors: Records of the Supplementary Benefits and Family Support Group (REV Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1965-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Thi series contains records of the Supplementary Benefits and Family Support Group. The file series covers the review (and the resulting legislative changes) into supplementary benefits schemes in Great Britain.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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This series is arranged in file reference order.
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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)
- REV
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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)
- Department of Health and Social Security, Supplementary Benefits Division 1, 1977-1982
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 118 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2012 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
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The Department for Work and Pensions became custodians of the series in 2001 when the department replaced the Department of Social Security, 1988–2001. The series was previously held by the Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series meets TNA's Acquisition Policy theme 2.2.1.5 Formulation and delivery of social policies, and the management of public resources
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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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A Review of Supplementary Benefits was established in 1976. The review report, 'Social Assistance, A Review of the Supplementary Benefits Scheme in Great Britain', was published in July 1978. The implementation of the review was undertaken with the change of government in 1979, under the Secretary of State Sir Patrick Jenkin. (This review was prior to the later reform undertaken by Sir Norman Fowler). The work was undertaken by Supplementary Benefits and Family Support Group; Division SBI.
The review changed two areas within the administration of supplementary benefits; A. Legal and administrative changes; clear entitlement and published rules and the subsequent abolish of the Supplementary Benefit Commission.B. Changes in benefit; deferring school leavers' entitlement, aligning of supplementary benefit and national insurance rates, reduction in the qualifying period for the long-term rates, fewer children's rates, standard rent shares from non-dependent members of a claimant's household, treatment of resources, equal treatment of resources.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16417/
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