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Series
Department of Health and Social Security: Fraud Operations
Catalogue reference: BN 139
What's it about?
BN 139
Policy papers regarding fraud operations, in particular the planning and the targeting of particular problem areas
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 139
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and Social Security: Fraud Operations
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1977-2007
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Description (What the record is about)
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Policy papers regarding fraud operations, in particular the planning and the targeting of particular problem areas
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The series is arranged by 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)
- File Office 185, FRF, FSF, RAB, RABX, CFF
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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, Administration and Social Security Operational Group, Regional Directorate, 1976-1988
- Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 323 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 2009 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
- Crime
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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 it 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)
- Series is accruing.
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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, documenting the Supplementary Benefits Division and policies regarding means tested benefits. The selection and destruction is in line with OSP 5 The Administration of Social Security 1979-1999.
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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 Regional Directorate came within the Administrative and Social Security Operations Group in 1976, after the merger of the Administration Group and the Social Security Operations and Supplementary Benefits Group. The areas responsible for supplementary benefits were transferred to a new Group. Initially, the Directorate was responsible for providing administrative and operational support to other groups and divisions within the Department, as well as providing direction and control of social security operations in regions and local offices. This included long range studies of local social security administration. Eventually the Directorate undertook other responsibilities, including the implementation of new technology within regional/local offices and the detection and prosecution of benefit-related fraud. In 1988, the Directorate was restructured under the Social Security Operations Group.
Initially the work relating to fraud operations was handled directly by the Regional Directorate. On the creation of the Benefits Agency, Fraud Operations left Corporate Services and became a division in its own right within the Benefits Agency. In 1999 Fraud Operations returned to Corporate Services and became Security Implementation and Support. In early 2001 the branch was renamed Department of Social Security Professional Standards Unit - Fraud.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16510/
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