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Series
Department for Work and Pensions and predecessor: Payment Modernisation Programme:...
Catalogue reference: JB 128
What's it about?
JB 128
This series contains records relating to the Payment Modernisation Programme, which was responsible for modernising methods of payment to benefit claimants, including the development and implementation of universal banking, direct payments and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JB 128
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department for Work and Pensions and predecessor: Payment Modernisation Programme: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1997-2007
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to the Payment Modernisation Programme, which was responsible for modernising methods of payment to benefit claimants, including the development and implementation of universal banking, direct payments and the Post Office Card Account.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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In former reference order by prefix and by accession
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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)
- FNP, MPM, UBR
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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 Social Security, 1988-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 112 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 2026 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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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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The Payment Modernisation Programme sat under the Finance Policy and Practice Division of the Department of Social Security, which later became the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C20364829/
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