Records of the Insurance Departments, and records produced by the National Insurance...

Records of the insurance departments, and records produced as a result of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 and subsequent legislation.

Registered files are in PIN 6, PIN 19, PIN 22, PIN 32, PIN 37, PIN 43, PIN 44, PIN 46, PIN 48, PIN 49, PIN 54, PIN 68, PIN 72, PIN 89

Pensions and insurance files are in PIN 4. Labour exchanges and unemployment insurance files are in PIN 7. Files of determinations under the National Insurance Acts are in PIN 13, with benefit files in PIN 35. Records of two Approved Societies are in PIN 24. Files on reciprical agreements and related policy, as was the responsibility of Insurance Department C (and later the International Relations Division), are in PIN 34.

Records relating to the drafting and administration of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 are in: PIN 20 PIN 21

• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department A, 1968-1969
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department B, 1968-1969
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department C, 1968-1969
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Department D, 1968-1969
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division A, 1969-1988
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division B, 1969-1988
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division C, 1969-1988
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division D, 1969-1975
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division K, 1969-1982
• Department of Health and Social Security, Insurance Division L, 1972-1981
• Ministry of National Insurance, Administrative Divisions, 1944-1948
• Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department A, 1948-1953
• Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department B, 1948-1953
• Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department C, 1948-1953
• Ministry of National Insurance, Insurance Department D, 1949-1953
• Ministry of National Insurance, Unemployment Insurance Division, 1944-1948
• Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department A, 1953-1966
• Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department B, 1953-1966
• Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department C, 1953-1966
• Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Insurance Department D, 1965-1966
• Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department A, 1966-1968
• Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department B, 1966-1968
• Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department C, 1966-1969
• Ministry of Social Security, Insurance Department D, 1966-1968

Topics

Labour

Pay and pensions

Upon its formation in 1944, the Ministry of National Insurance took over from other departments a number of divisions which dealt with the administration of insurance. From the Ministry of Health it inherited the functions of its Insurance Department. Three Administrative Divisions of the Ministry of National Insurance continued the work of the Insurance Department, dealing with industrial injuries and family allowances; with unemployment and widow's benefit, retirement pensions, death grants and sickness and maternity benefits; and insurability, contributions, overseas matters and statistics. There was also a chief insurance officer who provided general policy and procedural guidance to local insurance officers and dealt with cases going before the national insurance commissioners on appeal from local tribunals. It also inherited the Ministry of Labour and National Service's Unemployment Insurance Department. This Department, situated at a central office in Southport, was continued until 1948 as the Unemployment Insurance Division of the Ministry of National Insurance.

In 1948 the new schemes specified in the National Insurance Act 1946 and the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 came into effect, and the central administration of the Ministry was rationalised to cope with them. Insurance Departments A, B, C and D (from 1949), whose functions shifted from time to time, were developed to cover all matters of general policy and legislative questions relating to the insurance schemes. These involved industrial injuries, national insurance scheme benefits and family allowances, insurability, contributions and statistics, unemployment insurance, overseas matters and adjudication arrangements. Departments A, B and C transferred to the Ministry of National Insurance and Pensions on its creation in 1953, with D being reintroduced in 1965. These four departments were then transferred to the Ministry of Social Security (1966-1968), and the Department of Health and Social Security (in 1968). In 1969 they became re-titled Divisions, and a Division K was introduced to administer the new earnings related scheme, partial contracting-out arrangements, and the preservation of occupational pension rights. From 1970 these Divisions successively came under the aegis of the Department's Social Security and Social Security Policy Groups. A Division L was also later introduced to administer family income supplements, means-tested benefits, and child benefits.

The chief insurance officer and his staff supervised the work of local insurance officers, provided general policy and procedural guidance, and prepared and presented cases going before the National Insurance Commissioner on appeal from local tribunals.