Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance
1953 The Ministry of National Insurance and Ministry of Pensions were merged, becoming the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, in an attempt to provide a more coherent system for paying war pensions and national insurance benefits.
1954 the new ministry also took over the administration of death and disability pensions for merchant seamen and fishermen killed or injured in the First World War (formerly administered by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation). It continued to provide agency services undertaken by the Ministry of National Insurance and also certain services in connection with the health functions of the former Ministry of Pensions, responsibility for which had passed in 1953 to the Ministry of Health.
1966 The Ministry of Social Security was established; at the same time the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance and the National Assistance Board were dissolved, and their functions transferred to the new Ministry, except for certain powers transferred to a new Supplementary Benefits Commission (which was to have responsibility for general guidance on supplementary benefits awards and individual awards).
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Sources of Information
- [1] National Archives