Benefits Agency
Executive Agency overview
Formed1991
Preceding Executive Agency
Dissolved2001
Superseding agency
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
Parent departmentDepartment of Social Security

The Benefits Agency (BA), a now defunct UK government welfare department, was an executive agency of the United Kingdom Department of Social Security (subsequently the Department for Work and Pensions) which was set up in 1991 to "help create and deliver an active modern social security service, which encourages and enables independence and aims to pay the right money at the right time".[1][2] The BA was merged with the Employment Service in April 2001 to form Jobcentre Plus.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Department for Education and Employment resource accounts 2000 to 2001". GOV.UK. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  2. ^ "2010 to 2015 government policy: welfare reform". GOV.UK. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Birth of the Welfare State". Birth of the Welfare State. Retrieved 12 April 2015.


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