Benefits Agency
| Executive Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1991 |
| Preceding Executive Agency | |
| Dissolved | 2001 |
| Superseding Executive Agency | |
| Jurisdiction | Great Britain |
| Parent department | Department of Social Security |
The Benefits Agency (BA) was an executive agency of the British Department of Social Security (subsequently the Department for Work and Pensions), set up in 1991 to "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
- ^ "Department for Education and Employment resource accounts 2000 to 2001". GOV.UK. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ^ "2010 to 2015 government policy: welfare reform". GOV.UK. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
- ^ "Birth of the Welfare State". Birth of the Welfare State. Retrieved 12 April 2015.