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{{Short description|Former executive agency in the UK}}
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{{Use British English|date=April 2015}}
{{Infobox Government agency
|agency_name = Benefits Agency
|type = Executive Agency
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|formed = 1991
|preceding1 = [[Department of Social Security]]
|dissolved = 2001
|superseding = [[Jobcentre Plus]]
|jurisdiction = Great Britain
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|parent_department = [[Department of Social Security]]
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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".<ref>{{Cite news |title=Department for Education and Employment resource accounts 2000 to 2001 |language=en |work=GOV.UK |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-and-employment-resource-accounts-2000-to-2001 |access-date=2015-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2010 to 2015 government policy: welfare reform |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-welfare-reform/2010-to-2015-government-policy-welfare-reform |access-date=2015-04-12 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref> The BA was merged with the Employment Service in April 2001 to form [[Jobcentre Plus]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Birth of the Welfare State |url=https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/history-science-technology-and-medicine/history-medicine/history-the-arts/history/history-science-technology-and-medicine/history-medicine/birth-the-welfare-state |access-date=2015-04-12 |website=Birth of the Welfare State |language=en}}</ref>
== References ==
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[[Category:Pensions in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Defunct executive agencies of the United Kingdom government]]
[[Category:1991 establishments in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Employment agencies of the United Kingdom]]
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