The Contributions Agency was an executive agency of the United Kingdom government. It was set up in 1991 to administer

National Insurance National Insurance (NI) is a fundamental component of the welfare state in the United Kingdom. It acts as a form of social security, since payment of NI contributions establishes entitlement to certain state benefits for workers and their famil ...

and was part of the

Department of Social Security The Department of Social Security (DSS) was a governmental agency in the United Kingdom from 1988 to 2001. The old abbreviation is still often used informally. Advertisements for rented accommodation used to describe prospective tenants who wou ...

. It was absorbed into the Inland Revenue in 1999, when it ceased to be an executive agency. Employing over 9,000 staff, the agency was an early product of the 1988 report "Improving Management in Government: The Next Steps".

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{{reflist Defunct executive agencies of the United Kingdom government