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Subgroup 03: Pensions and Group Insurance Department Records, 1914-1980

 Series
Identifier: Case Pullman 06/03

  • Staff Only

Scope and Contents note

Department handling group insurance and pension work for the Pullman Company, reporting after 1951 to the Manager of Employee Relations. Company group insurance was inaugurated in 1929 with a voluntary Plan of Group Insurance. In 1914, the company adopted a pension plan which was modified in 1937 to supplement the new federal pension system established by the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935 and administered by the Railroad Retirement Board.

Includes employee group insurance and social security account applications containing considerable demographic and genealogical information, employee records of prior service used to calculate retirement benefits, life insurance claim records containing cause of death information, printed copies of employee benefits booklets, records of the Pullman Company Board of Pensions, and isolated disability payment files.

Dates

  • Creation: 1914-1980

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Pullman Company records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Medical records and records of disciplinary action are closed for a period of fifty years after the creation of the record. Such records may be disclosed only to the named individual or his legal representative. Application and service files that may contain medical and disciplinary information will be reviewed and records removed before the files are supplied to a researcher.

Personnel records less than fifty years old and not specified in (1) above are open for research with the user's written assurance that information from the records will be used for statistical or summary purposes only and that no specific names or individually identifiable information will be disclosed. Such information may be revealed only if the individual or his legal representative agrees to its release, or if the individual is deceased.

Photocopies of open personnel records less than fifty years old are supplied only for the researcher's personal use and may not be reproduced. All copies must be destroyed or returned upon completion of work.

Arrangement note

Arranged in nine series: Group insurance application records, 1929-1970, 06/03/01; Disability payment records, 1929-1961, 06/03/02; Board of Pensions records, 1914-1975, 06/03/03; Social security account application and Railroad Retirement registration files, 1937-1960, 06/03/04; Prior service records, 1941-1969, 06/03/05; Retired with pension files, 1916-1980, 06/03/06; Deceased employees prior service files, 1926-1976, 06/03/07; Life insurance claim files, 1929-1970, 06/03/08; Employee benefits booklets, 1914-1958, 06/03/09.

General Physical Description note

183 linear feet (64 boxes, 129 record cartons, and 2 volumes)

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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