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Welcome to the Independent Review
Service
for the Social Fund
website.
Our site is aimed
at those who have an interest in the Social Fund and its review process. It has
a wide range of information that will help frontline decision makers,
representatives, advisers and customers.
Please click here if you have any comments about your Social Fund
experience.
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Important Changes To The Discretionary Social Fund
Scheme
There have been a
number of significant changes to the discretionary Social Fund, particularly to
the crisis loan scheme and to considerations for repeat applications. We are
currently in the process of reviewing and updating the Commissioner's Advice to
Inspectors generally and in these areas specifically. In the meantime, our
recent Journal - Issue 40 Summer 2011 - covers the changes to the crisis loan
scheme and includes some case examples to illustrate the impact of those
changes. In the What's New
section on this website you will also find short articles on these and other
recent changes.
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Spring
2012 - Journal 41
Our
latest Journal magazine is free to download: just click the link here:
Journal
41
The latest edition of the
Journal focuses on Direction 4(a)(v) - this is definitely the longest and
probably the most complex aspect of grant qualification; it includes a number
of different tests and they all have to be satisfied before a grant can be
considered. We look at the different tests and what each means and we cover
some of the questions that we are most frequently asked. The article is
complemented with case examples in our "Digest of
Decisions".
We now only publish
the Journal in electronic format. We can let you know when future Journals are
published. If you are interested in this service, and are not already on our
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info@irs-review.org.uk.
If you would like to read
previous editions of the Journal then please go to our
publications and leaflets page on this site.
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