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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.


We currently have the following vacancies:

Administrative Assistants and Administrative Officers
Executive Officers and Higher Executive Officers


Please click on the grade you are interested in to be taken to the relevant job page




What's new

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Publications

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Employment and Support Allowance

Changes to Rules about Repeat Applications

Mythbusters
Sort out the Social Fund facts from the myths with our new section.


Workshops
Adviser organisations: We are sorry, but we are unable to take new bookings for workshops on your premises for the foreseeable future.

The core business of the IRS is to provide a timeous review service to citizens who are dissatisfied with the outcome of the decision they received following their review in Jobcentre Plus. Increasing numbers of requests for reviews has meant that we have diverted resources to this core task. Meanwhile....

You may find the Self Instruction Packs useful, or alternatively.

Look out for a Conference Workshop. We will still be holding Conference-Workshops. Follow the link to find the areas we shall visit in 2009/10.

Journals
The latest Journal (37) is now available to read and download

Social Fund Commissioner's Annual Report
The latest report on the output and progress of the IRS during the previous year
 
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