The Office of the Social Fund Commissioner (OSFC) is based in Belfast and serves all of Northern Ireland. A separate organisation, with offices in Birmingham serves Great Britain.

Our core business is to deliver an independent review of discretionary Social Fund decisions made in the Social Security Agency. We also share information and expertise with those who have an interest in the discretionary Social Fund and its review. We participate in social policy research that contributes to the wide debate about the Social Fund and related issues. Click here for our Organisation Chart.

For more detailed information about the OSFC, please see our Annual Report in the Information Centre section. More information, which we hope you find useful, is also available in other sections of the web site.

About The OSFC Northern Ireland Web Site

The OSFCNI Web Site has been carefully designed to be easily accessible for disabled people and also follows the The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) guidelines for HTML 4.01.

All pages in this site conform to the W3C guidelines for HTML 4.01

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