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Site	Description	Address
RightsNet	The best general welfare rights resource on the net with news, reviews, discussion forum, links and more from London Advice Services Alliance.	www.rightsnet.org.uk
Social Security & Child Support Commissioners	GB Commissioners Website, with reported commissioners decisions from 1991 and all selected decisions from 2001.	www.osscsc.gov.uk
Social Security Agency	Basic social security information specific to N. Ireland.	www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/ssa.htm
Department of Works and Pensions	GB government site with some useful information resources.	www.dwp.gov.uk
Social Security Advisory Committee	GB government consultation on draft social security regulations.	www.ssac.org.uk
DSD pages on NI benefit law	Social security and child support law relating to NI, NIDOC (NI caselaw), NI commissioners decisions and links to other commissioners decisions sites.	www.employmentappeals.gov.uk
Disability Alliance	Provide benefits information for people with disabilities. Also publishers of the excellent Disability Rights Handbook.	www.disabilityalliance.org
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs	Info on tax credits and child benefit.	www.hmrc.gov.uk
The Litigation Register (DSD)	The Pending section of the database contains the Commissioner’s decision or court judgment which is the subject of an appeal to a higher court, and indicates the progress of cases still awaiting judgment. The Decided section of the database contains the important court judgments from January 1999. As the need is identified, and resources permit, other relevant past judgments will be added.	http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/litigation_register.htm

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Last Modified: 06 May 2008