Services
The SSA deal with the benefits given to people who may be unemployed, supporting children under 16, unemployed with medical conditions etc. Their main goals are to:
- Assess and pay social security benefits accurately and securely
- Give advice and information about these benefits
- Handle reviews and appeals
- Prevent and detect benefit fraud, prosecute offenders and recover any benefit which has been paid incorrectly
- Recover benefit which has been paid in compensation cases
- Assess people’s financial circumstances if they are applying for legal aid
Read more about this topic: Social Security Agency (Northern Ireland)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)