Social Security and Child Support rules and guidance
Procedure rules
The First-tier Social Security and Child Support Tribunal is governed by The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier) (Social Entitlement Chamber) Rules 2008.
Practice statements and directions
Those in the public domain include:
- Senior President of Tribunals Practice Statement: Delegation of functions to Legal Officers (Social Entitlement Chamber)
- Senior President of Tribunals Practice Statement: Delegation of functions to Registrars First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber)
- Delegation of functions to staff in relation to the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal – on or after 1 October 2014
- Senior President of Tribunals Practice Statement: social security and child support cases
- Senior President of Tribunals Practice Statement on Record of Proceedings in Social Security and Child Support cases in the Social Entitlement Chamber – on or after 31.3.22
Chamber President’s guidance notes
- Chamber President’s Guidance Note No. 1: Electronic delivery of documents in the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal on or after 2 July 2020 (amended 27 November 2020)
- Chamber President’s Guidance Note No. 2: Legal Officers in the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal on or after 26th July (updated 13 December 2022)
- Chamber President’s Guidance Note No. 3: Deployment of Registrars in the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal on or after 1 April 2016 (18 January 2016)
- Chamber President’s Guidance Note No. 4: Procedure for obtaining medical notes after 1st April 2019 (28 March 2019)
- Chamber President’s Guidance Note No. 5: Mode of hearing in Social Security and Child Support Appeals (18 October 2021)
- Chamber President’s Guidance Note No. 7: Taking evidence from a person located overseas (5 September 2024)
Forms, guidance and further information
For those appealing social security benefit and child support decisions to the First-tier Tribunal guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website.