{"id":19382,"date":"2020-08-27T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/feds-seeking-applications-for-new-social-security-tribunal-members-149349"},"modified":"2020-08-27T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:00:30","slug":"feds-seeking-applications-for-new-social-security-tribunal-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/08\/27\/feds-seeking-applications-for-new-social-security-tribunal-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds seeking applications for new social security tribunal members"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/123rf_Rawpixel_board-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"RF-Board\" title=\"Feds seeking applications for new social security tribunal members\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 27, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The federal government is seeking applications to appoint new full- and part-time&nbsp;members to its social security tribunal, the arm\u2019s length entity responsible for decisions on appeals relating to Canada Pension Plan, employment insurance and old-age security.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the SST\u2019s general division operate as first-level decision-makers and are tasked with providing fair hearing and decisions on these appeals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to welcoming well-qualified and diverse applicants from communities across&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>&nbsp;to the member positions on the social security tribunal,\u201d said Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/feds-update-appeals-process-for-ei-cpp-and-oas-134506\">Feds update appeals process for EI, CPP and OAS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSST members are integral to ensuring&nbsp;the country\u2019s most vulnerable Canadians can benefit from an efficient, fair and transparent appeals process.&nbsp;Their decisions are vital to the economic security and well-being of those Canadians who appeal to them, many of whom face significant challenges in accessing justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Full-time member appointments last five years while part-time appointments are for two years. Applications close Sept. 18, 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/feds-seeking-applications-for-new-social-security-tribunal-members-149349\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 27, 2020 The federal government is seeking applications to appoint new full- and part-time&nbsp;members to its social security tribunal, the arm\u2019s length entity responsible for decisions on appeals relating to Canada Pension Plan,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}