The Department of Social Security (DSS) was a governmental agency in the United Kingdom from 1988 to 2001.

After the Fowler report, the Department of Health and Social Security separated during 1988 to form two departments, one of which was the DSS.

[1] As part of the UK government's spending review (March 1998),[5] a paper New Ambitions for our Country: A New Contract for Welfare (1998) announced plans to increase efficiency ("streamline") in the administration of benefits from policy of social welfare, plans subsequently adopted as the "single gateway to benefits".

[6][7] The Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999[8][9] brought reforms to the DSS guided by the principle of "work for those that can and security for those that cannot".

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