The Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) was an Australian quasi-judicial tribunal established in 1975 and made a division of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in July 2015.
[1] The SSAT was established on 10 February 1975 to review decisions made under the Social Services Act 1947.
[3] Initially the SSAT was limited to making recommendations without any legal effect about decisions under the Social Services Act.
[4] In 1988, its decisions were made legally enforceable when changes to the Social Services Act established it as a statutory authority.
[5] The kind of decisions it could review was increased in 2007 to include decisions made by the then Child Support Agency.