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Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
The DWP offshoring policy sets out what controls and recommended practices apply to contractors or sub-contractors.
Sample content for communications on the recent changes to Housing Benefit (removal of the spare room subsidy).
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
A guide about who qualifies for Income Support, who you can claim for, how to claim and how payments are made.
A review of the Family Resources Survey weighting scheme.
Statistical notice about a change to the next release of income-related benefits: estimates of take-up official statistics.
Information and advice if a friend or family member has been a victim of murder, manslaughter or has died in suspicious circumstances in the Philippines
Statistical notice about changes to the way DWP will publish statistics about benefit underpayments and how it will classify cases which fail to provide evidence.
Statistical notice about changes to the way DWP will publish statistics about benefit underpayments and call for feedback.
Leaflets, images and other communications resources for use by stakeholders to communicate with 15 to 18-year-olds and their parents or guardians about Child Trust Funds.
This document contains the following information: Collection of missing persons data: a code of practice.
Statistical notice about changes in the DWP Households Below Average Income and Pensioners’ Incomes Series statistics publications.
This statistical notice is about changes to the fraud and error in the benefit system publication
Statistical notice about changes to the fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2021 to 2022 estimates publication.
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