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A list of Housing Benefit circulars and the guidance manual chapters they relate to.
Suggestions of best practice and good ideas for your Armed Forces Covenant.
This document sets out the Armed Forces Covenant.
This COP26 leaflet gives detailed information on tax credit overpayments.
Urgent actions refugees need to do to claim Universal Credit and other benefits, once they have been given refugee status.
DWP provider guidance for Access to Work holistic assessments.
Guidance for DWP decision makers on decision making and appeals.
A DWP staff guide about how overpayments of benefits are recovered.
A guide to the law relating to Child Benefit and Guardian's Allowance. It is presented in 12 main sections, which generally reflect the order of the relevant acts and regulations.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Find out how to contact or make a payment to the National Recoupment Team.
Information for employers making Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) deductions.
Guidance and materials for the survey of adult carers in England (SACE) 2025 to 2026 survey year.
Guidance for DWP staff who suspend or terminate payment of benefit or defer a decision on a benefit claim.
What Universal Credit means for couples who make a joint claim, including who can make a joint claim and what they will be expected to do in return.
A guide to how social security benefits and lump sum payments can affect your award of compensation.
Information for prison leavers, work coaches and probation officers about Universal Credit.
This leaflet explains how the Child Maintenance Service works out how much child maintenance a paying parent must pay.
This leaflet explains the process for reviewing child maintenance cases every year and how it affects paying parents and receiving parents.
This guidance is for providers of all DWP employment-related programmes. It is also known as the framework generic provider guidance.
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