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Decision makers’ guide: Vol 2: International subjects: staff guide
Guidance for DWP decision makers on decision making and appeals.
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This guidance is for DWP staff who make decisions about benefits and pensions. It helps them make decisions that are accurate and consistent.
The introduction of Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment affects the guidance DWP staff use.
DWP decision makers now use Advice for decision making (instead of the DMG) for decisions that involve:
- Universal Credit
- Personal Independence Payment
- contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance and contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance for people who are eligible for Universal Credit
Why we publish this guide
We publish this guide to help people understand how we make decisions.
Information for claimants
Information for claimants about eligibility and how to claim:
Published 1 June 2013
Last updated 29 March 2019 + show all updates
Last updated 29 March 2019 + show all updates
- Replaced Chapter 7 Part 3 'Habitual residence & right to reside - IS/JSA/SPC/ESA'. The updated version has annotations to DMG Memo 2/16 'Right to reside – IS, JSA(IB), ESA(IR) & SPC – Effect of Upper Tribunal Decision'
- Added revised DMG volume 2 chapter 7 parts 1, 2 and 6 and amendment 40, which lists the amendments.
- Added revised DMG volume 2 chapter 7 part 3 and amendment 39, which lists the amendments.
- Added revised DMG volume 2 chapter 7 parts 1, 2, 6 and amendment 38, which lists the amendments.
- Added revised DMG volume 2, chapter 7, parts 2 and 6. Annotated to DMG memo 16/17.
- Added revised volume 2 chapters 701 and 706, annotated to DMG memo 15/17.
- Added revised DMG volume 2 chapter 7 parts 3, 6 and amendment 37, which lists the amendments. Also deleted out of date amendments 31 and 32.
- Added revised volume 2 chapter 7 parts 2, 3 and amendment 36, which lists the amendments.
- Added revised volume 2 chapter 7 parts 1 and 4, annotated to DMG memo 1/17.
- Replaced Chapter 7 Part 3 annotated with new memo 22/16.
- Added revised volume 2 chapter 7 part 3. The amendments are listed in amendment 35.
- Replaced Chapter 7 Part 2 annotated with new memo 20/16.
- Revised DMG Vol 2 Ch 7 Part 6: SDA, SPC, WB/Bereavement Benefit and Winter Fuel Payments [072960 to 073259] - annotated to DMG memo 18/16.
- Added revised chapter 7 parts 1, 2, 3 and 6. The amendments to these parts are listed in amendment 34.
- Published revised amendment 33 - page 2 - amended abbreviations and statute abbreviations.
- Added revised DMG chapter 7 part 3 and amendment 33, which lists the amendments.
- Revised DMG Vol 2 Ch 7 Part 3: Habitual residence and right to reside IS, JSA and SPC - annotated to DMG memo 6/16 and DMG Vol 2 Ch 7 Part 5: JSA to Retirement Pension - annotated to DMG memo 6/16.
- Replaced vol 2, chapter 7, part 3 with revised version - added paragraph 073260.
- Replaced volume 2, chapter 7, part 2: AA, DLA and CA to dependency increases - annotated with reference to memo 1/16.
- Replaced Chapter 7 Part 2 annotated with new memos 26 and 27/15.
- Added revised chapter 7 parts 1 and 3. The amendments to these parts are listed in amendment 32.
- Added revised chapter 7 parts 3 and 6. The amendments to these parts are listed in amendment 31.
- Replaced chapter 0703 annotated with new memo 18/15.
- Replaced chapter 0703 annotated with new memo 16/15.
- Added revised chapter 7 parts 1, 3 and amendment 30. The amendments to these parts are listed in amendment 30.
- Replaced ch 0703 annotated with new memos 1 and 2/15.
- Amended annex 3, Incapacity Benefit 7.2. references from DMG 071439 to DMG 073839 and DMG 071421 to DMG 073821.
- Amended chapter 0703 from: 'Therefore the changes only affect claims made, or treated as made, on or after 1.1.14'. To: 'Transitional provisions provide that any period of duly recorded involuntary unemployment or any period during which a person is a jobseeker, prior to 1.1.14, should be disregarded'.
- Added revised annex 3 and new amendment 29.
- Replaced chapters 0701 to 0707 with revised versions - renumbered and annotated to memos 25 and 31/14.
- Added amendment 28 giving changes to chapter 7 part 3.
- Replaced DMG ch0703 with revised version with amendment to regs relating to same sex couples and annotated to DMG memos 15/14, 1/14 and 28/13.
- Added revised chapter 7 parts 1 to 6. The amendments to these parts are listed in amendment 27 - also added.
- Added revised ch 7 part 3 - annotated to DMG memo 1/14 - JSA(IB) - right to reside - establishing whether an EEA national is/was a 'worker' or a 'self-employed person'.
- Added revised ch 7 part 3 with annotations to DMG memo 28/13 - 3 months residence requirement.
- Chapter 7 part 3 – added reference to DMG memo 27/13 – Nationals – ending of restriction on right to reside
- Amended - DMG Vol 2 Ch 7 Part 1: Common subjects [070000 to 070899] and added amendment 26 - To clarify the position about the status of family members who come to the UK to join a person with refugee status.
- First published.