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Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2013
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Published 20 September 2017
Documents
A24/2013: Uprating 2014 to 2015
Ref: A24/2013 PDF, 223KB, 27 pages
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A23/2013: Benefit cap dual cases in different local authorities
Ref: A23/2013 PDF, 114KB, 5 pages
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A22/2013: Clarification of information sharing relating to Welfare Services – domiciliary (non-residential) and residential care (as outlined in A5/2012)
Ref: A22/2013 PDF, 98.2KB, 5 pages
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A21/2013: Size criteria rules for disabled children and treatment of joint tenants affected by removal of the spare room subsidy
Ref: A21/2013 PDF, 140KB, 14 pages
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A20/2013: The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.3) Regulations 2013
Ref: A20/2013 PDF, 99.9KB, 5 pages
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A19/2013: The Universal Credit (Transitional Provisions) and Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Ref: A19/2013 PDF, 127KB, 8 pages
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A18/2013: Invitation to bid for DHP reserve funding for the removal of spare room subsidy
Ref: A18/2013 PDF, 159KB, 9 pages
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A18/2013: Form – Local authority application for Discretionary Housing Payment reserve funding to support the implementation of the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy
Ref: A18/2013 MS Word Document, 64.5KB
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A17/2013: Discretionary Housing Payments
Ref: A17/2013 PDF, 96.6KB, 4 pages
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A17/2013: Summary of Discretionary Housing Payment awards
Ref: A17/2013 MS Excel Spreadsheet, 65.5KB
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A16/2013: Accession of Croatia to the European Union
Ref: A16/2013 PDF, 169KB, 12 pages
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A15/2013: Administration of the benefit cap
Ref: A15/2013 PDF, 252KB, 29 pages
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A14/2013: Universal Credit: Change of circumstances affecting Housing Benefit
Ref: A14/2013 PDF, 137KB, 9 pages
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A13/2013: Universal Credit – change of circumstances affecting Housing Benefit
Ref: A13/2013 PDF, 206KB, 16 pages
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A12/2013: Removal of the spare room subsidy – joint tenants
Ref: A12/2013 PDF, 101KB, 5 pages
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A11/2013: Discretionary Housing Payments
Ref: A11/2013 PDF, 102KB, 5 pages
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A11/2013: Discretionary Housing Payments 1 Apr 2013 to 30 Sep 2013 – Appendix A
Ref: A11/2013 MS Excel Spreadsheet, 72KB
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A11/2013: Summary of Discretionary Housing Payment awards – Appendix B
Ref: A11/2013 MS Excel Spreadsheet, 65.5KB
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A10/2013: Size criteria for approved foster carers and parents of armed forces personnel
Ref: A10/2013 PDF, 138KB, 13 pages
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A9/2013: Using social security data for local services
Ref: A9/2013 PDF, 130KB, 7 pages
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A8/2013: The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous) Regulations 2013
Ref: A8/2013 PDF, 96.3KB, 4 pages
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A7/2013: Operational information, performance support and inspection in 2013/14
Ref: A7/2013 PDF, 106KB, 5 pages
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A6/2013: Personal Independence Payment
Ref: A6/2013 PDF, 189KB, 13 pages
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A5/2013: Introduction of Armed Forces Independence Payment
Ref: A5/2013 PDF, 106KB, 7 pages
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A4/2013: DWP change to support the abolition of Council Tax Benefit
Ref: A4/2013 PDF, 162KB, 19 pages
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A3/2013: Using social security data for Council Tax purposes
Ref: A3/2013 PDF, 115KB, 5 pages
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A2/2013: 2013/14 uprating
Ref: A2/2013 PDF, 220KB, 27 pages
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A1/2013: Transitional arrangements during the abolition of Council Tax Benefit
Ref: A1/2013 PDF, 125KB, 5 pages
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Details
Adjudication circulars provide advice, guidance and information on Housing Benefit to local authority staff. They update the Housing Benefit guidance manual.
The circulars make many references to Council Tax Benefit as this was administered by local authorities alongside Housing Benefit until March 2013.
In April 2013 Council Tax Benefit was replaced by local authorities’ own council tax support and reduction schemes, removing DWP’s involvement.
Readers will need to consider references to Council Tax Benefit in these documents accordingly.
For enquiries about the distribution of circulars, email: housing.correspondenceandpqs@dwp.gov.uk.
Published 20 September 2017