Guidance

Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2024

Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
29 January 2024
Last updated
23 April 2024 — See all updates

Documents

A5/2024: Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Initiative for the financial year ending March 2025

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A4/2024: War Pensions uprating for the financial year ending March 2025

Ref: A4/2024

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A3/2024: Valuation of capital assets

Ref: A3/2024

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Appendix A, LA1: Valuation of interest in property or land (claimant use)

PDF, 324 KB, 11 pages

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Appendix B, LA2: Valuation of interest in property or land (Local Authority use)

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A2/2024: Victims of forced marriage and victims of transnational marriage abandonment

Ref: A2/2024

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A1/2024: Changes to income and capital disregards in the Housing Benefit Regulations

Ref: A1/2024

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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: lawelfare.correspondence@dwp.gov.uk

Published 29 January 2024
Last updated 23 April 2024 + show all updates

  1. A5/2024: Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Initiative for the financial year ending March 2025 has been added.

  2. Added Housing Benefit circular A4/2024: War Pensions uprating for the financial year ending March 2025.

  3. Added HB circular A3/2024: Valuation of capital assets. Added Appendix A, LA1: Valuation of interest in property or land (Claimant use) and also Appendix B, LA2: Valuation of interest in property or land (Local Authority use).

  4. Added HB circular A2/2024: Victims of forced marriage and victims of transnational marriage abandonment.

  5. First published.

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