Guidance

Housing Benefit subsidy circulars 2015

Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 30 January 2015
• Last updated: 18 December 2015
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  1. 18 December 2015

     Added S9/2015 (England), S10/2015 (Scotland) and S11/2015 (Wales) on Housing Benefit administration subsidy arrangements for local authorities for 2016/17.

  2. 17 July 2015

     Added revised version of S8/2015 - 200 of the 380 payments of New Burdens relating to the Single Fraud Investigation Service for 2015/16, have been amended.

  3. 16 July 2015

     Added S8/2015: Payment of New Burdens relating to the Single Fraud Investigation Service for 2015/16.

  4. 29 June 2015

     Added S7/2015: New Burdens payment for the Real Time Information bulk data matching initiative.

  5. 27 May 2015

     Added S5/2015: New Burdens payment for migrants access to benefits and S6/2015: Rent Rebate Subsidy Limitation information – 2015/2016.

  6. 30 January 2015

     First published.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

S11/2015: Housing Benefit administration subsidy arrangements for Welsh local authorities for 2016/17

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S10/2015 Housing Benefit administration subsidy arrangements for Scottish local authorities for 2016/17

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S9/2015: Housing Benefit administration subsidy arrangements for English local authorities for 2016/17

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S8/2015: Payment of New Burdens relating to the Single Fraud Investigation Service for 2015/16

Ref: S8/2015

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S7/2015: New Burdens payment for the Real Time Information bulk data matching initiative

Ref: S7/2015

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S6/2015: Rent Rebate Subsidy Limitation information for financial year 2015/2016

Ref: S6/2015

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S5/2015: New Burdens payment for migrants access to Benefits

Ref: S5/2015

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S4/2015: Additional funding to meet the costs of implementing welfare reform changes in 2015/16

Ref: S4/2015

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S3/2015: Fraud and Error Reduction Incentive Scheme 2015/16 funding

Ref: S3/2015

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S2/2015: New Burdens payment for Real Time Information bulk data matching project

Ref: S2/2015

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S1/2015: Discretionary Housing Payments government contribution for tax year 2015 to 2016

Ref: S1/2015

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Details

Housing Benefit subsidy (S) circulars give information about:

• the money the government pays local authorities in the form of a subsidy to administer Housing Benefit
• other financial matters for local authority staff

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.