Guidance

LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2018

These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 3 September 2018
• Last updated: 3 December 2018
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  1. 3 December 2018

     Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 12/2018.

  2. 2 November 2018

     Published LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 11/2018. This includes articles on: how DWP is publishing content on GOV.UK; Discretionary Housing Payment mid-year monitoring return 2018-19; supported housing; the Scottish Government’s Carer’s Allowance Supplement; the Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 36 on Discretionary Housing Payments; interim advice on exchanging emails with trusted partners.

  3. 3 October 2018

     Published Local Authority Welfare Direct Bulletin 10/2018. This has articles on: phishing emails, the Verify Earnings and Pensions service, accessing data through CIS, LA Insight Survey wave 36, student uprating, a guide to new data matching tools, Housing Benefit decisions by the Upper Tribunal and new legislation.

  4. 2 October 2018

     Corrected email address for Discretionary Housing Payment 2018/19 mid-year monitoring returns to dhp.monitoringinbox@dwp.gsi.gov.uk.

  5. 5 September 2018

     Added DHP monitoring form 2018/19, which is LAWDB 9/2018 appendix A.

  6. 3 September 2018

     First published.

Documents

LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 12/2018

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LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 11/2018

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LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 10/2018

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LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 9/2018

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DHP monitoring return form: LAWDB 9/2018 appendix A

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LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide advice, guidance and information that affects Housing Benefit (HB) and other areas of DWP, including:

• policy changes
• good practice
• reminders

These publications replace our HB Direct newsletters and General Information Bulletins.