LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2020
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
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LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide advice, guidance and information that affects Housing Benefit (HB) and other areas of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), including:
- policy changes
- good practice
- reminders
These publications replace our HB Direct newsletters and General Information Bulletins.
Last updated 11 December 2020 + show all updates
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Published LA Welfare Direct LAWD12/2020 with information on: 2021 to 22 Discretionary Housing Payments funding for English and Welsh Local Authorities, Performance Measurement HB annual programme 2021, Further use of HM Revenue & Customs’ real time Pay As You Earn earnings information, Reminder: Procurement of reporting accountants for the 2021 to 2022 HB Assurance Process, The NHS Learning Support Fund, New Self-Isolation Support Payment scheme (Wales only), HB decisions by the Upper Tribunal, New Legislation, What’s new on our HB pages on www.gov.uk and the Performance Measurement HB annual work programme for 2021 (separate Appendix A).
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Added LA Welfare Direct lite 11/20.
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Added LA Welfare Direct 11/20.
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Added LA Welfare Direct lite 10/20.
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Published LA Welfare Direct 10/20 with information on: Discretionary Housing Payments mid-year monitoring return for 2020 to 2021; an updated version and user instructions of the Personal Details Verification Report; reminder of how to return Housing Benefit Matching Service LA management information to DWP; the relaunch of the Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Initiative; changes to Local Authority Partnership, Engagement and Delivery division generic email addresses.
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Added LA Welfare Direct lite 9/20.
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Added LA Welfare Direct 9/20 with articles on: NHS Test and Trace self-isolation payment; additional earnings disregard payment for Housing Benefit claimants; Housing Benefit Award Accuracy relaunch: update and further all-LA telephone conferences; expressions of interest for local authority subsidy workshops in 2021; invite to local authorities on data sharing and IT issues consultation and engagement forum; student uprating 2020 to 2021; publication of debt management statistics; DWP secondment opportunities.
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Added LA Welfare Direct lite 8/20 and LA Welfare Direct lite 8/20 Appendix A: Severe Disability Premium – confirmation of payment in Housing Benefit.
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Added LA Welfare Direct 8/2020 with articles on: Two-week run-on of legacy benefits when moving to Universal Credit; Re-launch of the HB Award Accuracy Initiative on 5 October 2020; Shared Accommodation Rate: Clarification of the homeless exemption; Housing Benefit decisions with the Upper Tribunal; new legislation.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 7/2020.
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Added the LA Welfare Direct bulletin 6/2020 lite.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 6/2020.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 5/2020.
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Added LA Welfare Direct lite Bulletin 4/2020, including the Discretionary Housing Payments end of year monitoring form for 2019 to 2020.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 4/2020.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 3/2020.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 2/2020.
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