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LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2026

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

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published:
30 January 2026
Last updated:
29 September 2026
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  1. Added "LA Welfare Direct 9/2026".

  2. Added LA Welfare Direct 8/2026 lite.

  3. Added latest LA Welfare Direct bulletin (LAWD8/2026).

  4. Added LA Welfare Direct 7/2026.

  5. Added LA Welfare Direct 6/2026.

  6. Added LA Welfare Direct 5 / 2026.

  7. Added LA Welfare Direct 4/2026.

  8. Added LA Welfare Direct 3/2026.

  9. Added LA Welfare Direct 2/2026 with articles on: the Pension Strategy Computer System Application Programming Interface uprating solution; the all LA HB Award Accuracy Initiative conference call on 5 March 2026; publication of HB speed of processing statistics for July 2025 to September 2025; Practitioners’ Operational Group and Local Authority Welfare Steering Group.

  10. First published.

Documents

LA Welfare Direct 9/2026

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836

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LA Welfare Direct 8/2026 lite

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836 (Online)

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LA Welfare Direct 8/2026

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836

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LA Welfare Direct 7/2026

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836

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LA Welfare Direct 6/2026

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836

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LA Welfare Direct 5/2026

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836

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LA Welfare Direct 4/2026

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836

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LA Welfare Direct 3/2026

Ref: ISSN: 2054-2836

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LA Welfare Direct 2/2026

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836

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LA Welfare Direct 1/2026

Ref: ISSN 2054-2836

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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.

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