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Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletters

These Universal Credit newsletters are published quarterly and provide information to social and private landlords about Universal Credit.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 4 July 2018
• Last updated: 20 January 2025
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  1. 20 January 2025

     August 2019 newsletter: removed third party payments contact centre phone number and replaced it with the email address.

  2. 1 April 2020

     Updated the content in Section 5 – Third Party Payments Schedules (of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) newsletter) as DWP are currently unable to action requests to change the method of delivery of payment schedules to an electronic format.

  3. 27 March 2020

     Added Coronavirus (COVID-19) Universal Credit Landlord Engagement Newsletter. English and Welsh version.

  4. 3 February 2020

     Added the Universal Credit: landlord engagement newsletter - January 2020.

  5. 29 August 2019

     Added the Universal Credit: landlord engagement newsletter - August 2019.

  6. 5 June 2019

     Updated the May 2019 newsletter to explain that the Universal Credit housing costs and disclosure guide for landlords has been removed from GOV.UK to correct some out of date content.

  7. 28 May 2019

     Added the latest Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletter (May 2019).

  8. 19 February 2019

     February Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletter added.

  9. 28 January 2019

     Removed information relating to the 53 week year and Universal Credit from the October 2018 landlord engagement newsletter.

  10. 1 November 2018

      October Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletter added.

  11. 6 July 2018

      Added Welsh Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletters.

  12. 4 July 2018

      First published.

Documents

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Universal Credit Landlord Engagement Newsletter

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January 2020: Universal Credit landlord engagement letter

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August 2019: Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletter

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May 2019: Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletter

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February 2019: Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletter

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October 2018: Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletter

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June 2018: Universal Credit landlord engagement newsletter

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Social Rented Sector - Universal Credit live service to full service transfers

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Details

If there is anything you would like to see in future editions of this newsletter, let your strategic landlord representative know.

If you don’t have a strategic landlord representative, email: uc.strategiclandlordengagement@dwp.gov.uk

Newsletters prior to June 2018 are also available by email: uc.strategiclandlordengagement@dwp.gov.uk