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Sample content for communications on the recent changes to Housing Benefit (removal of the spare room subsidy).
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
This document contains guidance for local authorities on processing claims for Housing Benefit.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit (HB) scheme.
An explanation of the process for reassessing incapacity benefits to help advisers and intermediaries support claimants.
A guide about who qualifies for Income Support, who you can claim for, how to claim and how payments are made.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
Confirmed and proposed developments for the Move to Universal Credit Official Statistics.
How learning providers can help Jobcentre Plus and employers fill job vacancies more efficiently through Sector-based work academy programmes.
Guidance for clinicians regarding the information they are required to provide on a customer's condition, as part of the Severe Disability Group test.
Information about the Universal Credit statistics release strategy.
A summary of good practices and advice for landlords who have tenants on Universal Credit.
Information about the methodology and quality assurance steps used to produce the Universal Credit Work Capability Assessments (WCA) statistical releases.
This release strategy acts as the formal notice of the confirmed and proposed developments for Universal Credit Work Capability Assessment (UC WCA) Official Statistics.
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