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This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit (HB) scheme.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
A guide about who qualifies for Income Support, who you can claim for, how to claim and how payments are made.
A review of the Family Resources Survey weighting scheme.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
A summary of the quality of the statistics on National Insurance number allocations to adult overseas nationals.
This note provides information on the New Enterprise Allowance programme and the statistics we publish on it.
Information about how the data was used in the Google Public Data Explorer and access to the separate data files.
A user guide to the Pensioners’ Incomes data on Stat-Xplore.
Information about PIP statistics quality assurance of administrative data.
This information is for pension providers, administrators, trustees and scheme managers.
This challenge focuses on exploring means of enhancing pay progression of low paid workers through changing business practice to increase demand for higher skilled and higher paid work. This is a jointly funded competition r…
Guidance on estimating uncertainty in Family Resources Survey-based analysis.
Information for all local authority staff about Universal Credit.
Local authorities and jobcentre areas that began to deliver Universal Credit as part of national expansion during 2015 and 2016.
Information about sanctions statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of the statistics covered.
Information about Universal Credit statistics quality assurance of administrative data.
Statistical notice about a revision to postcode areas in claims made and starts to Universal Credit.
Information on the sources of the Universal Credit Work Capability Assessments (WCA) statistics and on their derivation.
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