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Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Access to Work provider memos.
A Sure Start Maternity Grant can help with the costs of having a child. These easy read guides explain how it works, who can apply and how to apply.
How to ask for a further, independent review of a Budgeting Loan decision if you’re still unhappy after Jobcentre Plus have reviewed it.
A guide to how social security benefits and lump sum payments can affect your award of compensation.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
A Budgeting Loan is to help pay for essential things or services. These easy read guides explain how they work, who can apply and how to apply.
Information for Compensation Recovery Unit customers including compensators and their representatives and personal injury claims managers.
This guidance provides support for local authorities with their decision-making for processing Housing Benefit claims from individuals living in supported housing.
A list of benefit and pension rates from April 2016. Most rates change in April every year.
This leaflet explains the process for reviewing child maintenance cases every year and how it affects paying parents and receiving parents.
How to apply for a special payment if you claimed Income Support because of a disability or health condition instead of Employment and Support Allowance.
A user guide to the Universal Credit Official Statistics on Stat-Xplore.
Urgent actions refugees need to do to claim Universal Credit and other benefits, once they have been given refugee status.
Good practice guidance from the Office of the Public Guardian and the Senior Courts Costs Office.
Guidance for lenders on applying to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to recover loans from benefits paid to claimants.
This easy read guide explains who can apply for a State Pension and how to apply if you live outside the UK.
This guidance will help you in conversations with claimants who may be affected by the Universal Credit 2 child policy before April 2026.
This planner can help students with a disability or health condition identify adjustments needed to help them progress in higher education or start work.
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