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It’s important you understand what you must do to get your benefit payment and what will happen if you don’t do this.
Information about the Move to Universal Credit official experimental statistics.
Good practice guidance from the Office of the Public Guardian and the Senior Courts Costs Office
This guidance explains the department's policy on providing information about customers to their representatives.
A list of benefit and pension rates from April 2016. Most rates change in April every year.
Find out which businesses have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and what they are pledging to do to support you and your family.
This guide provides ideas and good practice for all local authorities (LAs) on the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy.
Guidance for DWP decision makers on decision making and appeals.
A user guide to the Universal Credit Official Statistics on Stat-Xplore.
This document contains a list of Armed Forces Covenants in the north east.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining what happens to their benefit when earnings increase.
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit guidance: Part D
This staff guidance explains the social security coordination arrangements between the UK and the EU under the EU Withdrawal Agreement.
This document contains a list of Armed Forces Covenants in Wales.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
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