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This leaflet explains the process for reviewing child maintenance cases every year and how it affects paying parents and receiving parents.
Background information and guidance on the benefit expenditure and caseload tables.
These easy read guides explain what a mandatory reconsideration is and when you can ask for one.
Information about Pension Credit and the closure of Tax Credits for people over State Pension age.
Information about sanctions statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of the statistics covered.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Guidance for DWP decision makers on decision making and appeals.
Good practice guidance from the Office of the Public Guardian and the Senior Courts Costs Office.
This guide provides ideas and good practice for all local authorities (LAs) on the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy.
This guidance is for DWP providers of the Work and Health Programme including WHP Pioneer.
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit guidance: Part D
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
Guidance on how government policy makers should apply the ‘family test’.
Information about War Widows or Widowers Pension Supplementary Allowances.
How to notify DWP to stop or restart deductions from benefits for fuel, water or rent arrears when a debtor starts or ends a ‘Breathing Space’.
This guidance explains the department's policy on providing information about customers to their representatives.
Information for prison leavers, work coaches and probation officers about Universal Credit.
This easy read guide explains who can apply for a State Pension and how to apply if you live outside the UK.
A brief graphical explanation of how low income is measured when producing households below average income statistics.
A guide to the Personal Independence Payment data on Stat-Xplore.
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