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This page provides local authorities with information and guidance about all aspects of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) scheme.
An explanation of the process for reassessing incapacity benefits to help advisers and intermediaries support claimants.
This easy read guide explains who can apply for a State Pension and how to apply if you live outside the UK.
Guidance for DWP decision makers – abbreviations used in the guide.
The process when a British national dies in Albania, including registering the death, funerals, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining what happens to their benefit when earnings increase.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit guidance: Part D
A list of dates for friends and family of service personnel wishing to send British Forces Post Office mail in time for Christmas.
Guidance for DWP decision makers on decision making and appeals.
This report provides quality assessments of the data sources used in the Family Resources Survey. It considers the data from collection, processing and analysis, to publication.
British and Irish citizens and people with valid immigration status escaping the violence in Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Lebanon can claim benefits from the day they arrive in the UK.
How tax credits debt is affected by the move to Universal Credit and what claimants may need to do.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Official statistics on the number of children living in low income families.
This 'Workshop in a box' provides materials to run sessions that gather and share views for the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
A list of Housing Benefit circulars and the guidance manual chapters they relate to.
Policies and statements for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits statistical summaries.
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