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How we're identifying benefit fraud and the penalties people could face for deliberately withholding information for their benefit claim.
A guide to the law relating to Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit including entitlement, changes in circumstances and how payments are made
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.
Guidance for lenders on taking part in the scheme to pay Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) direct to qualifying lenders.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Guidance for local councils on how to make sure the processing of Housing Benefit claims is accurate and secure.
Information about Housing Benefit speed of processing statistics methodology.
This factsheet explains how to ask us to consider certain types of income when working out child maintenance – 'applying for a variation'.
This factsheet is about investigating officers from the Child Maintenance Service.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining what happens to their benefit when earnings increase.
Information to help the family and friends of British nationals who have died in Singapore.
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.
Welsh language detailed information for claimants can be found using the Cymraeg link.
This RTI guide provides information on how this process works and helps local authority staff in the processing of RTI referrals.
This page lists the postcodes in Northern Ireland where Universal Credit is being introduced and the dates.
This document provides background information about the separated families statistics and information on how they are compiled.
Code of practice on getting information from listed organisations about their customers, to help deal with fraud against the benefit system.
DWP general terms and conditions of contract for the supply of goods (PS1) and services (PS2).
This release strategy acts as the formal notice of changes to future releases of the Family Resources Survey (FRS) publication.
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