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It’s important that you understand what you must do to get your benefit payment and what will happen if you don’t do this.
Guidance on how government policy makers should apply the ‘family test’.
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.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit (HB) scheme.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
This procurement policy note provides information on how government suppliers can help support veterans and service spouses and partners.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining new rules from April 2013.
Information about sanctions statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of the statistics covered.
Notice about a revision to the people on Universal Credit figures, and the restoration of data on the durations of time spent by individuals on Universal Credit.
This factsheet is about investigating officers from the Child Maintenance Service.
Use this guidance to help you support clients with the Child Tax Credit changes from 6 April 2017, limiting the child element to 2 children.
This document contains a list of Armed Forces Covenants in the north east.
Information about Universal Credit trials and pilots
Loss of Benefit: DWP notification FPA7 and sample claimant letter.
A guide to the minimum quality criteria to be met by contractors supplying food and drink products for the UK armed forces worldwide.
Information about Housing Benefit speed of processing statistics methodology.
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