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Guidance for local authorities and their partners on how to work with troubled families.
Welsh language detailed information for claimants can be found using the Cymraeg link.
The process when a British national dies in Albania, including registering the death, funerals, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.
If you use British Sign Language, this adjustments planner can help you note the support you need to move into work or between jobs.
This factsheet explains how we adjust child maintenance payments when children live with different parents ('split care').
This document explains how we will end liabilities under the 1993 and 2003 child maintenance schemes.
Use this material to encourage people to claim Carer's Allowance online.
Loss of Benefit: DWP notification FPA7 and sample claimant letter.
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit providing advice on managing money, dealing with debts and help with paying rent.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Best practice to help local authorities minimise or avoid qualified audits of Housing Benefit subsidy claims.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
This guidance helps to explain why Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) covers some diseases (prescribed diseases) and not others.
Guidance for ILF users about employing a personal assistant.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
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