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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.
Provides background information on the Access to Work programme and the statistics we publish on it.
Information about sanctions statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of the statistics covered.
Information about benefit cap statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of statistics covered.
These HB Direct newsletters provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
This report contains information on the Benefit Sanction statistics administrative data sources used by DWP, as well as quality assessments on each source.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
This release strategy acts as the formal notice of changes to future releases of the Access to Work official statistics publication.
An explanation of the methodology used in the benefit destinations of claimants who have been sanctioned statistics.
Local authorities and DWP staff share actions they have taken to support claimaints that are affected by the benefit cap changes.
Statistical notice about a new series of experimental Access to Work statistics.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
Information about PIP statistics quality assurance of administrative data.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit (HB) scheme.
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