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Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Loss of Benefit: High level process map.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
Information about the publication of Child Support Agency statistics.
This document provides information on the uses and users of the Child Maintenance Service statistics.
This guide is for people who have been authorised, nominated or commissioned to make or review Budgeting Loan decisions.
How DWP manages the release of Connect to Work statistics.
This document contains the following information: Collection of missing persons data: a code of practice.
Provides background information on the Access to Work programme and the statistics we publish on it.
Summary of evidence on work and health for GPs and other health professionals advising patients.
This report contains information on the Benefit Sanction statistics administrative data sources used by DWP, as well as quality assessments on each source.
Information about sanctions statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of the statistics covered.
These HB Direct newsletters provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
Users are invited to provide feedback on plans to change the Work Choice Official Statistics publication schedule.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
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