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Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
These HB Direct newsletters provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
Background information on Housing Benefit debt recoveries data.
Our stakeholder bulletin had news and policy information for chief executives and others in national stakeholder organisations.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
Background information on the Employment Schemes statistics published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Statistical notice about changes in the DWP Households Below Average Income and Pensioners’ Incomes Series statistics publications.
Guidance for local authorities and their partners on how to work with troubled families.
Information about the sources DWP uses for earnings data and a description of how the survey complements these sources.
Technical note and questions and answers about early caseload estimates for working age inactive benefit client groups.
Information about how the data was used in the Google Public Data Explorer and access to the separate data files.
Advice on approaches to managing common health problems in the workplace.
New Loss of Benefit changes for claimant fraud - offences occurring wholly on or after 1 April 2013
Loss of Benefit: High level process map.
This document contains the following information: International tropical timber agreement, 2006: Geneva, 27 January 2006
Changes to the way benefits can be reduced or stopped as a penalty for a benefit fraud offence following the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
Information for GPs about health and work policy and projects.
An explanation for healthcare professionals of how DWP is reassessing incapacity benefits.
Information for healthcare professional about medical education and other resources related to health and work.
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
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