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Find out about tax credits, who is eligible and how to claim.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Information for all local authority staff about Universal Credit.
This note provides information on the New Enterprise Allowance programme and the statistics we publish on it.
This statistical notice is about changes to the fraud and error in the benefit system publication
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit (HB) scheme.
These HB Direct newsletters provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
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.
This documents explains the arrangements between the Welsh Government and DWP on applying Welsh rates of Income Tax for benefit claims.
Information about the Support for Mortgage Interest statistics.
Statistical notice about an intended change to the employment indicator published as part of the People on Universal Credit figures from November 2019 onwards.
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.
Statistical notice about the withdrawal of the first publication in the estimates of the separated family population experimental statistics series.
Confirmed and proposed developments for the Move to Universal Credit Official Statistics.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented his Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 to Parliament on 27 October. This bulletin focuses on areas in which GAD advises.
These HB Direct newsletters for local authority staff provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
This note provides background information on the Work Choice programme and the statistics we publish on it.
Monthly update for employers - information about Jobcentre Plus services, support for businesses and latest news.
Statistical notice about a revision to postcode areas in claims made and starts to Universal Credit.
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