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Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining what happens to their benefit when earnings increase.
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit guidance: Part C
Changes to the way benefits can be reduced or stopped as a penalty for a benefit fraud offence following the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
Guidance for DWP decision makers on decision making and appeals.
Links to websites providing help and support for young disabled people to find and stay in work.
Guidance for lenders on applying to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to recover loans from benefits paid to claimants.
Guidance for DWP decision makers – abbreviations used in the guide.
Code of practice on getting information from listed organisations about their customers, to help deal with fraud against the benefit system.
Good practice for local authority staff on recovering Housing Benefit overpayments.
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit guidance: Part D
Information about Universal Credit statistics methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of the statistics covered.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Information about the Work and Health Programme statistics.
Guidance for local councils on how to make sure the processing of Housing Benefit claims is accurate and secure.
A suggested letter for local authorities to send to claimants affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy.
Access to Work provider memos.
How we're identifying benefit fraud and the penalties people could face for deliberately withholding information for their benefit claim.
Information about the methods and quality assurance steps used to produce the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistical release.
Information about the Universal Credit statistics release strategy.
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