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This page provides local authorities with information and guidance about all aspects of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) scheme.
An explanation of the process for reassessing incapacity benefits to help advisers and intermediaries support claimants.
Guidance for DWP decision makers – abbreviations used in the guide.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining what happens to their benefit when earnings increase.
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit guidance: Part D
This 'Workshop in a box' provides materials to run sessions that gather and share views for the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
A list of Housing Benefit circulars and the guidance manual chapters they relate to.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
A list of the benefit and pension rates from April 2013.
Policies and statements related to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA): outcomes of Work Capability Assessment statistics.
How you can help young people claim benefits.
Guidance for DWP decision makers on decision making and appeals.
Information about benefit cap statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of statistics covered.
Information about the Universal Credit statistics release strategy.
Good practice for local authority staff on recovering Housing Benefit overpayments.
Guidance for lenders on applying to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to recover loans from benefits paid to claimants.
Information about the methods and quality assurance steps used to produce the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistical release.
Guidance for local councils on how to make sure the processing of Housing Benefit claims is accurate and secure.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
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