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How DWP manages the publication of fraud and error in the benefit system estimates.
Code of Practice on obtaining information from listed organisations to help tackle fraud in the benefit system.
From 22 July 2025, the Department for Work and Pensions is no longer counting miscarriage of justice compensation as capital and income when calculating means-tested benefits.
Information and guidance on how to apply for Clothing Allowance.
If you lived abroad between 6 April 2010 and 5 April 2020 and feel adversely affected, due to when you first received notification on the removal of an ADI, you may be eligible for compensation.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
A guide about who qualifies for Income Support, who you can claim for, how to claim and how payments are made.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
This guide is for people who have been authorised, nominated or commissioned to make or review Budgeting Loan decisions.
This report contains information on the Benefit Sanction statistics administrative data sources used by DWP, as well as quality assessments on each source.
An explanation of the methodology used in the benefit destinations of claimants who have been sanctioned statistics.
Banks and other financial institutions must share limited information with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) when they receive an Eligibility Verification Notice. This helps identify incorrect benefit payments, and …
This release strategy acts as the formal notice of changes to future releases of the Access to Work official statistics publication.
How DWP manages the publication of unfulfilled eligibility in the benefit system estimates.
Statistical notice about changes in the income-related benefits: estimates of take-up 2017 to 2018 publication.
Statistical notice about changes to the way DWP will publish statistics about benefit underpayments and how it will classify cases which fail to provide evidence.
This statistical notice is about changes to the fraud and error in the benefit system publication
This documents explains the arrangements between the Welsh Government and DWP on applying Welsh rates of Income Tax for benefit claims.
Statistical notice about changes to the fraud and error in the benefit system: financial year 2019 to 2020 estimates publication.
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