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Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit providing advice on managing money, dealing with debts and help with paying rent.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
This document contains guidance for local authorities on processing claims for Housing Benefit.
Best practice to help local authorities minimise or avoid qualified audits of Housing Benefit subsidy claims.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining new rules from April 2013.
Universal Credit is now available everywhere in Great Britain.
Information for personal injury claims managers about the 2008 Diffuse Mesothelioma Scheme and the recovery of lump sum payments.
Changes to the Work Capability Assessment reassessment criteria from 29 September 2017.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
Work and Health Programme provider memos.
How DWP manages the release of Work and Health Programme statistics.
Access to Work provider memos.
Information about benefit cap statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of statistics covered.
If you are a claimant from abroad this publication gives information on what the terms 'worker' and 'self-employed person' mean for the right to reside test.
How DWP manages the publication of fraud and error in the benefit system estimates.
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