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A list of the benefit and pension rates from April 2013.
Information about the methods and quality assurance steps used to produce the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistical release.
Best practice to help local authorities minimise or avoid qualified audits of Housing Benefit subsidy claims.
Information for personal injury claims managers about the 2008 Diffuse Mesothelioma Scheme and the recovery of lump sum payments.
Work and Health Programme provider memos.
Changes to the Work Capability Assessment reassessment criteria from 29 September 2017.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
This guide sets out what is required of contractors when delivering services to DWP customers in Wales.
Information about benefit cap statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of statistics covered.
Local authorities and jobcentre areas that began to deliver Universal Credit as part of national expansion during 2015 and 2016.
Universal Credit is now available everywhere in Great Britain.
How you can help young people claim benefits.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining new rules from April 2013.
An explanation for healthcare professionals of how DWP is reassessing incapacity benefits.
Information about Universal Credit trials and pilots
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
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.
How DWP manages the publication of fraud and error in the benefit system estimates.
Loss of Benefit: High level process map.
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