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Changes to the Work Capability Assessment reassessment criteria from 29 September 2017.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Best practice to help local authorities minimise or avoid qualified audits of Housing Benefit subsidy claims.
Code of practice on getting information from listed organisations about their customers, to help deal with fraud against the benefit system.
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.
This document contains guidance for local authorities on processing claims for Housing Benefit.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit scheme.
An explanation of the process for reassessing incapacity benefits to help advisers and intermediaries support claimants.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining new rules from April 2013.
How we're identifying benefit fraud and the penalties people could face for deliberately withholding information for their benefit claim.
Local authorities and jobcentre areas that began to deliver Universal Credit as part of national expansion during 2015 and 2016.
Information about the Universal Credit statistics release strategy.
Universal Credit is now available everywhere in Great Britain.
Work and Health Programme provider memos.
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