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Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Guidance for lenders on applying to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to recover loans from benefits paid to claimants.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
Information about the Work and Health Programme statistics.
Information about benefit cap statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of statistics covered.
Changes to the Work Capability Assessment reassessment criteria from 29 September 2017.
Guidance for local councils on how to make sure the processing of Housing Benefit claims is accurate and secure.
Information to support the Housing Benefit speed of processing statistical reports.
Best practice to help local authorities minimise or avoid qualified audits of Housing Benefit subsidy claims.
Information about the methods and quality assurance steps used to produce the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) statistical release.
Information about Universal Credit trials and pilots
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
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