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Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
An explanation of the process for reassessing incapacity benefits to help advisers and intermediaries support claimants.
Universal Credit is now available everywhere in Great Britain.
Work and Health Programme provider memos.
Information for personal injury claims managers about the 2008 Diffuse Mesothelioma Scheme and the recovery of lump sum payments.
Information about Universal Credit trials and pilots
Loss of Benefit: DWP notification FPA7 and sample claimant letter.
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
Information to support the Housing Benefit speed of processing statistical reports.
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.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining new rules from April 2013.
Local authorities and jobcentre areas that began to deliver Universal Credit as part of national expansion during 2015 and 2016.
An explanation of the methodology used in the benefit destinations of claimants who have been sanctioned statistics.
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