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This document contains guidance for local authorities on processing claims for Housing Benefit.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
Information about how the data was used in the Google Public Data Explorer and access to the separate data files.
Work and Health Programme provider memos.
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.
Sample content for communications on the recent changes to Housing Benefit (removal of the spare room subsidy).
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.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit (HB) scheme.
An explanation for healthcare professionals of how DWP is reassessing incapacity benefits.
Loss of Benefit: High level process map.
New Loss of Benefit changes for claimant fraud - offences occurring wholly on or after 1 April 2013
Local authorities and jobcentre areas that began to deliver Universal Credit as part of national expansion during 2015 and 2016.
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