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Information about the Work and Health Programme statistics.
Access to Work provider memos.
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 report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
These HB Direct newsletters for local authority staff provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit scheme.
An explanation for healthcare professionals of how DWP is reassessing incapacity benefits.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
Changes to the way benefits can be reduced or stopped as a penalty for a benefit fraud offence following the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
New Loss of Benefit changes for claimant fraud - offences occurring wholly on or after 1 April 2013
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.
Information for all local authority staff about Universal Credit.
These HB Direct newsletters provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
An explanation of the methodology used in the benefit destinations of claimants who have been sanctioned statistics.
Local authorities and DWP staff share actions they have taken to support claimaints that are affected by the benefit cap changes.
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