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This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
Advertisement to be used in print publications to publicise new rules for Housing Benefit.
Sample content for communications on the recent changes to Housing Benefit (removal of the spare room subsidy).
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.
Information about how the data was used in the Google Public Data Explorer and access to the separate data files.
Code of practice on getting information from listed organisations about their customers, to help deal with fraud against the benefit system.
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.
This statistical notice is about a revision to the number of claims made to Universal Credit between 13 January and 14 September 2017.
This note provides background information on the Work Choice programme and the statistics we publish on it.
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.
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