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These HB Direct newsletters for local authority staff provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
These HB Direct newsletters provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Information about how the data was used in the Google Public Data Explorer and access to the separate data files.
New Loss of Benefit changes for claimant fraud - offences occurring wholly on or after 1 April 2013
Loss of Benefit: High level process map.
Changes to the way benefits can be reduced or stopped as a penalty for a benefit fraud offence following the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
Guidelines on the use and interpretation of official statistics on children in out-of-work benefit households.
Sample content for communications on the recent changes to Housing Benefit (removal of the spare room subsidy).
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.
How DWP manages the release of Work and Health Programme statistics.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
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.
Information for all local authority staff about Universal Credit.
This note provides background information on the Work Choice programme and the statistics we publish on it.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit scheme.
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