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Guidance for healthcare professionals who issue form MAT B1 to verify a pregnancy and confirm the expected week of confinement.
These easy read guides explain what Carer’s Allowance is and how you can apply for it.
This easy read guide explains how you can get help from Pension Credit and how to claim it.
A guide to the law relating to Child Benefit and Guardian's Allowance. It is presented in 12 main sections, which generally reflect the order of the relevant acts and regulations.
Guidance for new creditors, for example, utility suppliers and landlords, on how to apply for deductions from a claimant's ESA, JSA, Income Support and Pension Credit.
This guidance is for local authorities in England and Wales who are responsible for administering Discretionary Housing Payments.
This information is for local authority staff who process claims and administer Housing Benefit, including Local Housing Allowance.
This report provides quality assessments of the data sources used in the Family Resources Survey. It considers the data from collection, processing and analysis, to publication.
How to contact DWP partnership teams for England, Scotland and Wales.
This guidance explains the rights of European Economic Area (EEA) and Swiss citizens to UK benefits and pensions.
A brief graphical explanation of how low income is measured when producing households below average income statistics.
Urgent actions refugees need to do to claim Universal Credit and other benefits, once they have been given refugee status.
How to ask ICE for help if you have difficulties dealing with them because of a disability or health condition.
Guidance for DWP decision makers on decision making and appeals.
Guidance on how to resolve landlord queries about Universal Credit. It includes links to online information, and telephone numbers for specialist support.
How defined contribution pension freedoms could affect your entitlement to social security benefits.
Guidance and materials for the survey of adult carers in England (SACE) 2025 to 2026 survey year.
Medical guidance for DWP staff who make decisions on adult cases for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and for Attendance Allowance (AA).
A series of example letters sent to DLA claimants to invite them to start a claim for Personal Independence Payment.
The statistical work programme outlines developments to releases of DWP Official Statistics.
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