Provider memo 79: WHP Signposting Referrals
Updated 4 April 2024
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To: Work and Health Programme Providers
From: Work and Health Programme Operational Policy Team
Subject: WHP Signposting Referrals
Action: For information and action
Timing: Immediate
Background
The Work and Health Programme (WHP) including WHP Pioneer is publicly funded provision. Therefore, participants, as well having the right to live and work in the UK, must also have recourse to public funds.
If a participant has “no recourse to public funds” they will not be eligible for WHP or WHP Pioneer. You should therefore check this during basic eligibility checks.
Summary and action
If the participant does not have a British Birth Certificate or British Passport, their visa or biometric residence permit must be checked to establish that they have recourse to public funds.
Please note: You should not keep copies of identification for example passports, birth certificates you should only note the reference/serial number of these documents and hand them back.
Further information contact details
If you have any queries about this memo, please consult your Performance Manager in the first instance or contact the following inbox: WHP.ENQUIRIES@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK