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How to ask for an assessment to be recorded using the service provided or your own recording equipment – and the conditions that apply.
Information for personal injury claims managers about the 2008 Diffuse Mesothelioma Scheme and the recovery of lump sum payments.
A list of the benefit and pension rates from April 2013.
Good practice for local authority staff on recovering Housing Benefit overpayments.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
This document contains guidance for local authorities on processing claims for Housing Benefit.
Guidance for local councils on how to make sure the processing of Housing Benefit claims is accurate and secure.
Changes to the way benefits can be reduced or stopped as a penalty for a benefit fraud offence following the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
Universal Credit is now available everywhere in Great Britain.
Changes to the Work Capability Assessment reassessment criteria from 29 September 2017.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
Best practice to help local authorities minimise or avoid qualified audits of Housing Benefit subsidy claims.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining new rules from April 2013.
Code of practice on getting information from listed organisations about their customers, to help deal with fraud against the benefit system.
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