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Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining what happens to their benefit when earnings increase.
Work and Health Programme provider memos.
Local authorities and jobcentre areas that began to deliver Universal Credit as part of national expansion during 2015 and 2016.
A suggested letter for local authorities to send to claimants affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit providing advice on managing money, dealing with debts and help with paying rent.
A list of the benefit and pension rates from April 2013.
Loss of Benefit: DWP notification FPA7 and sample claimant letter.
Information about Universal Credit statistics methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of the statistics covered.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining new rules from April 2013.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Best practice to help local authorities minimise or avoid qualified audits of Housing Benefit subsidy claims.
Changes to the Work Capability Assessment reassessment criteria from 29 September 2017.
Access to Work provider memos.
Information about Universal Credit trials and pilots
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Guidance for lenders on applying to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to recover loans from benefits paid to claimants.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
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