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Information to support the Housing Benefit speed of processing statistical reports.
Factsheet for claimants of Housing Benefit explaining new rules from April 2013.
Local authorities and jobcentre areas that began to deliver Universal Credit as part of national expansion during 2015 and 2016.
Use this material to encourage people to claim Carer's Allowance online.
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
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.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
Changes to the way benefits can be reduced or stopped as a penalty for a benefit fraud offence following the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
Information about how the data was used in the Google Public Data Explorer and access to the separate data files.
How we're identifying benefit fraud and the penalties people could face for deliberately withholding information for their benefit claim.
Work and Health Programme provider memos.
How DWP manages the release of Work and Health Programme statistics.
This note provides background information on the Work Choice programme and the statistics we publish on it.
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.
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.
This guide sets out what is required of contractors when delivering services to DWP customers in Wales.
Guidance for local authorities on subsidies DWP pays for certain costs of the Housing Benefit (HB) and Council Tax Benefit (CTB) schemes.
These HB Direct newsletters for local authority staff provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
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