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These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
How we're identifying benefit fraud and the penalties people could face for deliberately withholding information for their benefit claim.
Information about the Work and Health Programme statistics.
Local authorities and DWP staff share actions they have taken to support claimaints that are affected by the benefit cap changes.
Information about benefit cap statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of statistics covered.
Use this material to encourage people to claim Carer's Allowance online.
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 report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
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 provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Background information on Housing Benefit entitlement reductions statistics including what they cover and how they're measured.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
An explanation for healthcare professionals of how DWP is reassessing incapacity benefits.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit (HB) scheme.
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