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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.
Information for all local authority staff about Universal Credit.
Code of practice on getting information from listed organisations about their customers, to help deal with fraud against the benefit system.
These HB Direct newsletters for local authority staff provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Information about the Work and Health Programme statistics.
This note provides background information on the Work Choice programme and the statistics we publish on it.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
How DWP manages the publication of fraud and error in the benefit system estimates.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit scheme.
Background information on Housing Benefit entitlement reductions statistics including what they cover and how they're measured.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
Information about benefit cap statistics and methodology including the purpose, source, definitions and limitations of statistics covered.
This statistical notice is about a revision to the number of claims made to Universal Credit between 13 January and 14 September 2017.
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