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These HB Direct newsletters for local authority staff provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
These HB Direct newsletters provided information that affected Housing Benefit.
Directions about electronic communications for benefits.
Information about how the data was used in the Google Public Data Explorer and access to the separate data files.
New Loss of Benefit changes for claimant fraud - offences occurring wholly on or after 1 April 2013
Loss of Benefit: High level process map.
This guide sets out what is required of contractors when delivering services to DWP customers in Wales.
Guidelines on the use and interpretation of official statistics on children in out-of-work benefit households.
Sample content for communications on the recent changes to Housing Benefit (removal of the spare room subsidy).
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.
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.
Urgent information for all local authority Housing Benefit staff.
Background information on Housing Benefit entitlement reductions statistics including what they cover and how they're measured.
This guidance is for local authorities. It explains the subsidies DWP pays them for certain costs of the Housing Benefit scheme.
This information was for all local authority Housing Benefit (HB) staff.
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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