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Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
Subsidy circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
An explanation of the process for reassessing incapacity benefits to help advisers and intermediaries support claimants.
Code of practice on getting information from listed organisations about their customers, to help deal with fraud against the benefit system.
Information about the Universal Credit statistics release strategy.
This document contains guidance for local authorities on processing claims for Housing Benefit.
Best practice to help local authorities minimise or avoid qualified audits of Housing Benefit subsidy claims.
An explanation for healthcare professionals of how DWP is reassessing incapacity benefits.
Access to Work provider memos.
Local authorities and DWP staff share actions they have taken to support claimaints that are affected by the benefit cap changes.
An explanation of the methodology used in the benefit destinations of claimants who have been sanctioned statistics.
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.
Changes to the Work Capability Assessment reassessment criteria from 29 September 2017.
Policies and statements related to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA): outcomes of Work Capability Assessment statistics.
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
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