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A suggested letter for local authorities to send to claimants affected by the removal of the spare room subsidy.
How to ask for an assessment to be recorded using the service provided or your own recording equipment – and the conditions that apply.
Access to Work provider memos.
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
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.
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 document contains guidance for local authorities on processing claims for Housing Benefit.
Guidance for local councils on how to make sure the processing of Housing Benefit claims is accurate and secure.
An explanation of the process for reassessing incapacity benefits to help advisers and intermediaries support claimants.
An explanation for healthcare professionals of how DWP is reassessing incapacity benefits.
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.
Information about Universal Credit trials and pilots
This report assesses the quality of the fraud and error in the benefit system statistics.
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