LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2018
These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information, that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.
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LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide advice, guidance and information that affects Housing Benefit (HB) and other areas of DWP, including:
- policy changes
- good practice
- reminders
These publications replace our HB Direct newsletters and General Information Bulletins.
Last updated 3 December 2018 + show all updates
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 12/2018.
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Published LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 11/2018. This includes articles on: how DWP is publishing content on GOV.UK; Discretionary Housing Payment mid-year monitoring return 2018-19; supported housing; the Scottish Government’s Carer’s Allowance Supplement; the Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 36 on Discretionary Housing Payments; interim advice on exchanging emails with trusted partners.
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Published Local Authority Welfare Direct Bulletin 10/2018. This has articles on: phishing emails, the Verify Earnings and Pensions service, accessing data through CIS, LA Insight Survey wave 36, student uprating, a guide to new data matching tools, Housing Benefit decisions by the Upper Tribunal and new legislation.
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Corrected email address for Discretionary Housing Payment 2018/19 mid-year monitoring returns to dhp.monitoringinbox@dwp.gsi.gov.uk.
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Added DHP monitoring form 2018/19, which is LAWDB 9/2018 appendix A.
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First published.