Guidance

LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2023

These LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide information that affects Housing Benefit and other areas of DWP, to local authority staff.

Documents

LA Welfare Direct 12/2023

LA Welfare Direct 11/2023

LA Welfare Direct lite 10/2023

LA Welfare Direct 10/2023

LA Welfare Direct 9/2023

LA Welfare Direct 7/2023

LA Welfare Direct lite 6/2023

LA Welfare Direct 6/2023

LA Welfare Direct lite 5/2023

LA Welfare Direct 5/2023

LA Welfare Direct lite 4/2023

LA Welfare Direct 4/2023

LA Welfare Direct lite 2/2023

LA Welfare Direct 2/2023

LA Welfare Direct lite 1/2023

Details

LA Welfare Direct bulletins provide advice, guidance and information that affects Housing Benefit (HB) and other areas of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), including:

  • policy changes
  • good practice
  • reminders

These publications replace our HB Direct newsletters and General Information Bulletins.

Published 13 January 2023
Last updated 12 December 2023 + show all updates
  1. Added LAWD bulletin 12/2023.

  2. Added LA Welfare Direct 11/2023.

  3. Published LA Welfare Direct lite 10/2023.

  4. Added LA Welfare Direct 10/2023.

  5. Updated LA Welfare Direct 9/2023 appendix A: Performance Measurement: Updated Work Programme for HB for November 2023 to October 2024 (for May 2025 publication).

  6. Added LA Welfare Direct 9/2023 and appendix A.

  7. Removed the reference 'late September 2023' from paragraph 46 of the section on 'New Conversational Platform on UC telephony' in LA Welfare Direct bulletin 8/2023.

  8. Added LA Welfare Direct 8/2023.

  9. Added LA Welfare Direct 7/2023.

  10. Added LA Welfare Direct lite 6/2023.

  11. Added LA Welfare Direct 6/2023.

  12. Added LA Welfare Direct lite 5/2023.

  13. Added LA Welfare Direct 5/2023.

  14. Added LA Welfare Direct lite 4/2023

  15. Added LA Welfare Direct 4/2023

  16. Added LA Welfare Direct 2/2023.

  17. Added LA Welfare Direct Lite 2/2023.

  18. Added LA Welfare Direct 2/2023.

  19. First published.