Guidance

LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2024

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

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
19 January 2024
Last updated
18 April 2024 — See all updates

Documents

LA Welfare Direct 4/2024

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LA Welfare Direct 4/2024 Appendix A: form LA17 LA notifying a change of circumstance or requesting confirmation of benefit award

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LA Welfare Direct 3/2024 Lite

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LA Welfare Direct 3/2024

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LA Welfare Direct 2/2024

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LA Welfare Direct 1/2024

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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 19 January 2024
Last updated 18 April 2024 + show all updates

  1. Added LA Welfare bulletin 4/2024. This has articles about: Change of tax year for Housing Benefit Matching Service self-assessment referrals; Improvements to the Housing Benefit Matching Service rule HBSA002; Local authority funding for DWP’s requirements provided by IT software suppliers; Memorandum of Understanding compliance audits; Clarification regarding the LA17 form and how to use; Update to enhancing the UC data available to Las; Invitation to all LAs to participate in the email solution for the Personal Independent Payment form PIP3007; Publication of refreshed HB Assurance Process modules for the financial year ending March 2024; Invitation to the next Data sharing and IT consultation and engagement forum; Help to Claim support from 1 April 2024; Latest update: Move to UC; Practitioners’ Operational Group and LA Welfare Steering Group; Secondment opportunities in LA-PED division; HB decisions by the Upper Tribunal; New Legislation; What’s new on our HB pages on GOV.UK; Update: LCTR data feed spring release.

  2. Added LA Welfare Direct 3/2024 Lite with information about: the recording of the move to Universal Credit LA conference call posted on Glasscubes; Have your say on our Pension Credit stakeholder toolkit; Housing Benefit Debt Recoveries statistics; Landlord Portal guidance.

  3. LA Welfare Direct 3/2024 bulletin added

  4. Corrected the link in paragraph 43 of LA Welfare Direct 2/2024 to the Housing Benefit speed of processing statistics.

  5. LA Welfare Direct 2/2024 has been added

  6. First published.

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