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

Documents

LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 7/2019 lite

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LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 7/2019

Ref: LAWD 7/2019, ISSN 2054-2836HTML

LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 6/2019

Ref: LAWD 6/2019, ISSN 2054-2836 HTML

LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 5/2019

Ref: LAWD 5/2019, ISSN 2054-2836HTML

LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 4/2019

Ref: LAWD 4/2018, ISSN 2054-2836 HTML

LA Welfare Direct 4/2019 Appendix A: Discretionary Housing Payments end of year monitoring return 2018 to 2019 [Excel]

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LA Welfare Direct 4/2019 Appendix A: Discretionary Housing Payments end of year monitoring return 2018 to 2019 [open document format]

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LA Welfare Direct lite 3/2019

Ref: LAW lite 3/2019 ISSN 2054-2836 (Online)HTML

LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 3/2019

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LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 2/2019

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Details

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.

Published 6 February 2019
Last updated 23 July 2019 + show all updates

  1. Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 7/2019 lite. This has information about: improvements to the Verify Earnings and Pensions Alerts service; improvements to the Third Party Deduction service; the removal of duplicate HB Stop notifications to LAs; the process for completing the MGP1(LA) for return to Universal Credit; new Universal Credit regulations and the ‘Move to UC’ pilot.
  2. Added LA Welfare Direct bulletin 7/2019.
  3. Added LA Welfare Direct bulletin 6/2019.
  4. Published HTML version of bulletin 5/2019.
  5. Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 5/2019.
  6. Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 4/2019, including the Discretionary Housing Payments end of year monitoring form for 2018 to 2019.
  7. Corrected the email address for sending form LA17 in paragraph 52 of LA Welfare Direct bulletin 3/2019.
  8. Added LA Welfare Direct lite 3/2019.
  9. Revised LAWD 2. Under the heading ‘Form LA 17’ – Jobseekers Allowance inbox email address should read [email protected]
  10. Added LA Welfare Direct bulletin 3/2019.
  11. Corrected email address in paragraph 41 for local authorities to send form LA17 to tell DWP about a change of circumstance or discrepancies in a Housing Benefit or Council Tax Reduction claim where the claimant is claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance.
  12. First published.