LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2019
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.
Updates to this page
Published 6 February 2019Last updated 4 March 2024 + show all updates
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Updated LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 3/2019. In paragraph 19, reference to the Pension Credit helpline has been changed to the Pension Service. The telephone number remains the same.
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Added LA Welfare Direct 12/2019 lite with articles on: the National Fraud Initiative, treatment of payments made to people affect by the Grenfell Tower fire, treatment of payments from the National Emergencies Trust and sharing DWP customer data with local authority services.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 12/2019.
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Added 'LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 11/2019' and 'LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 2019 Appendix A: Final review of self-employed Housing Benefit claimants'.
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Added updated versions of LA Welfare Direct bulletin 10/2019 Appendix A: Discretionary Housing Payments end of year monitoring return 2019 to 2020.
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Added LA Welfare Direct lite 10/2019 with articles about support for refugees and the Young Carer Grant in Scotland
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 10/2019, including the Discretionary Housing Payments end of year monitoring form for 2019 to 2020.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 10/2019.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 9/2019. This has information about incorrect Housing Benefit debt recovery from debtor’s partner via Direct Earnings Attachment; accessing data via Searchlight; the Pension Strategy Computer System; the self-employed Earnings Review; the removal and improvements to Housing Benefit Matching Service rules; secondee opportunity in Housing Policy Division; updated Discretionary Housing Payment Guidance; Speed of Processing statistics; cases decided or awaiting decision by the Upper Tribunal; new legislation; what’s new on our Housing Benefit pages on GOV.UK
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 8/2019.
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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.
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Added LA Welfare Direct bulletin 7/2019.
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Added LA Welfare Direct bulletin 6/2019.
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Published HTML version of bulletin 5/2019.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 5/2019.
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Added LA Welfare Direct Bulletin 4/2019, including the Discretionary Housing Payments end of year monitoring form for 2018 to 2019.
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Corrected the email address for sending form LA17 in paragraph 52 of LA Welfare Direct bulletin 3/2019.
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Added LA Welfare Direct lite 3/2019.
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Revised LAWD 2. Under the heading 'Form LA 17' - Jobseekers Allowance inbox email address should read [email protected]
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Added LA Welfare Direct bulletin 3/2019.
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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.
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