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.
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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.
Updates to this page
Last updated
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Added LA Welfare Direct 8/2024.
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Added LA Welfare Direct 7/2024 lite.
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Added LA Welfare Direct 6/2024 lite with information about Infected Blood Interim Compensation Payments.
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Added LA Welfare Direct 6/2024 to the page.
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Added LA Welfare Direct bulletin 5/2024 with articles on: (1) An update on Housing Benefit Matching Service rules; (2) Changes to front end local authority IT systems to enable accurate recording of Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Initiative management information; (3) Urgent reminder on Memorandum of Understanding compliance audit pre-audit questionnaire deadline; (4) Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession; (5) User research opportunity: Appointees completing Personal Independence Payment forms; (6) Rent Simplification and Support – Proof of Concept; (7) Publication of Housing Benefit speed of processing statistics for October 2023 to December 2023; (8) Latest update on Move to Universal Credit; (9) Practitioners’ Operational Group and Local Authority Welfare Steering Group; (10) Housing Benefit Decisions by the Upper Tribunal; (11) New Legislation; (12) What’s new on our Housing Benefit pages on GOV.UK.
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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.
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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.
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LA Welfare Direct 3/2024 bulletin added
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Corrected the link in paragraph 43 of LA Welfare Direct 2/2024 to the Housing Benefit speed of processing statistics.
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LA Welfare Direct 2/2024 has been added
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First published.
Update history
2024-11-19 15:45
Published LA Welfare Direct 11/24.
2024-10-07 15:57
Added LAWD bulletins 9/2024 and 10/2024.
2024-08-27 12:57
LA Welfare Direct 8/2024 Lite added.
2024-08-13 10:13
Added LA Welfare Direct 8/2024.
2024-07-18 08:43
Added LA Welfare Direct 7/2024 lite.
2024-07-11 14:10
Added LA Welfare Direct 6/2024 lite with information about Infected Blood Interim Compensation Payments.
2024-06-06 13:51
Added LA Welfare Direct 6/2024 to the page.
2024-05-08 17:05
Added LA Welfare Direct bulletin 5/2024 with articles on: (1) An update on Housing Benefit Matching Service rules; (2) Changes to front end local authority IT systems to enable accurate recording of Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Initiative management information; (3) Urgent reminder on Memorandum of Understanding compliance audit pre-audit questionnaire deadline; (4) Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession; (5) User research opportunity: Appointees completing Personal Independence Payment forms; (6) Rent Simplification and Support – Proof of Concept; (7) Publication of Housing Benefit speed of processing statistics for October 2023 to December 2023; (8) Latest update on Move to Universal Credit; (9) Practitioners’ Operational Group and Local Authority Welfare Steering Group; (10) Housing Benefit Decisions by the Upper Tribunal; (11) New Legislation; (12) What’s new on our Housing Benefit pages on GOV.UK.
2024-04-18 07:49
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.
2024-03-20 18:01
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.
2024-03-11 13:44
LA Welfare Direct 3/2024 bulletin added
2024-02-14 07:55
Corrected the link in paragraph 43 of LA Welfare Direct 2/2024 to the Housing Benefit speed of processing statistics.
2024-02-09 11:02
LA Welfare Direct 2/2024 has been added
2024-01-19 08:39
First published.