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Change description : 2025-09-30 11:28:00: Added ‘A11/2025’ Housing Benefit circulars affecting guidance manuals to BP1, BP2, BW1 and BW2. [Guidance and regulation]

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Guidance

Housing Benefit circulars affecting guidance manuals

A list of Housing Benefit circulars and the guidance manual chapters they relate to.

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Details

The Housing Benefit guidance manual is updated frequently through Housing Benefit ‘A circulars’. Please read any relevant circulars in conjunction with the guidance manual.

Updates to this page

Published 7 November 2013
Last updated 130 MaySeptember 2025 + show all updates
  1. Added reference to A3/2025 and A6/2025 HB circulars to ensure document is kept up to date.

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Update history

2025-10-06 12:09
Added A12/2025 to HB circulars affecting guidance manuals A3 and C4.

2025-09-30 11:28
Added ‘A11/2025’ Housing Benefit circulars affecting guidance manuals to BP1, BP2, BW1 and BW2.

2025-05-01 11:31
Added reference to A3/2025 and A6/2025 HB circulars to ensure document is kept up to date.

2025-03-28 15:42
Added reference to HB circular A5/2025 to HB guidance manual chapters it affects: eligible rent, calculating benefit and assessment of needs.

2025-02-28 12:14
Updated to include A4/2025 under A4, A5, BP3 and BW3.

2024-04-30 09:52
Added ‘A6/2024’ Housing Benefit circulars affecting guidance manuals to BP2 – Assessment of income and BW2 – Assessment of income.

2024-01-29 16:18
Added A1/2024 to BP1 and BW1: Assessment of capital, to ‘Housing Benefit circulars affecting guidance manuals’.

2023-12-21 14:19
Added ‘A8/2023’ to chapters A4 – Eligible rent, A5 – Calculating benefit and also BW3 – Assessment of needs to the list of Housing Benefit circulars affecting guidance manuals.

2023-11-24 12:36
Updated ‘Housing Benefit circulars affecting guidance manual’: Chapters A4, A5,BW1, BW2, BW3 and C4.

2023-11-02 14:42
Added ‘A7/2023’ to chapter C4 in the list of Housing Benefit circulars affecting guidance manuals.