LA Welfare Direct bulletins: 2026
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
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Added LA Welfare Direct 2/2026 with articles on: the Pension Strategy Computer System Application Programming Interface uprating solution; the all LA HB Award Accuracy Initiative conference call on 5 March 2026; publication of HB speed of processing statistics for July 2025 to September 2025; Practitioners’ Operational Group and Local Authority Welfare Steering Group.
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First published.
Update history
2026-02-03 16:11
Added LA Welfare Direct 2/2026 with articles on: the Pension Strategy Computer System Application Programming Interface uprating solution; the all LA HB Award Accuracy Initiative conference call on 5 March 2026; publication of HB speed of processing statistics for July 2025 to September 2025; Practitioners’ Operational Group and Local Authority Welfare Steering Group.
2026-01-30 16:08
First published.