Guidance

Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2015

Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
12 January 2015
Last updated
12 January 2016 鈥� See all updates

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

Ref: A13/2015

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Ref: A12/2015

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Ref: A12/2015: Appendix 3

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Ref: A11/2015

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Ref: A10/2015

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Ref: A9/2015

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Ref: A9/2015

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Ref: A8/2015

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Ref: A7/2015

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Ref: A6/2015

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Ref: A5/2015

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Ref: A4/2015

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Ref: A3/2015

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Ref: A2/2015

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Ref: A1/2015

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Details

Adjudication circulars provide advice, guidance and information on Housing Benefit to local authority staff. They update the Housing Benefit guidance manual.

The circulars make many references to Council Tax Benefit as this was administered by local authorities alongside Housing Benefit until March 2013. In April 2013 Council Tax Benefit was replaced by local authorities鈥� own council tax support and reduction schemes, removing DWP鈥檚 involvement.

Readers will need to consider references to Council Tax Benefit in these documents accordingly.

For enquiries about the distribution of circulars, email: [email protected].

Updates to this page

Published 12 January 2015
Last updated 12 January 2016 show all updates

  1. Replaced A13/2015 with revised version. Amended date in paragraph 7 and clarified the overpayment recovery rates.

  2. Added HB Circular A13/2015: Housing Benefit uprating for financial year 2016 to 17.

  3. Added HB Circular A12/2015: Process to get claimant Personal Independence Payment information not available using the Customer Information System.

  4. Added HB Circular A11/2015: Fraud and Error Reduction Incentive Scheme Incentive Payments: Clarity on the end of year adjustment (previously known as 鈥檉inal year adjustment鈥�).

  5. Added HB circular A9/2015: Discretionary Housing Payment guidance 2015 with attached appendix and A10/2015: April uprating - clarification of effective dates for Housing Benefit.

  6. Added HB circular A8/2015: European Economic Area right to reside 鈥� permanent residence status.

  7. First published.

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