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This page lists all the latest additions to the Housing Benefit website.

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Date Title Description Section
10/02/12 HB Direct February 2012 (44KB) PDF Editorial. Automatic Transfers to Local Authority Systems (ATLAS) Phase 2. IRRV Benefits and Benefit Fraud Conference – Come and see us. LAs and the delivery of Universal Credit (UC). Universal Credit LA visiting programme. Communications from Housing Benefit Divisions. Performance update. HB Direct newsletter 2012
01/02/12 HB/CTB U1/2012 (28KB) PDF Debt Relief Orders and Overpayment recovery HBCTB Bulletins 2012
30/01/12 HB/CTB G1/2012 (30KB) PDF Direct payment of housing costs support. Sheltered Accommodation – we need your help. Statutory Instruments. What’s new on the web. HB/CTB circulars issued recently. HBCTB Bulletins 2012
19/01/12 Press release Councils and housing associations to test direct payments of housing cost support Newsroom
16/01/12 HB Direct 121 January 2012 (34KB) PDF Editorial. Automatic Transfers to Local Authority Systems (ATLAS) Phase 2. Housing Benefit for people in temporary accommodation. Update on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) 2011 reforms. Uprating LHA using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Single Fraud Investigation Service – update HB Direct newsletter 2012
06/01/12 HB/CTB A1/2012 (205KB) PDF Housing Benefit & Council Tax Benefit: 2012/13 uprating Adjudication and Operations Circular
22/12/11 HB/CTB A14/2011 (23KB) PDF Changes made to the use of the shared accommodation rate Adjudication and Operations Circular
22/12/11 HB/CTB U6/2011 (23KB) PDF Debt Relief Orders and Overpayment recovery HBCTB Bulletins 2011
19/12/11 HB/CTB A13/2011 (23KB) PDF Non-Citizens of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia Adjudication and Operations Circular
19/12/11 HB/CTB G10/2011 (33KB) PDF Gender Reassignment project. HB/CTB cases awaiting decision by the Upper Tribunal. Statutory Instruments. Latest update to the Fraud guide. What’s new on the web. HBCTB Bulletins 2011
07/12/11 HB Direct 120 December 2011 (28KB) PDF Who is Performance Measurement (PM)? Automatic Transfers to Local Authority Systems (ATLAS) phase 2. Overpayment calculations for joint benefit fraud investigations. Update on Local Housing Allowance reforms. Do you want to get involved? HB Direct newsletter 2011
28/11/11 Local Housing Allowance reforms 2011: good practice (145KB) PDF Local Housing Allowance reforms 2011: good practice Changes to the LHA arrangements from April 2011
23/11/11 HB/CTB G9/2011 (27KB) PDF Social Security information-sharing: draft regulations. Housing Benefit communications. What’s new on the web. HB/CTB circulars issued recently HBCTB Bulletins 2011
17/11/11 HB/CTB A12/2011 (Revised) (60KB) PDF Changes made to the use of the shared accommodation rate  Adjudication and Operations Circular
15/11/11 S10/2011 (Revised) (97KB) PDF Discretionary Housing Payments Government contribution for 2012/13 Subsidy Circulars
11/11/11 HB Direct November 2011 (40KB) PDF Migration to Universal Credit. Changes to Pension Credit from 2014. Single Fraud Investigation Service - update. Do you want to get involved? Supported Housing Consultation. Size Criteria in the Social Rented Sector. Update on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) reforms. Automatic Transfers to LA Systems (ATLAS) Phase 2. HB Direct newsletter 2011
10/11/11 HB/CTB S11/2011 (35KB) PDF Risk-Based Verification of HB/CTB Claims Guidance Subsidy Circulars