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Decision Makers' Guide

The current amendment package is February 2010 which affected Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14.
The DMG will next be amended in June 2010 and thereafter every four months.

[The actual amendment packages are also available electronically. These consist of a covering sheet giving details of the changes and the Chapters affected, plus the amended pages. These packages, which are in Adobe Acrobat format, are designed for printing and incorporation into your hard copy. Blank pages have been inserted into the packages to assist with double-sided printing.

Contents

What's new
Letters and Memos
Abbreviations
Statutes
Statutory Instruments

Volume 1 – Decision Making and Appeals
Volume 2 – International Subjects
Volume 3 – Subjects Common to all Benefits
Volume 4 – Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support
Volume 5 – Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support
Volume 6 – Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support
Volume 7 – Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support
Volume 8 – Employment and Support Allowance
Volume 9 – Employment and Support Allowance
Volume 10 – Benefits for Incapacity, Disability, Maternity and Bereavement
Volume 11 – Industrial Injuries Benefits
Volume 12 – Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pension
Volume 13 – State Pension Credit
Volume 14 – State Pension Credit

What's new

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19/03/10 - Memo DMG 16/10: ESA and Incapacity for Work Appeal (30KB)

18/0310 - Decision Makers Guide: February Amendment Package

18/03/10 - Memo DMG 15/10: Applications for Credits for Parents and Carers (10KB)

18/03/10 - Memo DMG 14/10: MA and CA – Abolition of Adult Dependency Increases (15KB)

18/03/10 - Memo DMG 11/10: DMG General Memo (15KB)

12/03/10 - Memo DMG 13/10: Attendance of Presenting Officers at First-Tier Tribunal Hearings (25KB)

10/03/10 - Memo DMG 12/10: IS/JSA - Breach of Community Sentence (35KB)

09/03/10 - Memo DMG 10/10: Citing Upper Tribunal Decisions in Appeal Responses (60KB)

03/03/10 - Memo DMG 09/10: Maximum Additional Pension (10KB)

25/02/10 - Memo DMG 08/10: The Full Disregard of Child Maintenance and Treatment of Liable Relative Payments - JSA, IS and ESA (30KB)

18/02/10 - Memo DMG 07/10: ESA awarded following ESA appeal (40KB)

17/02/10 - Memo DMG 6/10: Claims and Payments - Date of Payment and Pay Days - RP and SPC (100KB)

Letters and Memos

DMA General Bulletins

There are currently no live DMA Bulletins

DMG Memos 2007 onwards

Pre-2007 DMG memos - JSA/IS

Pre-2007 DMG memos - SPC

53 SPC - Housing Costs - Service Charges (42KB)

Abbreviations

Abbreviations (34KB)

Statutes

Statues (21KB)

Statutory Instruments

Statutory Instruments (33KB)

Volume 1 – Decision Making and Appeals

Volume 1 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (1.8MB)

Chapter 01 – Principles of decision making and evidence (214KB)
Chapter 02 – Claims and applications (387KB)
Chapter 03 – Revision (167KB)
Chapter 04 – Supersession, suspension and termination (349KB)
Chapter 05 – Work-focused interviews (505KB)
Chapter 06 – Making appeals and staying (282KB)
Volume 1 – Annexes A–M (105KB)

Amendments

Volume 2 – International Subjects

Volume 2 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (2.1MB)

Chapter 7

Part 1 Common Subjects [070000 - 070899] (321KB)
Part 2 AA/DLA/CA to Dependency Increases [070900 - 071179] (81KB)
Part 3 Habitual Residence & Right to Reside IS/JSA/SPC[071180 - 071379] (107KB)
Part 4 Incapacity Benefit to Industrial Injuries Benefit[071380 - 072129] (256KB)
Part 5 JSA to Retirement Pension[072130 - 072959] (328KB)
Part 6 SDA, SPC, WB/Bereavement Benefit and Winter Fuel Payments [072960 - 073259] (123KB)
Part 7 Offshore Workers & Her Majesty's Forces[073260 - 079999] (52KB)
Annex 1 (392KB)
Annex 2 (130KB)
Annex 3 (158KB)

Amendments

Volume 3 – Subjects Common to all Benefits

Volume 3 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (2.2MB)

Chapter 08 – Payment of benefit/Deductions from benefit (142KB)
Chapter 09 – Overpayments, offsets and recoverability (389KB)
Chapter 10 – Evidence of age, marriage and death (371KB)
Chapter 11 – Living together as husband and wife or as civil partners (88KB)
Chapter 12 – Imprisonment (57KB)
Chapter 13 – Incapacity for work (258KB)
Chapter 14 – Welfare to Work (221KB)
Chapter 15 – Earnings (540KB)
Chapter 16 – Dependency increases (333KB)
Chapter 17 – Overlapping benefits (133KB)
Chapter 18 – Hospital In-Patients (100KB)
Chapter 19 – This chapter is spare

Amendments

Volume 4 – Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support

Volume 4 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (2.1MB)

Chapter 20 – JSA and IS - conditions of entitlement (528KB)
Chapter 21 – JSA - Labour market questions (647KB)
Chapter 22 – Membership of the family (80KB)
Chapter 23 – Normal amount payable (595KB)
Chapter 24 – Special cases (734KB)

Amendments

Volume 5 – Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support

Volume 5 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (2MB)

Chapter 25 – General rules on income (89KB)
Chapter 26 – Employed earners (449KB)
Chapter 27 – Self-employed earners and share fishermen (404KB)
Chapter 28 – Income other than earnings (606KB)
Chapter 29 – Capital (568KB)

Amendments

Volume 6 – Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support

Volume 6 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (2.1MB)

Chapter 30 – Students, young claimants and their partners (458KB)
Chapter 31 – Urgent case payments (214KB)
Chapter 32 – Trade disputes (238KB)
Chapter 33 – Payment questions (367KB)
Chapter 34 – Sanctions (606KB)
Chapter 35 – Hardship (390KB)

Amendments

Volume 7 – Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support

Volume 7 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (897KB)

Chapter 36 – Transitional protection from Supp B to IS and Supp B to IS to JSA(IB) (116KB)
Chapter 37 – Transitional protection from UB and IS to JSA (368KB)
Chapter 38 – This chapter is spare
Chapter 39 – Social Fund payments (273KB)
Chapter 40 – Child maintenance bonus (151KB)

Amendments

Volume 8 – Employment and Support Allowance

Chapter 41 – ESA conditions of entitlement (316KB)
Chapter 42 – Limited Capability for Work and Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity (201KB)
Chapter 43 – Membership of the household (84KB)
Chapter 44 – Normal amount payable & Components (611KB)
Chapter 45 – Advance awards of ESA(IR), transitional issues and migration (41KB)
Chapter 46 – ESA - Payment questions (305KB)
Chapter 47 – This Chapter is spare

Amendments

Volume 8 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (1.5MB)
Amendment 1 – February 2009 (240KB)
Amendment 2 – June 2009 (170KB)
Amendment 3 – October 2009 (100KB)
Amendment 4 – February 2010 (410KB)

Volume 9 – Employment and Support Allowance

Chapter 48 – General rules on income (80KB)
Chapter 49 – Earnings of employed earners (644KB)
Chapter 50 – Self-employed earners (180KB)
Chapter 51 – Income other than earnings (604KB)
Chapter 52 – Capital (413KB)
Chapter 53 – WFHRA, WfI and Disqualification (82KB)
Chapter 54 – Special cases & Urgent Case Payments (130KB)

Amendments

Volume 9 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (1.8MB)
Amendment 1 - February 2009 (350KB)
Amendment 2 - June 2009 (400KB)
Amendment 3 - October 2009 (320KB)
Amendment 4 - February 2010 (240KB)

Volume 10 – Benefits for Incapacity, Disability, Maternity and Bereavement

Volume 10 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (1MB)

Chapter 55 – Transitional provisions or the introduction of Incapacity Benefit (81KB)
Chapter 56 – Incapacity benefit (168KB)
Chapter 57 – Severe Disablement Allowance (103KB)
Chapter 58 – Widows Benefits (68KB)
Chapter 59 – This chapter is spare
Chapter 60 – Carer’s Allowance (74KB)
Chapter 61 – Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance (398KB)
Chapter 62 – Maternity benefits (79KB)
Chapter 63 – Bereavement Benefit (48KB)

Amendments

Volume 11 – Industrial Injuries Benefits

Volume 11 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (1.8MB)

Chapter 64 – Background to the Industrial Injuries Scheme (24KB)
Chapter 65 – This chapter is spare
Chapter 66 – Industrial accidents (340KB)
Chapter 67 – Prescribed diseases (591KB)
Chapter 68 – This chapter is spare
Chapter 69 – Disablement Benefits (189KB)
Chapter 70 – This chapter is spare
Chapter 71 – Reduced earnings allowance (450KB)
Chapter 72 – Unemployability Supplement (49KB)
Chapter 73 – Old cases (188KB)

Amendments

Volume 12 – Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pension

Volume 12 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (450KB)

Chapter 74 – This chapter is spare
Chapter 75 – Retirement Pension (368KB)
Chapter 76 – Forfeiture Act 1982 (29KB)

Amendments

Volume 13 – State Pension Credit

Volume 13 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (1MB)

Chapter 77 – Conditions of entitlement, membership of the household and normal amount payable (155KB)
Chapter 78 – State pension credit: additional amounts and special groups (643KB)
Chapter 79 – Payment questions (206KB)
Chapter 80 – Transitional provisions (38KB)
Chapter 81 – This chapter is spare
Chapter 82 – This chapter is spare

Amendments

Volume 14 – State Pension Credit

Volume 14 – Consolidated version (contains all amendments up to and including June 2009) (910KB)

Chapter 83 – Assessed income periods (78KB)
Chapter 84 – Deemed weekly income from capital (275KB)
Chapter 85 – Income other than earnings (206KB)
Chapter 86 – Earnings (311KB)

Amendments